Itsall about getting kids to express their knowledge of mathematics concretely, pictorially, and abstractly – and these story mats will help!
Math in the Real World with Littles: Word Problem Story Mats
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Math in the Real World with Littles: Quantitative Pictures
Pictures with things to count! Use quantitative pictures to help students examine math in real life and think more deeply about numbers.
Math in the Real World with Littles: Creating a Math Friendly Home
Mathematical Practice 2 states that children should be able to “Reason abstractly and quantitatively.” What does that even mean?? This is one of the math practices that really stumps many of the teachers I work with, and rightly so! The practice itself is a little...
Before Inside Out: Developing a Foundation of Visualization and Visual Memory
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.
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