One of my tasks over the past few weeks has been to design a new literacy and numeracy support program for my school. I have done heaps of ...

When teaching place value, I believe that it is truly important that students are able to rename a number. If they can do that, it shows th...

This idea is from Runde's Room's Interactive Maths Journals . When teaching whole number place value, I created a place value colum...

http://pinterest.com/pin/169236898469148083/ I found this on Pinterest and loved it. It is definitely worth sharing.While teaching deci...

I found this wonderful and creative activity pack called Pirate Place Value (from Frogs and Cupcakes) and absolutely had to use it. My mat...

This is a great activity to test students knowledge of place value and decimal numbers. Although a few of my students struggled with this ac...

At one of the EAL (English as an Additional Language) professional development workshops I attended last year, the speaker discussed how us...

As an application activity for 3D shapes, our maths class created their own 3D shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. I was surprised wit...

It's been a while since I've posted something on my blog. I guess this past term has just gotten the best of me. So I have tons of ...

We have started off our maths topic with "space" and more specifically, looking at 2D shapes. Now my maths group is full of stude...

Today's measurement task: To construct 4 different rectangles, two with a perimeter of 24cm and two with an area of 24cm squared.  ...

My learning coach presented this activity to me to use in the classroom as we are working on measurement. It focuses on the use of a learnin...

The importance of using proper terminology in maths has been proven in numerous studies. Thus, when beginning new units in maths, I also ma...

This activity comes from George Booker's book "Teaching Primary Mathematics" In the early stages of our unit on probabili...

I often find division the hardest of the operations to teach simply because I think I struggle myself to simplify it for students. This tim...

Usually I would be measuring a basketball court or a baseball diamond, but in Australia, we are measuring the netball court! For those outs...

A simple activity that focuses on estimation and measurement of length.   Students were placed in mixed ability groups and each grou...

My post "Sharing in Division" is about an activity that I use often at the beginning of my unit on division to teach the strateg...

Learning Focus: Estimating length and perimeter of objects of various sizes As I've mentioned, my students love creating posters a...

Here is a poster that I make with the children when we start our unit on division.  It is crucial that students use the correct mathe...