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Fact Families: Add and Subtract within 18

September 20, 2015 By Mercedes Hutchens Leave a Comment

Making connections between addition subtraction is so important.  I love using fact families for this. Fact Family “Turn Around” Dance To introduce fact families, we do the turn around dance.  Kids hold up a fact and we sing as they make a new fact that is true.  It helps them see a great visual and […]

Filed Under: 1st Grade, Fact Fluency, Kindergarten, Math Tagged With: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, Add, Subtract


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Reading and Writing Numbers with Decimals

September 14, 2015 By Mercedes Hutchens Leave a Comment

The concept of less than one is huge in 5th grade.  It shows up in fractions and decimals.  I find it to be very important to give real word examples and manipulatives to solidify the concept of less than one. Before we began talking about decimals, I wanted to make sure my students had the […]

Filed Under: 5th Grade, Math Tagged With: 5th Grade, decimals, Math


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Fact Fluency Screener Freebie

September 12, 2015 By Mercedes Hutchens 2 Comments

In a perfect world, students would enter a new grade level having already mastered all standards from previous grades. Their fact fluency skills would have prepared them for the next grade. In this imperfect world, we can’t reteach every previous standard.  We can, however, make sure our students have their basic fact fluencies.  These standards […]

Filed Under: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, Fact Fluency, Freebie, Math


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Multiply 2 Digit Numbers: 3 Strategies

September 12, 2015 By Mercedes Hutchens Leave a Comment

Multiply 2 digit numbers using 3 strategies. Once you’ve introduced the strategies, students can choose a method that works for their learning style. The following photos come from a PowerPoint I made to help introduce the methods. Traditional Algorithm Most adults are familiar with the traditional method for multiplying multi-digit numbers.  Actually, this method is […]

Filed Under: 5th Grade, Math, Multiplication, PowerPoint Tagged With: Fact Fluency, Multiplication


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Thinglink

September 3, 2015 By Mercedes Hutchens 2 Comments

I linked up my classroom reveal with some linkies today and discovered ThingLink on iTeachSTEM. How cool is this?  Just hover over the picture to read notes on details in the picture. If you didn’t see my Classroom Reveal, check it out here. 

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Classroom Set Up


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