Measurement and measurement conversions are tricky for everyone…adults included…I’m the worst when it comes to ordering groceries and not paying attention to the size of what I’m buying 🙈Ever bought the world’s smallest tube of toothpaste?! Or the biggest container of dish soap that exists? I have 😂 When it comes to teaching measurement conversions, …
Teaching students how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers can feel like teaching a foreign language…numbers that are part whole and part-part?!? But just like with everything else we teach in math, we want to bring it to life and make sense of the math, not just teach a quick trick. Let’s talk about …
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In part one of how to teach multiplication, we discussed introducing multi-digit multiplication using base-10 blocks and moving students from concrete strategies to pictorial, and then to abstract. It is crucial to make connections along the way! Keeping that theme going we are moving to expanded and standard algorithm. Since the last strategy we focused …
It took me way too many years to figure out that my adding and subtracting decimals unit was also the perfect time to introduce profit to my 4th grade students! Introducing profit now gave my students much needed practice at adding and subtracting decimals, while also spiraling in those pesky financial literacy TEKS. I felt …
