Eureka Math is a free curriculum found through GreatMinds.org. I piloted this program for my school and have seen incredible math comprehension skills blossom while following the program. Each daily lesson begins with the Fluency Practice which sometimes, sadly, is tempting to put aside due to time constraints, having to write and rewrite the math problems, look at the teacher's edition constantly to see what's next, and a desire to get to the Concept Development lesson of the day. However, the spiraling daily activities are critical to building on each lesson and I have seen these short, but quickly moving practices improve my students' confidence in math. Math has become the favorite subject in my classroom!

During 2020-2021, I was asked to be a virtual teacher which made the fluency practices incredibly difficult to teach when you're forced to instruct through a screen. So I created these Google Slide shows to engage the students and assess their understanding. When I returned to the classroom the next year, I was thrilled to see how helpful they were in-person. By using my handheld remote, I am able to walk around the classroom, peek over shoulders, and support students in a risk-free way that is fun, engaging, and fast paced.

These Google Slides have visuals of place value disks, geometric shapes, and metric conversion plus addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. All the time and effort to create them as a virtual teacher has made my now in-person math lessons fun, interactive and helpful with time management.