Archive for the ‘Teaching Math’ Category
February 22nd, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Slide It! Flip It! Turn It!
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Rotations (turns), reflections (flips), and translations (slides) are concepts we’ve been recently working on in math. I’ve been searching for online [...]
February 15th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Hooked on Puzzles
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. This year my class is hooked on puzzles! Not such a bad thing! They love the Sudoku puzzles and can’t get [...]
February 8th, 2011
by Lisa W in Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Thinking "Beyond One Right Answer"
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. For me, one of the most difficult aspects in teaching math is how to reach all students. There are the perennial [...]
February 1st, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Math Concept Books with Ellen Stoll Walsh
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Looking for an author study with a math theme? Try some of Ellen Stoll Walsh’s books. Balancing Act Beach Lane Books, [...]
January 25th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Using the Open Number Line
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. I teach third grade, and the unit we’re currently working on is one that many students struggle with—money, specifically using mental [...]
January 11th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Money!
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. During a recent unit on money, I came across a great resource to use in the classroom—the United States Mint website. [...]
January 4th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Math in Real Life, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Grocery Store Ads
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Recently, I’ve been saving copies of the weekly grocery ads, the multi-page flyers that come in the Sunday paper. They work great [...]
December 15th, 2010
by Sherry B in Classroom tips and tools, Math Learning, Teaching Math
Teaching Math Vocabulary
In a child’s everyday life, the meanings of words used in their general usage are often very different from their mathematical meanings such as similar, even, odd, multiply, factor, prime, and power. Talk to your students about the difference in meanings when common words have special mathematical meanings. For example: Joseph was scared, even his [...]
December 14th, 2010
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: How Does 1 + 1 = 5?
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. An author and illustrator I admired a lot, David LaRochelle, recently came out with a new book, 1 + 1 = [...]
October 29th, 2010
by David G in Educational Software Market, Teaching Math
DreamBox Learning vs. Other Math Programs
I received the following letter from a parent who is not yet a customer. She writes: I recently tried the DreamBox free trial, and feel it is a great program! However, my husband thinks that there are better programs out there. Can you help me explain to him why DreamBox is better than other math [...]
February 22nd, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Slide It! Flip It! Turn It!
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Rotations (turns), reflections (flips), and translations (slides) are concepts we’ve been recently working on in math. I’ve been searching for online [...]
February 15th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Hooked on Puzzles
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. This year my class is hooked on puzzles! Not such a bad thing! They love the Sudoku puzzles and can’t get [...]
February 8th, 2011
by Lisa W in Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Thinking "Beyond One Right Answer"
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. For me, one of the most difficult aspects in teaching math is how to reach all students. There are the perennial [...]
February 1st, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Math Concept Books with Ellen Stoll Walsh
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Looking for an author study with a math theme? Try some of Ellen Stoll Walsh’s books. Balancing Act Beach Lane Books, [...]
January 25th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Using the Open Number Line
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. I teach third grade, and the unit we’re currently working on is one that many students struggle with—money, specifically using mental [...]
January 11th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Money!
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. During a recent unit on money, I came across a great resource to use in the classroom—the United States Mint website. [...]
January 4th, 2011
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Math in Real Life, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: Grocery Store Ads
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. Recently, I’ve been saving copies of the weekly grocery ads, the multi-page flyers that come in the Sunday paper. They work great [...]
December 15th, 2010
by Sherry B in Classroom tips and tools, Math Learning, Teaching Math
Teaching Math Vocabulary
In a child’s everyday life, the meanings of words used in their general usage are often very different from their mathematical meanings such as similar, even, odd, multiply, factor, prime, and power. Talk to your students about the difference in meanings when common words have special mathematical meanings. For example: Joseph was scared, even his [...]
December 14th, 2010
by Lisa W in Classroom tips and tools, Elementary teachers, Teaching Math
Tuesday Teacher Tips: How Does 1 + 1 = 5?
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day. An author and illustrator I admired a lot, David LaRochelle, recently came out with a new book, 1 + 1 = [...]
October 29th, 2010
by David G in Educational Software Market, Teaching Math
DreamBox Learning vs. Other Math Programs
I received the following letter from a parent who is not yet a customer. She writes: I recently tried the DreamBox free trial, and feel it is a great program! However, my husband thinks that there are better programs out there. Can you help me explain to him why DreamBox is better than other math [...]
