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12 Kahoot Games to Practice Multiples and Multiplication
As of this writing, I have created over 160 Kahoot games for my students. There are lots of reasons to love Kahoot. Not only is it great review and fun for kids, but it is wonderful for get an overview of how well your class understands a skill. Without question, Kahoot is a staple in…
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Kahoot Games to Practice Counting Money and Making Change
As of this writing, I have created over 150 Kahoot games for my students. There are lots of reasons to love Kahoot. Not only is it great review and fun for kids, but it is wonderful for a quick assessment for teachers. Without question, Kahoot is a staple in my classroom and something we play…
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Addition and Subtraction Kahoot Review Games
As of this writing, I have created over 150 Kahoot games for my students. There are lots of reasons to love Kahoot. Not only is it great review and fun for kids, but it is wonderful for a quick assessment for teachers. Without question, Kahoot is a staple in my classroom and something we play…
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A Fun Way to Practice Ordering Numbers and Number Forms
In all honesty, ordering numbers can be a ho-hum skill to practice… While playing a game on my phone one evening, I got a great idea for a way to spice up practice with ordering numbers while at the same time practicing place value number forms. Nothing makes my teacher teacher go aflutter like hearing…
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10 Kahoot Games for 4th Grade Fractions Practice
As of this writing, I have created over 150 Kahoot games for my students. There are lots of reasons to love Kahoot. Not only is it great review and fun for kids, but it is wonderful for a quick assessment or teachers. Without question, Kahoot is a staple in my classroom and something we…
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12 + 1 Place Value Kahoot Games
As of this writing, I have created over 200 Kahoot games for my students. As a teacher, there are lots of reasons to love Kahoot. It is wonderful for formative assessment and quick review. It generates tremendous excitement and engagement among students. Without question, it is a staple in my classroom and something we…
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GimKit to the rescue
I have a bit of an addiction to game based learning websites. I use Kahoot almost daily. I use Quizizz several times a month. Lately I’ve been tinkering with the new kid on the block – GimKit. My students love it. I always like to think of the development of edutech as stages of…
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How to Get Your Students to Watch Your Instructional Videos
So I saw this meme come through on Facebook and found myself shouting loudly, “YES!” One of the most frustrating problems I experienced with distance learning was that some students were trying to simply do the assignment before doing any of the activities leading up to it. Predictably, this led to them often failing…
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Teaching Prime and Composite Numbers
The Prime Numbers Rap. If you use no other song on this list, use this one. Trust me. It is guaranteed to help your children quickly memorize the definition of a prime number (no easy task) and at least the first 5 primes (which are, importantly, necessary for testing if any number is a prime.)
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7 Tips for Teaching the Partial Quotient Method for Long Division
As a teacher of 4th grade for over 30 years, I can tell you that long division is easily the most challenging 4th grade math calculation your students will learn. It involves a complicated (sometimes confusing) algorithm that requires a strong fluency of basic facts for not just for division, but also multiplication, and subtraction,…