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Fractals are lots of fun. Very helpful for multiplication, exponentiation, place value, and counting in base two, base three, etc., not to ...

Teach with your student's interests in mind.  My first-grade son likes baseball, so when we did ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd...), h...

Christopher Danielson is a math teacher and teacher trainer whose blog is always thought provoking for me as a teacher. He turns the ...

A friend told me the other day that her first-grade son was discouraged about math. He is having a hard time memorizing addition and subtrac...

Our youngest is doing Singapore Math 1 this year and is learning number bonds now. Number bonds, are simply sets of three numbers—two parts ...

Math is largely about recognizing and creating patterns. But sometimes the best way to practice something is doing the opposite. Hmmm. Is av...

Today I gave my kids the "four fours" challenge. Here it is: Find a mathematical expression for all the numbers from zero to twe...

Student assessment can take many forms. One thing I like to do is ask the students to create their own questions, answer them themselves, an...

The most fun and delicious way to learn fractions is with food. You can count, add, subtract, even multiply and divide fractions with food...

Eleven - Fun Card Game for Math Facts "Eleven" is my favorite card game to help students practice addition and subtraction ...

I was recently asked how to teach place value. One fun way to teach about place value is through a variation of the old card game, War. You...

In math, primary students begin with concrete objects, progress through symbols, and arrive at abstract concepts of numbers. A number lin...

A fun, hands-on math game to practice number bonds, or fact families, is with dominoes. First choose a sum that the dominoes must add up to....

It's back-to-school time and children's math skills have become rusty. Try Salute, a quick, fun card game to practice math fact fami...