Using Challenges to Get Students Thinking
Using challenges or puzzles at the beginning of a lesson will help engage students in the lesson and learning process. Challenges like this not only engage students in the learning process, but they also provide a quick informative assessment that can help you determine what students need.
Building Addition and Subtraction Skills
When tutoring a student who struggles with regrouping and multi-digit addition, the tutor needs to consider the skills the student didn’t solidify in a previous grade. This blog post briefly reviews how addition and subtraction skills build from kindergarten through sixth grade and where possible problems may arise.
Tutoring and Math: Vertical Alignment and Sequencing Numbers
Properly sequencing and plotting numbers on a number line is dependent upon foundational skills learned in earlier grades. Students who are unable to compare fractions to sequence and plot them accurately will need interventions on understanding what a fraction is and how it expresses its value.
Holiday Learning Strategies, part 2
Using a connect five game during interventions to review foundational math concepts for multi-digit multiplication. This is a great way to support student learning and review key concepts.
Holiday Learning Strategies
Halloween is coming up.
As a Special Educator and teacher I find that students need a bit of leeway on the days leading up to, the day of, and the day after Halloween. I like to use those days to review concepts previously covered by playing games.