An educator since 1979, Tammy L. Jones has worked with students from first grade through college. Currently, Tammy is consulting with individual school districts in training teachers on strategies for making content accessible to all learners. Writing integrations as well as literacy connections are foundational in everything Tammy does. A variety of resources are offered for mathematics Pre-K through 12 as well as several that are interdisciplinary. Electronic trainings are also offered.
An educator since 1979, Tammy L. Jones has worked with students from first grade through college. Currently, Tammy is consulting with individual school districts in training teachers on strategies for making content accessible to all learners. Writing integrations as well as literacy connections are foundational in everything Tammy does. A variety of resources are offered for mathematics Pre-K through 12 as well as several that are interdisciplinary. Electronic trainings are also offered.
NCTM describes “representation” as referring to both a process and a product. So mathematical representations include all the different ways that students depict their thinking as well as the processes they use to put their thinking into those forms. Representations have often been taught as an end in and of themselves, most as essential elements in supporting students’ understanding. When students gain access to mathematical representations and the ideas they express they acquire a set of tools that significantly expand their capacity to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.
This activity takes the number 6 and represents it through a concrete manipulative, the written symbol, a verbal symbol, a diagram, picture, graph, drawing, or table, and an algebraic representation with a mathematical sentence. There is also a contextual problem for the students to work through. There are 5 sets of cards, each with 6 representations with facilitation notes.
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Primary mathematicians need opportunities to work with data. Making connections to measurement and literature support building deeper understandings. Five activities, some with literacy connections, five formative assessments, and two investigations are provided.
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Students need many experiences with estimating in their early years. Gumball Estimations offers students an opportunity to connect literacy while kinesthetically engaging in estimation experiences. A variety of suggested facilitation questions are provided as well as extensions to the main activity. Blackline masters are provided for use as needed. Note that the Gumball Estimations Mat is formatted to print on 11X17 paper to facilitate working with small hands.
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Whether a young mathematician is developing number sense or a secondary mathematician is developing functional fluency, multiple representations play a pivotal role. The Multiple Representation Activities resources are available to support building these fluencies. Also, using an adaptation of the classic Frayer model applied to mathematical representations supports building these fluencies at the point of instruction.
The Multiple Representation Model can be used as a note-taking guide, as an assessment probe, or as a spiraling review. Five representations are given for each model. There is also a set that is given two per page to facilitate use in The Mathematicians’ Notebook. Another representation resource is the Multiple Representation Rectangle. This allows several spaces in which students can work with the various representations. There is also a two per page version, although the regular version does fit in The Mathematician’s Notebook.
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NCTM describes “representation” as referring to both a process and a product. So mathematical representations include all the different ways that students depict their thinking as well as the processes they use to put their thinking into those forms. Representations have often been taught as an end in and of themselves, most as essential elements in supporting students’ understanding.
When students gain access to mathematical representations and the ideas they express they acquire a set of tools that significantly expand their capacity to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena. This activity takes the number 10 and represents it through a concrete manipulative, the written symbol, a verbal symbol, a diagram, picture, graph, drawing, or table, and an algebraic representation with a mathematical sentence. There is also a contextual problem for the students to work through. There are 5 sets of cards, each with 6 representations with facilitation notes.
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Writing is one of the parts of language that students are developing. For some students, ESL/ELL for example, what they know about a topic may exceed their ability to communicate it through the written word. Students learn to write by writing. Writing needs to be original thought, not just copying something that someone else wrote. Therefore it is imperative that opportunities are provided often for students to engage in writing about a variety of content.
Students’ writing should make sense and be complete. Writing About offers a collaborative opportunity for small groups of students to work individually first to write about a concept and then to come together and putting their individual work into a paragraph about the topic.
A word cloud of Earth's Systems associated words is given as a prompt for words and ideas. Facilitation notes are provided as well as student activity sheet. This is a good activity for struggling students and ESL/ELL who may need some support in writing.
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One Duck Stuck, by Phyllis Root, is a beloved children’s book. Not only does the story engage children it can also serve as a foundation for many mathematical investigations for primary mathematicians. Children benefit from using Five Frames and Ten Frames while learning basic number facts. Making ten is one of the key strategies young mathematicians need to experience as they are developing fluency with addition and subtraction.
