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Activities for Helping Your Students Master Multi-Step Equations

When teaching multi-step equations in middle school, it’s easy to see why your students might feel overwhelmed. With distributing, combining like terms, moving variables to

Simple Strategies for Teaching Addition With Regrouping in 4th Grade

Addition with regrouping can seem pretty straightforward to us as teachers. Add the ones, regroup if needed, move to the tens, and keep going. For

Practical Tips for Teaching Long Division

Some math topics can feel daunting before you ever start teaching them. Long division can definitely be one of them. Students have to keep track

Strategies for Teaching Multi-Digit Multiplication in 5th Grade

Have you ever watched your students work through a multi-digit multiplication problem and wondered where things started to fall apart? They may know their multiplication

$Halloween Math Activities That Keep Your Students Learning$

Halloween Math Activities That Keep Your Students Learning

I remember those October math classes when my students were already thinking about costumes, candy, and Halloween plans. Their excitement grew as Halloween got closer,

Graphing on the Coordinate Plane: Moving Beyond Ordered Pairs

Your students can plot (−3, 5) without accidentally landing in the wrong quadrant. Success! But graphing on the coordinate plane doesn’t stop once students can

How to Teach Graphing on Coordinate Planes in 6th Grade

Have you ever started teaching coordinate planes and thought your students had it after the first few examples? They can tell you that x comes

How to Teach Absolute Value So Your Students Actually Understand It

Have you ever introduced absolute value only to have your students immediately announce, “You just make the number positive!”? At first, it might seem like

$Math Wheels in the Classroom: Visual Notes for Learning, Practice & Review$

Math Wheels in the Classroom: Visual Notes for Learning, Practice & Review

Have you ever looked around your classroom while your students were taking math notes and realized that everyone was having a completely different experience? One

$Teaching 2nd Grade Math In A Way That Sticks$

Teaching 2nd Grade Math in a Way That Sticks

Teaching 2nd grade math is such a fun stage because your students are ready to move beyond simply finding the right answer. They’re beginning to

$Warm-up Activities for the Middle School Classroom$

5 Warm-Up Activities for Middle School Classrooms

One of the quickest ways for me to see how the rest of the class would go was in the first few minutes after my

$Using Math Wheels in Your Summer School Lesson Plans$

Using Math Wheels in Your Summer School Lesson Plans

When most of us think about summer school lesson plans, we immediately think about remediation, review packets, and trying to squeeze an entire year’s worth

Math Wheels for Note-taking?