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Family Math Night Collaborative Project: Number Skyline

Family Math Night Collaborative Project: Number Skyline

Another fun Family Math Night Collaborative Project! Click the image to the left to get the lesson plan and to check out other great STEAM projects. And be sure to watch the video to find out which multiplication fact is the most difficult for student to learn! Common Core Standards: 2.G.A.2; 2.OA.4; 3.OA.A1; 3.OA.A.4; 3.OA.B.5; 3.OA.C.7; 4.OA.4.1; 4.OA.A.2

The Counting Strip: A Powerful Tool in the preK-1 Classroom

The Counting Strip: A Powerful Tool in the preK-1 Classroom

A simple but powerful tool in the preK-1 classroom is the counting strip.  Different than the number line, a counting strip is made up of 10 to 20 small rectangles and written in each rectangle is a number starting with ‘1’.   Because young students need a lot of opportunities to simply count, the counting strips serves as a great foundation to later work with the number line and 10-frame. Why is the counting strip such a powerful tool? Small…

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Family Math Night Collaborative Project: Tetrahedral Kite

Family Math Night Collaborative Project: Tetrahedral Kite

Here’s my latest Collaborative Project where participants create individual tetrahedrons that are used to build a tetrahedral kite. In the video I describe the steps of the project and show how to tie in the math and science. Click the image to the left to get the lesson plan. For more of these super fun collaborative projects, click  here.  

Developing Math Passion

Developing Math Passion

I was talking to my youngest son over the winter break about the college courses he had signed up for this next quarter.  What he answered surprised me. “I signed up for US Constitutional Issues.  I’m SO excited to take this class.  The professor is amazing!  I took his American History Pre-1865 class last quarter and loved it.  He’s so passionate about the material and makes it exciting because he tells it as a story. Plus, he relates it to…

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