Although I teach visual arts now, I still create some general education materials by request. I was recently asked to come up with a math st...

To celebrate the completion of learning our math facts, we had mini ice cream cones for lunch dessert. Each week we focused on a new set of ...

The students used paper fish manipulatives to solve addition and subtraction word problems. Each student could pick their own numbers to use...

My teammate, Mrs. Guzman, had a great way of having the students show their understanding of equal, or balanced, number sentences. Each stud...

The students used balance scales and manipulatives to demonstrate different ways to make the same sum. This helps them understand two differ...

Mrs. Timms, who plans our math, came up with a fun game for the students to play to practice finding equivalent number sentences. The studen...

After several weeks of freezing temperatures, we have been loving the warmer weather. So, we decided to take math outside. We have been lear...

The students have been working on the strategy of "Making Ten" to help them with larger addition problems. But, in order to do tha...

To review the concept of using doubles to solve addition and subtraction number situations, the students made edible dominoes. They added ic...

To quickly review addition and subtraction fact families, the students created Holly Wreaths. They counted how many leaves and how many berr...

To have a little fun and clean off their desks, we played in shaving cream during the last week of school. The students practiced writing th...

A former teammate of mine had a great idea to have the students create Fact Family Flowers. Each student was given a set of three numbers th...