What happens if students can’t even visualize the word, let alone spell it inside out? We live in a “plugged in” culture, where students spend extended periods of time consuming visual images. This severely limits their visual memory or their ability to access and recall images and real-life situations that happened to them.
Wouldn’t it be great if there were blocks that could specifically support play in math and allow our students participate in mathematical self-discovery?
I go into hundreds of classrooms a year, and I find the kindergarten classrooms to be the most interesting. At one time, we thought kindergarten was going to be a great, developmentally appropriate idea for our youngest students. I was part of the planning...
We typically say that Math with Writing should be up and running around 2nd grade, so what does problem solving actually look like in Kindergarten and 1st grade?
The residents of Mathville help 1-5 grade students build a solid foundation of problem solving strategies.