Let Ellen introduce this math strategy to your students. 

In this short video, Ellen introduces the PATH Menu. Share with students and then you take over instruction to meet their specific needs.

Bring a seasonal twist to math practice with Bump!—a lively partner game that reinforces mental addition and subtraction skills.

Bring a seasonal twist to math practice with Bump!—a lively partner game that reinforces mental addition and subtraction skills.

Brain Breaks are important! Here is one of our favorites!

Learn about math notebooks and the importance of establishing respect.

In order to assist with student independence and increase organization and efficiency during math time, Allison Behne has put together math binders for her students. Each game board students might use during the math block is included in one convenient binder. 

This video shows Pam outlining with her students the Math Notebook, its purpose and components.

Download this lively partner game that reinforces mental addition and subtraction skills.

It is important to understand the benefits and drawbacks of each as we purposefully plan and craft the questions we will use in our lessons.

Small-group math lessons can be both brief and effective.

Regularly writing in a journal can help students monitor their understanding of mathematical concepts.

Here are three suggestions to help you enhance fluency practice in your classroom.

These 17 titles will enrich math lessons.

Choose the ones you like best, print them out, hand them up, and be ready for PATH instruction.

Check out these inexpensive ideas to provide math manipulatives to students.  

In this video debrief, Gail talks with Pam about the process she goes through with her students as a coach and facilitator in order to bring out the best of these mathematical conversations.

Pam Pogson's students are accustomed to using math manipulatives to solve problems. In this video, she challenges them to use these math tools to help prove their mathematical thinking as well.

Are you tapping into one of these online resources to help your students practice math?

Ready for two new ideas for math writing? Listen in!

These 10 tools that will help your mathematicians grow.

Discover 10 simple ways to enlist parents as partners.

Ellen shares how she encourages and fosters mental math, and what she learns about students in the process. 

A video to demonstrate speaking the math language with students.

Pam's sixth graders have regrouped to discuss the parameters they've set for math conversations within work time. Because of the guiding questions Pam posed, the students have come prepared to share how they will help each other without giving answers, what they will do and sound like when the work is hard (or easy), and what their conversations will sound like when they disagree with each other.

These sixth grade students are meeting in small groups to discuss behaviors and expectations for themselves and each other when working with math.

This tool kit is a great option when you have more students than you do tools or space.

Here is the why behind this math area and one way to store math materials.

Check out these math tool kits and stay for the last minute of the video to learn an important metacognitive strategy called Hand on Your Head.

The tools/manipulatives required for Math Daily 3 will differ depending on the concepts you cover during the year. We have found three primary ways of organizing math tools to be successful.