Who loves it when their students know their multiplication facts by heart? ?????????????? We all want to see our students being successful in the memorization of their facts and learning the strategies to help them to learn. Here are a few ways that we practice fact fluency and how I have helped my students to […]
Tag: Math
No Prep SMARTboard Bingo Games
I LOVE playing games in my classroom. Love! We play games for many of the concepts that we learn or for reviewing things that we have already covered. One of our favorite games is SMARTboard Bingo! You don’t even need a smart board to play it on as long as you have a projector in […]
Guided Math – Increase Student Accountability
Guided math is one of my favourite times of the day. It gives me the opportunity to work with my students in a small group setting and allows the other students to build their independent work skills, work with friends and sharpen their math skills through technology. In Guided Math, my students are grouped by […]
5 Tips to Organize and Play Math Games
The series where I share a math game, math worksheets or tips to help make your math time run as smooth as possible! Today I will be focusing on Math tips for busy teachers! Today I was working on some of my math games when a fellow teacher walked into my room. We were talking […]
Math Monday Maddness
Hello friends! Today for ‘MATH MONDAY MADNESS’ I want to share a tip about my favourite math games, tips and ideas. As we all know, dice games can be loud. I have seen many teachers express interest in using small containers for dice so they don’t go flying around. While I do think that is […]
Thinking ‘INSIDE’ The Box
Oooohhhhh Estimation. That is what we are working on. HOW FUN! This is such a fun concept to teach! Estimation stations and hands on activities GALORE! Today, I tried something different with them. We estimated how many ‘objects’ would fit into a tape shape! Well, my kids loved this activity. We did as a scoot […]
Scooping up addition
So, in room 20 we are supposed to be learning double digit addition. Wellllllll… I have to admit I taught a tad off the curriculum these past couple days. (Sorry parents). Since spring is here, and adding can be a boring, difficult to learn task, I started slow. We learned the process and how to […]
Hey Human! Little Monster Problem Cards Game
In my class, I play a game called ‘My Friend Jeremy’. Here’s how it works. I start off by saying to my class: “So, the other day, I was walkin’ down the street! Along the way I saw my friend Jeremy! He said “Hey Miss Pich! The answer is 61!” So I said, “61? […]
Little Monster Math!
Ahh, the best day of the week. MONDAY! Yes, I know most people think of Monday as the hardest and worst day of the week, but I think of Monday as a fresh start to planning and prepping for the week. Last week, I created and posted my Little Monsters Addition and Subtraction package. This […]
How I Setup my Guided Math
Click here for my Math Games for Guided Math workstations – Sorted by Concept Ohhh guided math. How I love you. This year my school has had a giant focus on math. We have been doing a lot of PD days learning the text book and figruing out how to make it work in our […]