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
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
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
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.
August-second grade review
September:
-3.NBT.1
-3.NBT.2
October
-3.OA.1
-3.OA.3
-3.OA.5
-3.OA.7
-3.NBT.1
-3.NBT.2
November
-3.OA.1
-3
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 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
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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