Understanding Perimeter
1. What’s included when teaching perimeter in 3rd grade? • Solving real-world problems involving perimeter of polygons • Determining when it is necessary to find the perimeter from a given …
Problem of the Month Kindergarten Edition- November
Explain the pattern you see Please send completed problem with students name, teacher’s name, and school through school mail to Jennifer Buckley at Mabry Elementary Route 1 for a chance …
Reinforcing teen numbers using the “Say a Ten Way”
Do your students struggle with identifying and understanding numbers such as eleven and twelve? If so, you are not alone. Teen numbers can be a struggle for kindergarten students for …
Relevant Interactive Exit Tickets
Are you bored using the same old exit tickets with your students? Or the same reflection responses? This website, http://www.classtools.net/ has a variety of interactive tools that teachers can use …
Real Long Term Investigations with Live Feed Cameras
Do your students have wonderings about animals in their natural habitats? Maybe animals not native to Florida? Animals that are dangerous? Animals that they do not visit in our local …
Talk about Engineering
Listen to engineering professionals “dish” on ideas for inspiring engineering thinking in K-12 students. Podcast topics include ways to integrate engineering into the K-12 education, innovative ideas to teach engineering, …
Quick images to represent and compare numbers
During this school year, students have learned to represent numbers using a variety of strategies, including counters, tally marks, number lines and tens frames. Ten frames are a great way …
Round and Round We Go… Where we will stop… At Rounding?
In 4th grade students also use rounding to estimate sums and differences. This strategy is used to make sure that their estimation is reasonable. They used this strategy in 3rd …
There’s More Than One Way to Write a Number
Leaning the base ten system is like learning a new language for our children. Instead of letters there are the digits 0-9. Depending on the placement of the digit determines …
The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round… Has nothing to do with Rounding but this does!
In 4th grade students use strategies to estimate numbers. One strategy for estimation is rounding. This is built off of the foundation they received in 3rd grade. Below is how …
Birds use science tools too?
Blog Guest Authored from Dr. Matthew Bobrowsky Delaware State University Hawaiian crows are tool users Hawaiian crows (Corvus hawaiiensis) have joined the list of a few bird species that use …
Dividing Using the Area Model in Context of Problem Solving
143 students will be attending the school music concert. Each row will seat 13 students. How many rows will be needed for all of the students to have a seat? …
Understanding Multiplication
What is multiplication? Multiplication is when we know the number of groups and the size of the equal groups, but the total amount is unknown. Students are expected to use …
Fact Fluency- What is it?
What is fact fluency? An important goal for third graders is to develop fluency with multiplication and division by the end of the school year. Fact fluency is the ability …
Let’s “Talk” Science
We have all heard the term “accountable talk.” We get it, kids need to turn and talk to each other. They can’t sit and listen to us all day. But, …
Teachable Moments Hurricane Hermine
With our recent unscheduled days off thanks to Tropical Storm Hermine, students will no doubt be asking lots of weather related questions… What is a hurricane and how do they …
Relationships Don’t Have To Be Complicated- The Story of Multiplication, Division, and Place Value.
Once upon a time long long ago… Just Kidding. A long time ago (like yesterday or the day before) a post came out about base ten and place value. If …