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Power Packs: Building Number Sense in Grades 4/5

Power Packs: Building Number Sense in Grades 4/5

I’m excited to share with you that our Building Number Sense in Grades 4-5 Power Pack is now available. All of our Power Packs are filled with games that teach parents strategies and tools to help their children build strong math skills.



As I mentioned in an earlier post, there have been a lot of changes in mathematics curriculum and pedagogy in recent years and a lot of parents don’t feel as prepared as they’d like to be when it comes to helping their child in math. The power of these Power Packs comes in the integration of strategies and tools that parents use as they play the games with their children. While playing the games, not only are parents learning about the new standards, they’re also gaining strategies they can use to help their child in math.

The strategies and tools in our 4/5 Power Pack are:

  • Partial Products Multiplication
  • Partial Quotients Division
  • Distributive Property for single- and multi-digit multiplication
  • Front End Estimation
  • Fraction Bars
  • Multiplying Fractions on a Number Line
  • Rounding
  • Order of Operations
  • Standard Algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
  • Multiplication Strategies for Multiples of 10

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Power Packs: Developing Number Sense

Power Packs: Developing Number Sense

I’m excited to share with you the newest member of our Family Math Night product line:  Power Packs: Building Numbers Sense in grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5.  These Power Packs are filled with games that teach parents strategies and tools to help their children build strong math skills.  They can be used during your Family Math Night event, as take-home math packs in the classroom, and as classroom math centers. Why Power Packs?  There have been a lot of changes in mathematics curriculum…

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New Family Math Night Collaborative Projects: Fish Bowl and Fraction Quilt

New Family Math Night Collaborative Projects: Fish Bowl and Fraction Quilt

In addition to using the 8 stations in our Family Math Night kits, I usually include a ninth station where I set up a Collaborative Project.  I did the soccer ball project at my first event this year but then created two brand new ones that I’m excited to share with you:  Fraction Quilt and Fish Bowl. In Fraction Quilt, participants cut different colored squares into triangles and use those triangles to design their quilt square. Some of the math they’ll discover along the…

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Family Math Night What Do You Notice? Posters

Family Math Night What Do You Notice? Posters

Last night I held my first Family Math Night event.  It was fabulous.  I had 31 student Station Facilitators – the most ever.  And every one of them did an amazing job.  Here’s a photo of them right before we opened the doors.  Can you find the principal in there? But what I really want to share with you are my upcoming What Do You Notice? posters.  You get to see them before anyone else.  Except for the first one…

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Fun Math Lessons and Projects: Equation Cards and STEAM Bundle

Fun Math Lessons and Projects: Equation Cards and STEAM Bundle

Kids love hands-on activities. They also love working together. So as often as I can, I try to combine the two when creating new lessons that weave in solid math concepts. That’s the idea behind my K-2 and 3- 5 Equation Cards. The Common Core Standards in Mathematics has a heavy emphasis in the elementary grades on the concept of equality in equations. As we know, too many kids think the equal sign means and the answer is… So I…

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