Monday, 23 April 2018

Estimation Clipboard - New visual to practice estimation!

The Estimation Clipboard is from Steve Wyborney, the same one who created the SPLAT series and the Interactive Hundred Chart.

This is a great warm-up activity to start your math class and work on students estimation skills. When you download the set, it is in powerpoint and is so easy to use.

Here are the tips from Steve:

Check it out more information below:

http://www.stevewyborney.com/?p=1483

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Puzzle Link

I have gathered some puzzles both holiday and everyday themed puzzles for those first few minutes of math class. These are mostly for grades 4 and up and they are great for building number sense and getting students talking about what them did to solve! Click the link on the side of this page under pages - puzzle ideas.




Check out these NEW puzzles for older students:

**NEW**


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