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...
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Visual Models: Demystifying Additive and Multiplicative Comparison Problems
Your students are all part-whole problem pros?? Must be time to enter the world of comparison problems using visual models! Some teachers are confused by additive and multiplicative comparison problems, thinking of them as just part-whole multi-step problems....
Visual Models: Your Secret Weapon for Word Problem Comprehension
Tape diagrams, model drawings, visual models, bar, model, unit bar - different names for the same thing: strategies to help with the comprehension of word problems for students. Sometimes in math, each book or teacher takes a name for a really great idea and...
Place Value: More or Less
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!
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