I've taught upper elementary for 22 years and love developing curriculum and activities that bridge the gap between research and theory with practical classroom implementation.
Make Multiplication Fact Mastery Fun and Easy with These Interactive Multiplication Fact Booklets!Are your students struggling to grasp the concept of multiplication? Are you looking for a versatile resource that provides both practice and conceptual understanding? Look no further! These Multiplication Facts Booklets are designed to help students understand multiplication while building their math fluency and automaticity. With both digital and printable versions included, you’ll have the flexib
Keep Your Students on Track with This 4th Grade Spiral Math Review! Looking for a structured, year-long math review that reinforces key fourth-grade skills? This Spiral Math Review includes 33 worksheets designed to provide consistent practice in a progressive format. Whether you use it for bell work, homework, or math centers, this resource ensures your students retain essential math concepts all year long! Why Teachers Love This Resource ✅ Covers the Entire Year – Starts with a 3rd-g
Grab this opportunity to supercharge daily math practice for Grades 3, 4, and 5 with this versatile Spiral Review — print and digital ready!This resource is designed to make daily math review simple, systematic, and meaningful for upper‑elementary students. Whether you’re using it as morning work, homework, centers, or daily practice time, this bundle integrates key skills many 3rd‑ and 4th‑grade students need to master — and it’s flexible enough to stretch into 5th grade. With six differentiate
Build a Deep Conceptual Understanding of Multi-Digit Division with This Proven 5-Week UnitAre your students struggling to make sense of division? Stop the frustration and guide your learners to real understanding with this research-based multi-digit division unit. This 5-week resource gives your fourth graders the tools, strategies, and conceptual foundations they need to divide confidently using area models, place value, and partial quotients. This isn't just a set of division worksheets and
Help students to develop a conceptual understanding of multi digit multiplication with area model multiplication, partial products, factors, multiples, and multiplicative comparison with this multiplication unit! The multi digit multiplication resource includes five weeks of math instruction with detailed and easy to follow lesson plans. The hands-on lessons are designed to give students a solid foundation with area model multiplication, partial products, factors and multiples, prime
This 4th Grade Math Bundle is a year long resource for conceptual math instruction in math workshop, guided math, or any math class. There are eight units that are each centered around a different mathematical concept: 1. Place Value and Rounding; 2. Addition and Subtraction; 3. Multiplication; 4. Division; 5. Fractions; 6. Decimals; 7. Geometry; 8. Measurement. Each Lesson Includes:Unit at a GlanceDetailed Lesson Plans that include performance tasksSkill Building WorksheetsAnswer KeysUnit 1 P
This 7-week Fraction Unit provides everything you need to teach equivalent fractions, comparing fractins, adding and subtracting fractions, and convertng mixed numbers and improper fractions through hands-on activities, performance tasks, fraction games, and engaging lessons. Designed to fit seamlessly into your math instruction, this resource is packed with lessons, activities, skill -building worksheets, and interactive fraction games to ensure your students develop a deep understanding of
Grab this Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping Games | Math Centers & Worksheets resource and give your students meaningful practice with 2-digit and 3-digit addition and subtraction in a format that keeps math practice interesting and easy to manage. These no-prep math games provide repeated practice with regrouping skills while fitting seamlessly into math centers, small groups, partner activities, or independent practice. Regrouping can be one of the most challenging concepts for studen
There are three activities in this sports themed math resource! Activity 1At first glance, the activity looks like nothing more than a worksheet, and it can certainly be used as that. What made this awesome for students is that it includes a link to a sports clip for each word problem. Students click the link and see the event mentioned in the word problem. I includes a variety of sports to keep everyone’s interest. Some of the problems are a bit challenging. I designed them for my fourth grad
College football sparks more passion and enthusiasm in my students than almost anything, so rather than try to fight it, I've learned to work with it! I've created 48 college football themed math task cards to engage my students as they practice their computation skills. Cards 1-24 include only addition and subtraction problems, and cards 25-48 include only multiplication and division problems. There are 24 different college football teams represented with team colors and a reference to the s
Weekly Word Problems will be your absolute FAVORITE way to teach word problems! These editable word problems are sure to become an essential component to your math instruction! *************************************************************************** Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. In this activity, students solve 3 word problems a day, and on Fridays they write their own word problem for a specific operation. There are 4 weeks worth of word
Weekly Word Problems are my absolute FAVORITE way to teach word problems! These word problems have become an essential component to my classroom instruction! *************************************************************************** Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. The May version contains a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems, and all operations include larger numbers that require students to apply the
Take your math unit to the next level with this hands-on Area and Perimeter Farm Project, a culminating performance task that asks students to design their own farm while calculating area, perimeter, revenue, fencing costs, and total profit. This resource turns traditional geometry and measurement practice into an applied math experience where students must think critically, justify decisions, and maximize earnings using rectangular crop plots. This five-page project-based learning activity (i
Weekly Word Problems will be your absolute FAVORITE way to teach word problems! These editable word problems are sure to become an essential component to your math instruction! *************************************************************************** Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. In this activity, students solve 3 word problems a day, and on Fridays they write their own word problem for a specific operation. There are 4 weeks worth of word
Weekly Word Problems will be your absolute FAVORITE way to teach word problems! These editable word problems are sure to become an essential component to your math instruction! *************************************************************************** Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. In this activity, students solve 3 word problems a day, and on Fridays they write their own word problem for a specific operation. There are 4 weeks worth of word
Weekly Word Problems will be your absolute FAVORITE way to teach word problems! These editable word problems are sure to become an essential component to your math instruction! *************************************************************************** Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. In this activity, students solve 3 word problems a day, and on Fridays they write their own word problem for a specific operation. There are 4 weeks worth of word
No Prep NeededThe Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. The February version contains a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems. In this activity, students have to solve 3 word problems a day, and on Fridays they write their own word problem for a specific operation. Each day's word problems include similar people and contexts, so that students can focus on the mathematical context of the problem. There are 4 wee
Weekly Word Problems will be your absolute FAVORITE way to teach word problems! These editable word problems are sure to become an essential component to your math instruction! *************************************************************************** Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. In this activity, students solve 3 word problems a day, and on Fridays they write their own word problem for a specific operation. There are 4 weeks worth of word
Looking for an easy, consistent way to build your students’ word problem skills every day? These January Word Problems for 4th Grade are the perfect solution for daily math practice, focused reasoning, and targeted problem-solving routines—all with a seasonal twist that keeps students interested and engaged. With four full weeks of editable word problems, your students will practice solving and writing problems every day, while you build a classroom routine that strengthens confidence and criti
Weekly Word Problems will be your absolute FAVORITE way to teach word problems! These editable word problems are sure to become an essential component to your math instruction! *************************************************************************** Weekly Word problems allow students to practice their word problem skills each day. In this activity, students solve 3 word problems a day, and on Fridays they write their own word problem for a specific operation. There are 4 weeks worth of word
I've taught upper elementary for 22 years and love developing curriculum and activities that bridge the gap between research and theory with practical classroom implementation.
Teaching style
I create engaging yet rigorous lessons that inspire students to think critically and outside the box. I incorporate a variety of teaching strategies to meet the diverse needs of my students, as well as find that balance between conceptual understanding and basic skills.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Year-2007, 2020
Unum Hall of Fame-2007
Grant Recipient for math manipulatives-2006
My own education history
BS in Elementary Education from Florida State
MA in Curriculum and Instruction
Ed.S. in Brain Research
Gifted Endorsement
Additional biographical information
Outside of teaching, developing curriculum, and blogging, I love spending time with my husband and two children. My daughter is six and my baby boy is growing up too fast.
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