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
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
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
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
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 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 problems in this resource. No Prep NeededThe September version contains a mixture of
Daily 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 p
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
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
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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