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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…

  • Shopping is Dense with Math Tasks

    I recently worked with a student on an online grocery shopping activity – finding ingredients for mac and cheese. We had the ingredients listed in a column on a Google Doc (allows both of us to edit the doc simultaneously) and then he cropped and pasted a photo of each ingredient (see photo below). The…