Our students are in desperate need of repetition. Repetition of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation rules, repetition of math facts and processes, scientific methods, and names and dates of historical events. But, forcing our students to...
Why do kids hate math? Many of us have been there: You transition into your math block to a class full of groans. You ask yourself, “How did I get here? Why do my students hate math?” After many years of teaching math to lots of...
Affiliate link ahead Teaching rounding isn’t for the faint of heart. It involves a concrete understanding of place value, which many fourth grade students are still working on. Using manipulatives, number lines, and interactive notebooks can...
When I was in school, I despised Math. My least favorite part was taking the notes. It was so boring! To my surprise, when I became a 5th grade teacher I ended up really enjoying teaching Math. It was challenging at first to find ways to make it...
We tell our students that equivalent means equal, but do they really know what equal means? Do they know that equal means the same amount, and not necessarily the same number representing that amount? We started leading up to the correct...
It doesn’t get any more high-interest than telling students they’re going to plan and build a CANDY STORE! That’s what we did for the last two weeks in my classroom. We started with a video about the candy store ITSUGAR, which I...