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Managing Students Work while Working with a Small Group
One of the biggest struggles I hear from teachers is managing students while they are working with small groups. How can I make sure that they are on task when I am working with others? For the most...
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Setting Up Your Small Groups for Math Workshop
Setting up your small groups for math workshop involves a little bit of work. While there is no right or wrong way to group your students for small groups (also known as Guided Math), below is what I...
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Planning for Small Groups (Guided Math) as Part of Math Workshop
Now that you know that Math Workshop is a crucial part of your math instruction, I’m here to tell you that Small Groups (also known as Guided Math) are just as important. There are so many components...
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Differentiating Small Groups for Guided Math
For me, Guided Math wasn’t a specific station but rather I pulled from the stations to work with a separate group. This allowed me to constantly differentiate my Guided Math Groups without changing my...
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Frustrated With Teaching Fractions & Need Fraction Activities?
Without a doubt the number one struggle I hear when I talk to teachers is that teaching fractions is a pain. Not that the teachers don’t understand them or know how to teach them but they are such a...
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7 Reasons to Use Math Workshop in Middle School
As challenging as it must be to incorporate our mathematical standards in each year, it is just as challenging to meet the needs of a classroom full of learners. The goal is clear each year, we must...
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Grading and Math Workshop… How Does it Work?
So many of you have messaged me about the struggle when it comes to grading your students work in Math Workshop and how either you HAVE to grade it for students to actually take action or you need to...
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Order of Operations… OH MY! | TEKS 5.4e | TEKS 6.7a
Every year it seems as if working on Order of Operations is a brand new concept for my students, as if it has all of a sudden become a foreign language. I will admit that if you are just looking at a...
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5 Football Activities to Get You Ready to Rumble!
Blue 22, Blue 22… hut, hut! I can’t even begin to think of how many times I’ve heard phrases like that on tv and have no clue what it means! While I may not know a ton about football I sure know that...
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5 Different Ways to Use Solve and Snips
When I began teaching Middle School math, I became apparently aware that my students detested working with word problems. It didn’t matter if I worked them with them, I asked them to show their...
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