by Shannon McCartney | Sep 19, 2020 | *Addition, *Decimals, *Place Value, *Subtraction, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5)
Got place value basics? Great! Now, let’s apply those concepts as we go deeper into place value with the idea of more and less! When thinking about “more or less,” we want students to be able to manipulate the place value strips in a way that helps it make sense. For...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 10, 2020 | *Decimals, *Numeracy, *Place Value, Audience - Upper Elementary (3-5)
As we move from numeracy into number sense, one of the most important things we need students to understand is our place value system. Typically, we start off our year learning about place value, reviewing from last year and then building on that. This year...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 3, 2020 | *Number Talks, *Numeracy, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2)
As our numeracy talks start to lean towards actual number talks, let’s look at conservation to 20! Conservation to 20 numeracy talks are appropriate towards the end of the kindergarten year (the last two or three months). In 1st grade, we would start conservation to...
by Shannon McCartney | Aug 27, 2020 | *Number Talks, *Numeracy, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2)
First grade is a big year – the transition from numeracy to number talks! Beginning in PreK, we assess the kinesthetic level of our PreK students and begin to work on conservation to 5. In Kindergarten, we want to work with any students that need...
