Happy Summer everyone. Hadn’t expected to blog much this summer as I’m vigorously preparing for my new teaching assignment. However, something “mathy” showed up and I was asked to review it. Sumboxes is a new subscription company that comes to your door step. It’s essentially math-in-a-box. In all my years of teaching, I haven’t seen “teacher” boxes, let alone …
Cents clothesline
Recently, I was invited into a 2nd grade classroom to work on money (2.MD.8 Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately). The teacher wanted to try out something new to go along with this standard. My suggestion was to try out the clothesline. Let’s see if students could put …
Clotheslines for Math concepts
Using clotheslines as an interactive number line has been a hot routine this year. Last year, I slowly and carefully rolled it out into a few classrooms for use of fractions. This school year, I’ve expanded into more classrooms, but am proud of how my teachers have especially made it work in K-2 classrooms. It’s been extraordinary to see using …