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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7 Tips for Teaching the Partial Quotient Method for Long Division

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 that requires a strong fluency of basic facts for not just for division, but also multiplication, and subtraction,

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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

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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

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Never Take Home Papers to Grade Again! – My 10 Favorite Ways for Students to Self Check

In my previous post, I confessed that I NEVER take home math papers to grade anymore.  The reason is that I have, over time, worked hard to develop ways for all of my math practice work to be self-checked by the students. #1 Coded Joke Worksheets or Task Cards Is it just me, or do

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