Math organization

I am always on the lookout for more effective organization in the classroom....so I'm going to write several posts that hopefully remind me to keep up with it! I allow students to re-take any summative assessment. My school policy states that students are allowed only one re-assessment on a summative per nine weeks (we have around 4 summative assessments per nine weeks). In our school district, summative assessments are worth 70% and formative assessments are worth 30% of their overall…

Teaching math can be a lot of fun, especially when you use math workshop. Manipulatives, centers, games, project based learning . . . there are so many great ways to engage students and help them understand math concepts. But figuring out how to store all those math materials can be overwhelming. So, today I’m sharing my best tips for how to organize your math materials.

As a teacher, there is so much to do when it comes to setting up the classroom, that it is hard to know where to start! Over the course of my first six years of teaching middle school math, a few of these classroom projects have become staples in my classroom. In this post, I plan to share a few of these ideas. (1) Assignment Notebook Board The first thing my middle school students do (or should be doing!) when they come to class is fill out their assignment notebooks. With some ruler tape…

GUIDED MATH ORGANIZATION - Let's get organized! Head on over to read all about how I organize my classroom and lesson plans for a smooth Guided Math block!

Why use math sorts? Discussions Differentiation Aligned to the standards No-prep FUN! 1. Discussions We constantly tell students to show their work or explain their thinking. Using math sorts weekly will give students practice in putting their thinking into words. Your students will use math vocabulary as they explain how they sorted their cards. They […]

Save time by incorporating a Grading Station into your math center routine in your elementary classroom! When students complete a math center with a recording page, they can take finished work to the grading station. They get to be the “teacher” and check their own work! This is a huge time-saver for me and also helps my students to be accountable! Read more to learn about how I set-up my Grading Station Tub for math centers, how I use this as assessment, and grab the grading station…

An organized classroom is a place where students can focus, feel appreciated, and navigate their learning environment with ease. Setting up organization systems that can be maintained by you and your students is essential to creating an organized space that lasts. This is especially true for spaces in your classroom that receive heavy use on a daily basis, or have many moving parts, like your math manipulatives and math games.

After I created and posted my Addition Timed Test Program , I had a lot of teachers reach out to me to see if I could create something simil...

It's been quite some time since I've blogged about Math Workshop. As one of my school's math coaches, I'm fully immersed in all things math while teaching full time throughout the year. I'm lucky enough to work alongside teachers, host coaching cycles, write curriculum for my school and present PD sessions, all while teaching a class of my own. It helps my mindset and perspective while in my role as a coach and I'm hoping it makes me more realistic and approachable to my colleagues. This…

FREE math organizational resources! Organize your guided math materials, lessons, centers, and stations. Easy way to keep all your guided math materials together. Ideas on storage and keeping up with all the things! To learn more about "Organizing Curriculum", visit www.tunstallsteachingtidbits.com

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I love finding first day of school math activities! These back to school activities are perfect for middle school or high school math. Perfect for pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, or pre-calculus!

Revolutionalize your math block by splitting it in half. This post walks you through how I schedule a 75-minute math block and 90-minute math block incorporating number sense, daily word problems, technology, and small group instruction. Your centers activities can be changed out much less, saving you time lesson planning each week. This elementary math block format is perfect for second, third, and fourth grades. #1stgrade #2ndgrade #3rdgrade #4thgrade

Math centers were daunting and stressful for me as a new teacher. It would take me hours to shift students around trying to make it where every student went to every station. I often stopped mid plan and was unprepared for the week ahead. Check out my blog post Setting Up Math Centers That Work to learn how fluid groups, abundant and standard based resources and consistency will help you when setting up math centers in the future.

Fourth grade math centers for the entire year. Add these math games to your math workshop math stations for extra practice. There are 3 games per math topic. They all follow the same format, so students will build a strong routine. Review all common core math standards and provide plenty of practice to master all 4th grade math standards. Use as morning work or to spiral review math standards during math rotations. #4thGradeMath #MathGames #Math #4thGradeMath #MathWorkshop #MathCenters

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Teachers: Looking for a hands-on approach to teaching math common core standards. My students have had great success with interactive notebooks. They love using their journals to refer back to for different math concepts and skills, including place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, decimals, measurement, and geometry. Perfect for upper elementary grades. These Interactive Notebook activities are available for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

Explicitly connecting our teaching to the achievement categories in the Ontario Mathematics Curriculum in a way that allows students to understand it is

Looking for the best way to Organize Your Math Games? This blog post describes 12 methods for organizing math games, and all of them are simple and streamlined. They'll improve your overall classroom organization, and they'll make your classroom environment feel safer for students because they're in a tidy space. Don't miss this detailed information about these organization tips for math games.

I have been using interactive math notebooks in my classroom for as long as I can remember. Math notebooks are a great place for students to take notes, record definitions and sample problems, and practice new skills. They are perfect to use for direct instruction and guided practice, in small groups or as a whole class.…