laine, Author at Cognitive Cardio Math

Engaging Fraction Games and Activities Your Students Will Love

Ready for some engaging fraction games and activities to help upper elementary and middle school math students master those fraction concepts? In my last fraction post,

Fractions and Fraction Operations in Middle School Math

Are you teaching fraction operations in middle school (or reteaching fraction concepts when they pop up in middle school?) Are you always looking for fraction

$Playing Make One is a great card game for adding fractions.$

Quick and Easy Card Game for Adding Fractions

Students often need extra practice with adding fractions, especially when they aren’t technically learning about it anymore. Those fractions pop up in so many situations! A

$Learn about a quick way to make reviewing fractions easy!$

Reviewing Fractions in Middle School Throughout the School Year

A Quick Way to Practice Fraction Concepts Any Time of Year I have a quick way for you for reviewing fractions and related concepts in

How to Find GCF and Spending Time in Middle School Math

GCF (greatest common factor) and spending ‘too much time’ on math topics. These are the middle school math ideas I’m thinking about today. There were

4 Easy Methods to Teach Finding Equivalent Fractions in the Middle School Math Classroom

Teaching Fractions Series, Week 4: Finding Equivalent Fractions We talked a little bit about equivalent fractions in the Week 2 modeling post, with the idea of

$This blog post details how you can estimate using fraction benchmarks$

Teaching Fractions Using Fraction Benchmarks and Estimation

Teaching Fractions, Week 3: Fraction Benchmarks and Estimation In the fraction standards review section of last week’s fraction post, I briefly summarized the fraction skills

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Using Fraction Models to Help Students Understand Fractions

Welcome to Week 2 of the teaching fractions series. Last week, we talked about basic meanings, and a little bit about fraction models. I suggested a

End of the School Year Activities

End of Year Activities for Upper Elementary and Middle School Are you approaching the end of the school year? Does it feel like the

Teaching Fractions in Middle School: Reviewing the Basics

Welcome to this blog series about teaching fractions in middle school! For the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at various aspects of teaching fractions: