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Free Standards for Mathematical Practices classroom posters! I’ve been in “Standards for Mathematical Practices mode” for the last several weeks as I have been working on my Brain Power Math resources. I started to take a serious look at the CC Standards for Mathematical Practices. These 8 Practices can…
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This summer I was a guest blogger for Rachel Lynette’s Minds-in-Bloom. I wrote a post titled “Classroom Finds from the Hardware Store,” and in it I mention the use of tile spacers when teaching adding and subtracting integers; I had several people ask me exactly how I use…
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When it comes to teaching order of operations, we need students to think beyond PEMDAS. One activity that does just this is “Order of Operations Riddles.” This essentially consisted of me having them write down 3 to 4 numbers on their white boards with plenty of space in-between them.…
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