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.
Working toward functional fluency is a major goal of secondary mathematicians. As students progress through the six levels of Modular Math: Functions they will have opportunities to develop the definition for a function as well as to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various functions. Technology will be incorporated as they investigate both linear functions and quadratic functions. Verbal, one-to-one, onto, and diagrammatic representations of functions will be studied as well as composition.
Modular Mathematics is an alternative for students and teachers who would like something different or something additional to support the building of function fluency in secondary mathematicians. This is not your usual collection of notes, thoughts, writing assignments or activities. A student journal template is provided as well as a concept exploration graphic organizer.
This resource is good 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!
Writing is one of the parts of language that secondary mathematicians are still developing. For some students, ESL/ELL for example, what they know about mathematics 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 mathematics.
As the teacher, providing an environment that is rich in mathematical language is a priority. Students’ writing should make sense and be complete. This will develop over time for secondary mathematicians as they have more opportunities to write about their experiences. 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 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.
Writing is one of the parts of language that secondary mathematicians are still developing. For some students, ESL/ELL for example, what they know about mathematics 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 mathematics.
As the teacher, providing an environment that is rich in mathematical language is a priority. Students’ writing should make sense and be complete. This will develop over time for secondary mathematicians as they have more opportunities to write about their experiences. 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 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.
A palindrome is a word or a number that can be read the same way in either direction. For example, MOM is still MOM if read backwards. “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama” is a famous palindrome about the building of the Panama Canal.
Palindromes can also be numbers. 121 is still 121 if read from the other direction. This is a short collection of ideas and resources to facilitate students’ fun investigating palindromic numbers.
Students at all levels need many experiences with estimating. This collection of 45 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.
45 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!
Students at all levels need many experiences with estimating. This collection of 45 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.
45 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!
The boards are 11x17 size. Pawns not included.
These 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
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)
Available secondary game boards:
x=What?
Math Maneuvers
Tropical Math Maneuvers
Practice to Proficiency
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
Secondary game cards available (40 card sets):
Exponents I
Exponents II
Integers I
Integers II
Order of Operations
Rational Exponents
Literal Equations
Evaluate Expressions
Perimeter & Area
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
Four game boards:
Math Maneuvers
x=What?
Tropical Math
Practice to Proficiency
Game boards are 11x17 size. Pawns not included.
These 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
All game cards available:
Exponents I & II (80 cards)
Integers I & II (80 cards)
Order of Operations (40 cards)
Four game boards:
Math Maneuvers
x=What?
Tropical Math
Practice to Proficiency
Game boards are 11x17 size. Pawns not included.
These 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
All game cards available:
Rational Exponents (40 cards)
Literal Equations (40 cards)
Evaluate Expressions (40 cards)
Number charts support the investigation of and discovery of many number patterns as well as serve as an aid in developing fluencies with composition and decomposition of numbers. This 32 page packet offers aids for investigations from a 100 chart, 200 chart, up to a 1000 chart (counting by 10s) support students as they are further developing their understandings of the base ten number system. Multiple charts per page are provided that will fit nicely into the Mathematician’s Notebook.
“Difficulty with fractions (including decimals and percents) is pervasive and is a major obstacle to further progress in mathematics, including algebra.” (National Math Advisory Panel, 2008.) Fractions are the earliest topic in school mathematics where educators agree that students fail and teachers struggle to instruct.
This activity packet is good for students with dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies.
“Difficulty with fractions (including decimals and percents) is pervasive and is a major obstacle to further progress in mathematics, including algebra.” (National Math Advisory Panel, 2008.) Fractions are the earliest topic in school mathematics where educators agree that students fail and teachers struggle to instruct.
This activity packet is good for students with dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies.
Students learn mathematics more effectively and more deeply when reading and writing is directed at learning mathematics. (Bossé and Faulconer 2008) This packet includes four activities that target foundational components for developing understandings and building fluency with key mathematical topics:
Functions
Exponential Functions
Linear Functions
Quadratic Functions
Modeling
Probability
Right Triangles in Trigonometry
Statistics
Vocabulary and writing are targeted and facilitation notes are provided to support making mathematics content accessible to all learners. Templates and additional resources are provided.
This resource is good for children 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!
Tangrams, those seven simple geometric pieces, are a manipulative that can support diverse topics with students at all levels. This dissection puzzle can offer many challenges to students. The seven tans can be manipulated into various shapes, pictures, letters, etc. Tangram shapes and puzzles support the development of various geometric topics while building spatial reasoning and problem solving. Fractions are a natural fit with tangrams as is area and linear measurement.
This 31 page packet includes:
literacy connections and ideas for creating tangrams as well as discussion prompts to use as students are creating a tangram;
Ideas for investigating shapes and discussion prompts to use as students are investigating shapes;
Ideas for using tangrams to study fractions and discussion prompts to use as students are working with fractions and tangrams;
art activity suggestions and resources; and
several extensions with resources.
Blackline masters and sets of task cards are also included. Activities and ideas for all grade levels and for various levels to support differentiation.
This resource is good 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!
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.
The place value activity takes two- and three-digit numbers and represents them 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 six sets of cards, each with 6 representations with facilitation notes. The fraction activity takes common fractions and represents them through a concrete manipulative, a verbal symbol, a fraction model, a number line representation, and a symbolic representation. There is also a contextual problem for the students to work through. There are five sets of cards, each with 6 representations with facilitation notes.
This resource is good 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!
Do trade books have a place in today’s mathematics classroom? Yes!
Incorporating literature into the mathematics classroom at any level can increase student engagement, can make mathematics come alive as well as have meaning, and can help to differentiate instruction as well as support ELL/ESL students. Present mathematics in a way that will make mathematics more accessible and understandable for students at all levels.
This resource contains five suggested activities to engage students AS YOU READ, for students to experience BEING A MATHEMATICIAN, and provide students authentic OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITING. The suggested activities can be adapted for large or small groups, centers, learning stations and for intervention. Crimes and Mathdemeanors by Leith Hathout is A MUST HAVE book for all teachers and is NOT included in this download.
This resource is good for students with 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!
Do trade books have a place in today’s mathematics classroom? Yes! Incorporating literature into the mathematics classroom at any level can increase student engagement, make mathematics come alive and have meaning, and can help to differentiate instruction as well as support ELL/ESL students. Present mathematics in a way that will make mathematics more accessible and understandable for students at all levels.
This resource contains 19 suggested activities and "Ordering Dominoes" activity to engage students AS YOU READ, for students to experience BEING A MATHEMATICIAN, and provide authentic OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITING. The suggested activities can be adapted for a large or small group, centers, learning stations and for intervention.
This resource is good for students with 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!
Book not included.
Writing is one of the parts of language that younger mathematicians are still developing along with their reading, talking, and listening skills. Children 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 mathematics.
As the teacher, providing an environment that is rich in mathematical language is a priority. 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 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.