Jacqueline Raseman

This is an anchor chart of steps to lead students in how to do the box method, or area model of multiplication. It has five steps that have students break apart a number into place values, then set up a grid, and then multiply and add to find an answer. This would be helpful to post in the classroom, or to have student glue into notebooks to be able to reference.

Are your students struggling to understand how to subtract mixed numbers where they need to borrow from the whole numbers? This anchor simply lays out the steps, with visual aids.

This anchor chart clearly lays out the steps in how to subtract mixed numbers. The first way is through finding a common denominator, the second way is converting to an improper fraction, finding a common denominator, and converting back. This would be helpful to have as a visual reference in your classroom, or printing and having as a reference in a math notebook.