Students should have many opportunities to work with composing and decomposing numbers in a variety of ways. Connecting to a familiar story makes these activities more engaging for students. “How many?”, building and filing five frames and ten frames, and composing and decomposing numbers are all covered in these activities.
Questions are provided that can be used during the development of the activity to determine the desired focus of the lesson. It is very important that young mathematicians understand that numbers are quantities represented by numerals, pictures, numerals, etc.
Materials are listed for each of the activities. The 11 pages include both black line masters as well as color masters have been provided. Suggestions for preparing the materials have been noted as well to facilitate making classroom sets for long term use.
One Duck Stuck, by Phyllis Root, is a beloved children’s book. Not only does the story engage children it can also serve as a foundation for many mathematical investigations for primary mathematicians. These lessons draw from the counting and cardinality standards. Children love playing with dominoes. These two sets of dominoes offer children a chance to practice their subitizing skills as well as strengthening their sense of number. Dominoes are great for young children because they are so simple to use.
Questions are provided that can be used during the development of the activity to determine the desired focus of the lesson. It is very important that young mathematicians understand that numbers are quantities represented by numerals, pictures, numerals, etc.
Materials are listed for each of the activities. The 42 pages include both black line masters as well as color masters have been provided. Suggestions for preparing the materials have been noted as well to facilitate making classroom sets for long term use.
36 pages of blackline and color masters
4 pages of facilitation notes, extensions, and sample questions
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Students at all levels need many experiences with estimating. This second collection of fifteen full-color photographs can be used as journal prompts, discussion starters, bell ringers, or for centers, small groups, or learning stations. These pictures have been chosen and formatted with estimation in mind but serve many other academic topics as well as opportunities for making meaning through writing.
Pictures include animals, plants, and inanimate objects and holidays. Facilitation notes are provided.
15 colorful images
3 pages of facilitation notes
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Students at all levels need many experiences with estimating. This third collection of fifteen full color photographs can be used as journal prompts, discussion starters, bell ringers, or for centers, small groups, or learning stations. These pictures have been chosen and formatted with estimation in mind but serve many other academic topics as well as opportunities for making meaning through writing.
Pictures include animals, plants, and inanimate objects and holidays. Facilitation notes are provided.
15 images
3 pages of facilitation notes
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There is a need, a time, and a place for building procedural fluency no matter what mathematical topics are being studied. However, moving students beyond procedural mathematics to developing true understandings of the mathematics with which they are engaging requires students to think.
The Farmer Jones tasks for high school students requires students to investigate the relationships between the tangram pieces while working an open-ended problem. One activity requires students to maximize income and profit while the second asks for a minimization. Developing different options and presenting those options is required. Even though this is a contrived problem, students can make it more authentic by researching the crops and livestock options in their geographic region. Questions that move the learning forward, as well as extending the learning and reflecting are provided in addition to facilitation notes.
This resource is good for students with dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies.
Students at all levels need many experiences with estimating. This first collection of fifteen full-color photographs can be used as journal prompts, discussion starters, bell ringers, or for centers, small groups, or learning stations. These pictures have been chosen and formatted with estimation in mind but serve many other academic topics as well as opportunities for making meaning through writing. Pictures include animals, plants, and inanimate objects and holidays. Facilitation notes are provided.
16 colorful images
3 pages of facilitation notes
This resource is useful for students with Dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Time cards include time to the minute, 5-minutes, hour, half hour, and quarter hour
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Primary mathematicians first model “put together” and “take apart” situations using concrete objects, drawings, etc. These concepts are then expanded to composing and decomposing numbers additively. A connection to students’ prior work with building sets is important as students are developing fluencies with their addition and subtractions facts. Children need many opportunities to experience these situations.
Incorporating seasonal manipulatives allows children to practice these mathematical ideas in a contextual setting. To effectively facilitate these activities, be sure to cover the common addition and subtraction situations found in Table 1, CCSSM, page 88. Color masters are provided for both activities, the seasonal objects as well as the counters. Hyperlinks are also provided for manipulatives when applicable.
This resource is useful for students with Dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!