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If you asked your students what the purpose of math is, what do you think they’d say?
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One of the perks of being a math instructional coach is that you get to visit classrooms on a daily basis. On one of those visits, I observed this 1st-grade number of the day routine using ten frames.
The daily routine begins by showing the number of the day (which is the number of days in school) using ten frames. Each day a student gets to draw another dot on the ten-frame. You could have students add a dot sticker, but it was kind of cool to see...

As a young girl, I briefly took gymnastics lessons. Anybody else? I have to admit that I was not very flexible—I couldn’t do a smooth backward roll to save my life! That said, one of my favorite Olympic events is the gymnastics competition. Every four...

The math standards are carefully aligned to gradually develop concepts over a period of time. A great example is telling time. In First Grade, students are required to tell time to the hour and half hour. In Second Grade, the standards extend it to five...