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

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

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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

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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

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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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Self-Determination Theory

Self-Determination Theory

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Over three decades ago, psychologist Edward L. Deci began studying human motivation.  Since then, his research and collaborations with fellow psychologist Richard M. Ryan, combined with the research of countless others, has given us a framework within which we can come to understand human motivation.  This framework, called Self-Determination Theory, developed out of the study of extrinsic (external) and intrinsic (internal) rewards, the two forces that motivate us. So why, specifically, are we motivated to do something?  Self-Determination Theory attributes it…

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Family Math Night Play and Take Station

Family Math Night Play and Take Station

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Continue the learning at home! Send your families home with games they can play over and over. Designed around solid mathematical concepts, these Play & Take games encourage skill practice that’s fun and engaging. Supplement one of our Family Math Night kits or use separately. The station includes 6 different games: 2 games for each level-beginning, intermediate, advanced. Each student will go home with a bag of games and game pieces from their level. For a copy of the Play & Take…

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