While basic addition is introduced in Kindergarten, first, second and third graders often need intervention for addition facts. Having a toolbox full of addition facts strategies will help make the students more comfortable adding which can lead to fact fluency. Addition Facts Strategy: Put Together The very first thing for kids to understand is […]
Write and Wipe Tips and Tricks
Do you get tired of making copies? It can’t just be me! While I love the paperless movement, I resigned myself to the fact that I may not strive to be completely paperless but I do want to use less paper. One of my favorite strategies for using less paper, is using Write and Wipe […]
Multiplication Facts and Strategies
Multiplication Facts are essential background knowledge for upper grade math. Going deeper with Common Core Math can be challenging when your students don’t have a solid foundation in multiplication. Teaching multiplication strategies helps to build a firm foundation for math to come. Have you ever been in the middle of a lesson trying to teach […]
Fact Families: Add and Subtract within 18
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 […]
Fact Fluency Screener Freebie
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 […]