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A Yummy Way to Practice Number Facts

A Yummy Way to Practice Number Facts

How yummy is this activity! Oh yeah…and it’s a fun way to practice beginning number facts. I use the double six dominoes, but it’s easy to diferentiate by providing only dominoes that represent the facts you want students to work on. In other words, if you have a student who is still struggling with adding one to a given number, then use only the dominoes that have one dot (pip) on one side. For example, five dots on one side…

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Adding Coins: How Much is Today Worth?

Adding Coins: How Much is Today Worth?

Here’s a great way to give students practice adding coins. Use the date as their target number and then have them come up with all the different combinations using pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. To turn this into a problem-solving activity, ask them to prove that they found all the combinations. A good way for students to learn how to organize their work is to have them use a table. At first, most kids fill in the table haphzardly which…

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Equivalent Fractions on the Multiplication Matrix

Equivalent Fractions on the Multiplication Matrix

I’d been staring at equivalent fractions for eons and never knew it. Check out this multiplication matrix filled with them! Way cool! Starting simply, look at the first two rows in the upper left.  The number in the first row (numberator) is ‘1’ and the number in the second row (denominator) is ‘2’.  Those numbers represent the fraction 1/2.  All the numbers in the two rows to the right reflect the equivalent fractions. This works for any two numbers picked…

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