New Math WorkStation

Here is a picture of a new Math Work Station I introduced this week. In the past we played this game with 5 chips and I noticed that we were getting bored with 5 so I increased the game to 10. The children shake ten chips in a cup and record how many are red [...]

Math Common Core Standards

I shared in a post last week, how to access the basic scope and sequence we are using in Indiana.  I created a document back in June last year that I carry with me everywhere to help me wrap my head around what I’m supposed to teach when.  When I created this document, we (I) [...]

Common Core Standards

I’ve had lots of questions since I last posted about the order of the Common Core Standards.  I’m not sure if Indiana set them in this order or not, this is just the order we were instructed to teach them in. If you visit the Indiana DOE’s Learning Connection site, you can find the Common [...]

Race to 10

Here is a simple game I came up with this week (I’ve probably read about it somewhere a long time ago and then just remembered it, so I’m not sure if I was the one who actually made it up!!   ).  We called it Race to 10.  I created a simple 10 frame in [...]

Math Common Core Standards Grant

I wrote a grant not too long ago and had it funded last week.  Here are the materials that we received:   Kristen

Math Common Core Standards

For the last day and a half, I’ve been attending workshops about the new national common core standards for math.  In our state (IN), Kindergarten will be implementing them in the 2011-2012 school year and a grade will be added every year there after for the next few years. This caused us to have to [...]