by Shannon McCartney | Dec 17, 2020 | *Math Manipulatives, *Multiplication, *Place Value, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2)
So, your students have acted out multiplication kinesthetically, they understand “groups of,” and now they’re ready for more! It’s time to help students connect what they’ve learned from their kinesthetic experience to the concrete by creating an exploratory...
by Shannon McCartney | Dec 10, 2020 | *Math Practices, *Motor Skills (Fine and Gross), *Multiplication
Multiplication isn’t a new topic for our blog – we’ve talked about our multiplication journals and lots of games like Multiplication Bump! or Multiplication Speed! But, today, we’re going to rewind to the very beginning – how to introduce multiplication!...
by Shannon McCartney | Nov 19, 2020 | *Early Intervention, *Multiplication, *Word Problems, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5)
As students move into middle school, they’ll need those word problem skills you’re teaching them right now in elementary school! This is a theme for me this week as I’ve been helping my son, Connor (now in 6th grade), with his math. I watched him on his journey...
by Shannon McCartney | Nov 12, 2020 | *Math Games, *Technology, Audience - K-5
Education has certainly been inundated with technology during 2020, and most educators have had to rewire their thinking about technology as they look for ways to deliver instruction through virtual learning platforms. It’s funny to look back at the development of my...
by Shannon McCartney | Nov 5, 2020 | *Addition, *Decimals, *Division, *Fractions, *Math Games, *Math Manipulatives, *Math Workshop, *Multiplication, *Place Value, *Subtraction, *Technology, Audience - K-5
Doesn’t that sound amazing? Having virtual manipulatives at your fingertips, especially considering where we are in today in education (face-to-face, hybrid or even in-class), can certainly take your teaching of mathematical concepts to the next level. In...
