Fanciful First Grade

State testing? Benchmark testing? Post testing on a unit? Here are 6 WONDERFUL letter-sized (AND POSTER-sized) test taking strategy posters that you can display as a bulletin board set or at the front of your room to serve as reminders for your students. Posting these test taking strategy posters will help your students to remember to "slash the trash" (eliminate silly answers) and "show your work" (to think through problems). These are only 2 of the 6 catch phrases that will help your class i

Do you need a quick math assessment to check your 2nd grade students' progress? The following skills are assessed: -comparing numbers (1.NBT.3/2.NBT.4) -numbers before/after (1.NBT.1/2.NBT.2) -number sense using tens and ones (1.NBT.2/2.NBT.1) -skip counting (2s, 5s, 10s off the decade, 100s) (2.NBT.2) -addition 1 digit/1 digit, 2 digit/1 digit, four 2 digit numbers (1.OA.6/2.NBT.5/2.NBT.6) -subtraction 1 digit/1 digit, 2 digit/1 digit (1.OA.6/2.OA.2) -related facts (aka fact family) (2.

Common Core State Standards has a huge focus on nonfiction text, but there isn't always a matching passage that supports core curriculum foci. This passage is meant to compliment, or provide an introduction, to comparing fractions with different denominators. CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.A.2 Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2. CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3.

Here's the follow up lessons I taught after spending several lessons using concrete manipulatives to build students' understanding of "The Magic 10". These are NOT first day lessons, but follow-up lessons using base ten block pictorial representation. In these lessons, students are counting to the magical number 10, whether it's 10 ones or 10 tens, and bundling that group together. They then record how many hundreds, tens, or ones are represented in each problem and write the number in standard

Looking to help your students discover (aka "analyze") their math mistakes? This form is an easy one-pager to assist your students in understanding why they missed a problem. It can accommodate up to four problems when printing 2-to-2 sided. The 4 types of errors students will consider are: Careless/Precision ProceduralComputationalConceptualLove to hear how you use this. Cheers! =)