Imagine with me. It’s transition time. Your math block is well under way. You’ve engaged students in a quick warm-up to gently get the left sides of their brains moving. They’re (finally!) excited about math. You’re just wrapping up the day’s group lesson and moving towards math centers. It’s ... read more
How to: Math Centers Planning & Organization
So, once your students are all warmed up and pumped for math...what happens next? Of course you’ll often have a quick group lesson, learning new skills or reviewing old ones. But, as with literacy, new math skills should be taught and practiced many times in many different contexts before students ... read more
Math: Let’s Warm Up!
As educators, we spend a lot of time and effort working on fluency for our students in literacy. We focus on getting them to certain reading levels, and locking those sight words in their brains for immediate recognition. Often with all this focus on literacy, we often (inadvertently) forget about ... read more
