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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 […]

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

Hello teachers! Just a reminder that Teachers Pay Teachers is running a great cyber sale next week. For these two days, every product in my store will be 25% off.   This is the best time ever to take advantage of my many newly bundled products, which I try to keep at an already rock

Hey Y’all! It is TpT’s annual Teacher Appreciation sale and it is time to treat yourself to something nice!  You deserve it!  As we wind down the school year, consider checking out some of my fun end of the year Math review activities.  Some of these are designed for test prep, but they also work

Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me When I have flown Time management was not something that came naturally to me when I first started teaching. After 20+ years of teaching, I can’t say I’ve mastered it, but I have learned a few things. Here’s my 2¢ on the

As a teacher of 4th grade for over 20 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 and requires a strong fluency of basic facts for not just for division, but also multiplication, and subtraction,