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  • Introduction to Volume – Manipulatives (starting with perimeter and area)

    Introduction to Volume – Manipulatives (starting with perimeter and area)

    Here is a Jamboard to introduce volume and units of volume. (See photo at very bottom for making a copy to edit.) The students start with building an animal pen and shading in the space inside. The hands on approach and connection to prior knowledge of a fenced in area for animals sets the stage…

  • Introduction to Absolute Value – Distance from Home

    Introduction to Absolute Value – Distance from Home

    Here is a Jamboard to introduce the concept of absolute value (make a copy and you can edit – see photo at bottom of this post). Start with prior knowledge of how many houses a child is from home. Emphasize that the number of houses is positive. Change the setting from a row of houses…

  • Intro to Ratio Tables

    Intro to Ratio Tables

    If you find this helpful, maybe consider making a small donation to help build an accessible playscape for children with disabilities. To introduce ratio tables, I draw upon a relevant prior knowledge for a child. Food, especially pizza is a go to context for me. Use a CRA approach by using manipulatives (concrete), pictures (representational),…

  • Counting Money – Jamboard

    Counting Money – Jamboard

    If you have a student who is learning to count money, here is a virtual set up to do so. I suggest having the student do a test run by moving coins into a box and bills into a box. It is easy to duplicate each item by clicking on the item to duplicate it.…

  • Multiplication with Integers: a Meaning Making Approach

    Multiplication with Integers: a Meaning Making Approach

    I previously tackled the difference between the ” – ” symbol used to represent a negative and a subtraction problem. This post gets into multliplication through the context of buying a Wendy’s frosty. One comment to preface what is presented here. Negative numbers are abstract and challenging for many students. Multiplying by negatives is even…

  • Introduction to 2 Variable Inequalities

    Introduction to 2 Variable Inequalities

    Previously, I shared how I use a Google Jamboard to introduce 1 variable linear equalities with a focus on conceptual understanding. I use the same approach for the 2 variable version (example problem below). A conceptual gap that typically arises is the students do not understand what the shading represents. This is what I am…

  • Intro to Graphing Inequalities

    Intro to Graphing Inequalities

    For years over many settings from middle school to college I have witnessed students struggle to make sense out of inequalities like x < 4. Not only is the concept of an inequality of an inequality challenging, merely reading the symbol is problematic. This post shows an concept based approach to making sense of inequalities.…