Christine Roach

So you want to do the Pumpkin Book Report, but you don't have a bilingual paper to send home and you don't have time to do it yourself. Here is a very simple page you can edit and send home today.

This is a simple problem solving template you can use to teach students to break down addition or subtraction problems into steps and work them out. Use this with the concrete, representational, abstract instructional method by having students work out problems with manipulatives first, then progress to drawing and finally to writing the number sentence. It is in WORD format so you can edit as needed. I often take problems from our Envision Math adoption and put them in this format to assist st