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As a little introduction lesson to number lines, I decided to do a little movement activity. First I had the students help me fill in a number like that was missing some numbers on it. Then, we did a short activity on greater than/less than on the table. To do this, I would pick two…

One significant goal for a lot of my little ones is learning how to tell time, and more importantly, learning how to find elapsed time {BIGGIE}. The concept of time in general just baffles them. Although it is in the common core, a lot of text books used in schools do not have anything on…

Today I introduced my Place Value PROs Math Stations to my 3rd grade students and they LOVED it. I split the kids up into partners to complete the different tasks, but this could very well work with larger groups because each activity has at least 20 task cards to complete. We will rotate groups tomorrow, and…

Right now, a lot of my students are working on place value and the different number forms. To make this process a little more fun, I tried to use a more hands-on approach versus forcing them to write endless expanded and word form problem after problem. We practice a lot with base ten blocks, but I was…

As I’ve already said, we are going to start hitting addition and subtraction word problems hard in my math classes since the students really struggle with them. I already discussed how we’ve been using white boards and markers to practice here, but my little cuties often forget to write down the correct information, and then…

Problem #1: My 3rd and 4th grade students are still using their fingers, the 100s chart, or number line to add even the most basic addition problems {ex. 3 + 4} Since the beginning of this school year, I’ve noticed that my students can’t quickly solve basic addition problems with sums up to 20 and…