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.
Build Math Confidence with this 3rd Grade Spiral Math Review! Struggling to keep your students on track with all the essential third-grade math skills? This 3rd Grade Math Review provides 33 no-prep worksheets designed to reinforce key concepts all year long! With a consistent spiral format, students will repeatedly practice core math skills, boosting retention and mastery. Why You'll Love This Resource ✅ Covers the Full Year – Worksheets gradually increase in difficulty, starting with a
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
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
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
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
Are your students struggling with addition and subtraction with regrouping, especially when those skills appear in word problems? This 3rd grade addition and subtraction with regrouping unit includes 15 step-by-step math lessons designed to help students master 2-digit and 3-digit regrouping, build strong problem-solving skills, and gain confidence with challenging multi-step problems. Through clear instruction, strategy practice, and real-world math tasks, students develop a deeper understan
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
Build Word Problem Confidence with Identifying Operations in Word Problems Task Cards! Do your students struggle to figure out which operation to use when solving word problems? The Identifying Operations in Word Problems Task Cards are here to help! With 24 focused and easy-to-implement task cards, this resource is perfect for helping students learn how to analyze problem situations and determine whether to add, subtract, multiply, or divide — a foundational skill for math success. Whether you
This 3rd grade math test prep resource helps students review essential skills before the state test, NWEA, and STAAR assessments. These structured practice pages build confidence with 3rd grade math test prep, problem solving, and multi-step thinking. Preparing for high-stakes assessments like state testing, NWEA tests, and STAAR can feel overwhelming—for both teachers and students. That’s why this 3rd Grade Math Test Prep pack was carefully designed to provide consistent, targeted practice that
This product includes 36 multiplication and division word problems that come in a task card format. These word problems consist of one-digit numbers, so they would be great for students just learning their multiplication and division facts. These task cards would be a great math work station or math centers activity and are aligned to the Common Core Standards! Check out these other math task cards! Measurement Task CardsMulti-Step Word ProblemsChoose the Operation Sort and Word ProblemsCollege
Are your 3rd-grade students ready for multiplication and division mastery? This full-unit resource provides everything you need — from lesson plans and pacing guide to concrete, pictorial, and abstract representations of multiplication (arrays, repeated addition, grouping) and division (quotients, equal groups, word problems). With differentiated options for remediation and enrichment, students at all levels stay on target and grow their skills. This comprehensive multiplication and division uni
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
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
Grab this chance to build confident math thinkers with these Hundreds Chart Missing Number Task Cards!Are your students struggling to make connections between numbers or relying too heavily on counting by ones? This resource is designed to sharpen number sense and develop essential mental math strategies using a familiar tool in an unexpected way: the hundreds chart — but with a twist. Each task card features a fragment of a hundreds chart with only one number given. Students must rely on their
This is a complete year's worth of spiral math review task cards, with over 500 task cards in this bundle! This task card collection includes a set of spiral review task cards for each month of the year (excluding June and July)! These have all been aligned to the third grade Common Core Standards, and I've even written the standard number on each task card.
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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
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
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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