Dividing with area models and partial quotient is a major part of fourth grade standards. Confession: when I first moved to fourth grade, I had no clue how to divide with an area model or partial quotient! After teaching it to myself, I hated it! Dividing with area models and partial quotient didn’t click for […]
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Is it crazy that I get excited when I begin teaching multi-digit multiplication? Probably. I’ll own it. I think it’s so fun because it’s the first topic I teach that is completely new to students. Place value, rounding, addition, and subtraction are all built off of previous grades. Multi-digit multiplication is brand new. Yes, this
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I love finding ways to tap into my students’ passions and interests, and football is definitely at the top of many of my students’ list. This football math project meets all of my requirements for a good lesson, AND my students think it is the coolest thing ever. I actually got the idea from one
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If you’ve spent much time on my website or follow me on social media, you know that I am passionate about high quality math instruction. I’m a firm believer in balanced instruction with conceptual lessons, problem based learning, and an appropriate amount of skills practice and review. Over the years, I’ve developed third grade and fourth
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These distributive property worksheets and activities can simplify teaching the distributive property. Teaching the distributive property of multiplication can be quite challenging, but the concept is SO important for student as then begin more advance math concepts. As a third grade teacher, I often felt like my students weren’t quite developmentally ready for the distributive
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This Division Escape Room Lesson (you can find it here) is one of my favorite culminating activities to my 4th grade division unit. It incorporates so many skills and concepts into a fun and exciting format for students. I consider any lesson where students are so engaged and motivated that they don’t realize just how
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Multiplying by multiples of ten and hundred sounds like it should be an easy concept to teach, but it’s not. In fact, many students struggle with this standard. It’s such an important concept for students to understand, because students will apply this concept in their multiplication and division standards. In this post, I share some
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Over the years, as I’ve refined my math instruction, I’ve tried to share as much as a can through blogging and videos. However it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to unpack everything through blogging and casual videos. This is the primary reason I developed Math Masterminds. I wanted to help teachers streamline their math professional
I’ve worked on A LOT of resource updates this summer, so I wanted to share my corresponding pacing guides with you. You can read more about how I develop these pacing guides here. As always, it’s important to remember that this is just a guide. I try to never let the pacing guide dictate my
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Teachers agree that memorizing multiplication facts is such a challenging part of elementary school. In fact, I surveyed more than 20,000 teachers about their biggest challenge in math instruction. The most overwhelming response was that their students don’t know their math facts. This issue is a not a new trend. Math facts, especially memorizing multiplication
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