One of my favorite concepts to teach is multiplying by multiples of 10's and 100's. Once I teach students The Meaning of Multiplic...

Multiplication has come a long way since we were in elementary school. We were handed a list of facts and told to memorize. I don't thin...

In my previous post, I discussed different ways of teaching addition with regrouping. One strategy I teach is the Give and Take Method. It a...

Wow! We have come along way from when we were growing up and learning how to add. When we were learning facts, we were just told to memorize...

  Place Value is the most important concept students learn in any grade. Without the mastery of place value, students will struggle wit...

"Take a Penny" is a 2 step strategy that allows students to subtracting across zeros without having to go through the complicated ...

Estimation! I love teaching estimation. It is so much fun when students realize how much easier it is to estimate the answer to two numbers ...

      My idea for Math Confusion came from the fitness craze, Cross Fit . The goal with Cross Fit is to do many different activities in ...

To go along with my Wonderful Problem Solving PowerPoint presentation, I have created a packet of Key Word goodies. This packet has every...

Third grade begins multiplication. Whereas in years past, students only had to learn their multiplication facts, they are now required to ta...

One of the keys in problem solving is to understand the fundamental properties of operations. I swear, I would give anything for kids to und...

Did you know that the majority of math questions on standardized tests are word problems? Did you know that many kids who are low and readin...

Any time someone thinks about third grade, they think about two things: cursive writing and multiplication. Now, in my opinion, cursive writ...

I don't know about y'all, but in all my years of teaching I have yet to find something as difficult for students as subtraction. It ...

Ask any elementary teacher what the number one thing students need help with in math and you will hear a resounding MATH FACTS. Knowing basi...

After teaching my unit on fractions, I move on into teaching decimals. It just makes sense because they are both used to represent parts of ...