Do you remember the days of all your close friends huddled around a cootie catcher, moving your thumbs and index fingers while chanting? First to spell out a color, then counting, and finally waiting anxiously, hoping to reveal a fortune assuring you of wealth and ...
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Repeated addition with arrays & equal groups
Objective: Students will build simple arrays and equal groups to build a conceptual understanding of multiplication.
Vocabulary: multiplication, array, equal group
Warm up Questions:
Multiplication is adding groups that are the same size.
There are 3 ...
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Must Have Tools for Teaching Multiplication
This is a quick blog post to share with you some of my favorite resources for teaching multiplication.
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Tri-Folds: Multiplication Strategies
This Multiplication Fluency Bundle Includes 5 Steps:
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Fractions on Number Lines
Objective: Students will use unit fractions to build non-unit fractions on number lines, and students will use unit fractions to locate points on a number line.
Vocabulary: numerator, denominator, fraction, unit fraction, whole, equal parts, partitions
Warm up ...
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Partitioning Shapes: Area Model
Objective: Students will practice working with non-unit fractions. They will partition area model shapes to develop an understanding of fractional parts of a whole.
Vocabulary: fraction, unit fraction, numerator, denominator
Warm up Questions:
Unit fractions ...
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Find Perimeter of Quadrilaterals
Objective: Students will practice finding perimeter and use their understanding of the 4 operations to answer questions about perimeter and missing side lengths.
Math Vocabulary: perimeter, quadrilateral, square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, side, length, ...
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