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Book of the Month: Pigs on the Move: Fun with Math and Travel
This month was difficult to choose just one book to showcase, but I decided to share with you a story called, Pigs on the Move Fun with Math and Travel, by Amy Axelrod. The Pigs are excited to be traveling … Continue reading
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Happy Thanksgiving!
As we begin to enter the holiday season, know that you can always find fast and easy ways to integrate math. For example, this site: http://grandmaskite.com/d2dscarecrow.html is an animated dot-to-dot activity that can have our K-1 keiki practicing their counting skills up … Continue reading
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How Does Model Drawing Help Me?
Today I posed the following question to Ms. Everett’s class in regards to Model Drawing: How has using model drawing helped you when solving word problems? You see this was the same question I had asked them about 4 weeks … Continue reading
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Book of the Month: Greg Tang Books
This month I decided to focus not just on a particular book, but rather on an author. So this month we shall call it our “Author of the Month”. After much thought, I decided to showcase Greg Tang for several … Continue reading
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Solving Word Problems with Model Drawing
Yesterday I was able to continue my lessons on the strategy of using the model drawing process to solve word problems in Ms. Everett’s third grade class. Model drawing consists of 8 steps that students consistenly follow regardless of the … Continue reading
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