Elementary teachers teach it all. Even if you are departmentalized, you work extremely close to your partner teacher and plan integrated lessons. Why not? Science and Math naturally go hand-in-hand. Science is the place in the students’ “now” where they can use the math they are learning. This definitely translates into me having to learn more […]

I have a new obsession…. have you met Thinglink? You can make images interactive…the possibilities are blowing my mind! Below is a picture of a bulletin board in Mrs. Winthers class. I uploaded the photo onto the website and clicked on the picture, much like tagging a picture in Facebook, and I typed in more […]

Here’s how I like to explain it… I had this crazy idea to send out an enormous survey and somehow there were over 100 crazy math teachers in Oklahoma who actually filled it out! Like Jeff Lay, Anthony Purcell, and so many others, I fell in love with NCTM’s Principles to Actions (link) almost immediately. […]

Ever wish you had number cards for numbers larger than 100? Think of all the possibilities of things you could do with these cards….ordering numbers, sorting numbers, creating decimals, creating operations, using them as the answer and having kids make up the problem, etc…. Enjoy!

Edmond Public School’s Elementary Math Content Specialist Robbyn Glinsmann Edmond Public School’s Elementary Math Content Specialist Robbyn Glinsmann has spent this year supporting her teachers with implementing math centers. She graciously agreed to share her trainings and ideas with us and then took us into classrooms to show the very different styles the teachers adapted […]