Skip Counting—How To Help Kids Piece It Together
Even when kids “get” skip counting there are often points where they get stuck. Here are 3 common skip counting barriers and how students can get past them.
How To Make Skip Counting Homework Easy
Getting kids to be confident skip counters takes a lot of practice. Here are my 3 favorite skip counting activities to send home.
2-4-6-8 These Skip Counting Activities Are Really Great
Having a good mix of games and activities gives students repeated, but fun, skip counting practice. Try out one of these skip counting activities today!
4 Cool Ways To Practice Telling Time
Learning to tell time is essential for kids. If you’re working on telling time with your students, check out these practice ideas.
How To Teach Math With Measurement Games
Do your measurement lessons measure up? I find measurement can be a bit of a neglected though an essential area of math. From checking lengths with...
How To Teach Shapes With Simple Games
Circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon … are you teaching shapes? Students...
How To Make Mental Math Fun
Last week I talked about why mental math matters and how to teach 5 key mental math skills. Now I want to share a few games that my students love...
Why Mental Math Matters And How To Teach It
Why can’t we just use a calculator? Can’t the computer do it? Do you ever hear this from students who don’t want to do math? They have a point....
How To Teach Skip Counting When Kids Get Stuck
A couple of weeks ago, I talked about how to introduce skip counting in the classroom. Most kids pick up on skip counting pretty quickly, especially...
