There are so many different techniques and tricks teachers use to help students learn how to solve word problems. The possibilities are truly endless. Of course, it seems everyone has difficulty solving word problems at every grade level and even into adulthood. How many of us have tried to do the ... READ the POST
How to Get Your Students to Love Division
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics." - Albert Einstein. If you have taught math to kids, you know this quote is accurate. If math activities are fun and engaging, your students are all in, and you can teach them just about any math concept. With that in mind, I found out how ... READ the POST
6 Questions to Ask About Math Jeopardy
Sometimes it's hard to keep students engaged in math lessons. Third-grade math is a pretty significant shift for students. This is the year they learn multiplication, division, and a lot of fractions. They inevitably grow sort of bored and weary of the day-to-day math instruction. That's when you ... READ the POST
3 Quick and Easy Ways to Boost Student Engagement
The opposite of student engagement is boredom. You know it when you look out at your classroom of students, and they are fidgeting, yawning, staring out the window, and talking to each other while you are presenting a lesson. It's frustrating, isn't it? You need to cover important standards or ... READ the POST
How to Improve Social Studies Reading Comprehension
Don't you wish there was one reading strategy that would unlock the secret to reading comprehension? In a perfect world, there would be - but instead, we teachers continuously strive to find and learn new ways to help our 3rd-grade students improve their reading comprehension. In the ... READ the POST
How to Use Close Reading Strategies with Social Studies Text
I almost titled this post "How to Steal Time to Teach Social Studies," but I realized that not every school district is as short-sighted as mine by not giving Social Studies equal time in the curriculum. Whether you have a dedicated Social Studies block in your schedule or not, pairing close reading ... READ the POST
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