Visual Mathematics

The following is a review of Pictorial Mathematics that appeared on Teaching Mathematics, a math education journal published by NCTM, the largest mathematics education association in the world. The book is available through amazon for $32.95, but it is available here as a E-book for $20. “Modifying one’s instructional practice to reflect the NCTM’s Standards is challenging. It is particularly true when creating ways for students to “see” mathematics in more than the rote symbolic manner that d

Fractions Bundle of Games and Activities This bundle includes my top 5 Fraction Common Core resources on: 1) Basic Elementary Fractions 2) Understanding Equivalent Fractions 3) Learning to add fractions with uncommon denominators 4) Multiplying fractions 5) Translating between fractions, decimals and percents These are also for sale individually, but if you buy this bundle you save 20% ($13.00)! You get over 100 activities and games to engage your students in these critical topics. None of

Multiplication of 1 Digit by 1 or more: A Comprehensive Set of 3rd/4th Grade Multiplication Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities (Ask about our on site teacher training at pictorialmath@yahoo.com and get up to $100 of our materials for every teacher at your school for free!) This 111-page PDF download includes: • 27 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related multiplication for 3rd and 4th grade

When it comes to adding fractions with uncommon denominators, so many students either don't know their multiplication facts or are just simply intimidated by fractions. This Narrated Powerpoint lesson takes you step by step on a strategy that is guaranteed to make it much simpler for these students to add fractions with uncommon denominators. Our goal is to provide teachers and parents with easy to follow, effective strategies and lessons at a bargain price.

Division by Grouping: A Comprehensive Set of 3rd/4th Grade Division Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 104-page PDF download includes: • 24 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to division for 3rd and 4th grade. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Matrix with common core standards targeted by each game and activity • Instructions, variations to scaffold and diffe

Money Money Money! A Comprehensive Set of Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities Ask about our on site teacher training at pictorialmath@yahoo.com and get up to $100 of our materials for every teacher at your school for free!) This is the only set you will need to teach all the standards about money and the only resource you will need to engage students in problem solving with money. All resources needed are included for grades 2 to 5, and for special education students.

2-Digit by 2-Digit Pictorial Multiplication: A Comprehensive Set of 4th, 5th and 6th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 84+-page PDF download includes: • 27 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related multiplication to 4th and 5th grade. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • A detailed listing of all the 4th and 5th grade Common Core standards targeted by the Games.

When it comes to addition with regrouping and solving word problems involving addition with regrouping, this set is the one that 2nd-4th teachers who attend my workshops rave the most about. Students will use the premade boards and ledgers to sell: 1) Food: burgers, hot-dogs, pizza, tacos, mac and cheese, burritos, burger meals, and fried chicken. 2) Top selling kid-friendly movies 3) Top selling video games 4) Family board games 5) Various types of bicycles 6) Large family games like ping pong

This bundle includes my top four 3rd and 4th grade curriculum materials for multiplication by 1 digit, by 2 digit and for division. These are also for sale individually, but if you buy this bundle you save 20% ($7.00)! You get hundreds of activities and games to engage your students all year in place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with regrouping, money, and assessments for both 2nd and 3rd grade. None of my bundles repeat any of the products that appear in other bundles. A prod

Multiplication by Grouping Level 1 Video Lesson • The grouping strategy taught allows students to multiply without knowing all their multiplication facts; • This video takes you step by step on how to develop the meaning of multiplication; • It guides students to learn the most effective early multiplication strategy: the multiplication by grouping strategy; • It provides a model for a conceptual-focus Common Core lesson; • With this strategy students only have to know how to count by 1,

Equivalent Fractions: A Comprehensive Set of 4th through 7th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 65-page PDF download includes: • 26 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to equivalent fractions in grades 4 through 7th. • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • All the Instructional cards for teaching and practicing translating between various re

Elementary Fractions: A Comprehensive Set of 2nd to 4th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 115-page PDF download includes: • 26 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to fractions for students performing between the 2nd and 4th grade levels. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • Instructions

Adding Fractions: A Comprehensive Set of 4th through 7th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 65-page PDF download includes: • 26 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to adding fractions in grades 4 through 7th. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • All the Instructional cards for teaching an

When teaching how to subtract fractions with unlike denominators, teachers face two main challenges: lack of basic skills, and students who are intimidated by fractions. The strategy presented in this narrated lesson will make the teaching of subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators as easy as removing brownies from a brownie tray,

You and your students will love these set of engaging activities to practice and apply subtraction with regrouping skills and problem solving. Students will use the premade boards and ledgers to buy: 1) Food: burgers, hot-dogs, pizza, tacos, mac and cheese, burritos, burger meals, and fried chicken. 2) Top selling kid-friendly movies 3) Top selling video games 4) Family board games 5) Various types of bicycles 6) Large family games like ping pong tables and air-hockey 7) Video game systems 8) P

Multiple Ways to Multiply Templates and Activities Using these templates and activities, students will be practicing 1 digit by one digit multiplication in six different ways: • Using ten-frames • Using Base-10 block pictures • Using repeated addition • Using the grouping strategy • By decomposing numbers into 1, 2, 5 • By writing the corresponding division equation Ideas for how to use the templates for practice, cooperative learning, assessment and for playing learning games are included.

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect Four game that gets to students to practice adding fractions with uncommon denominators. The additions are set up to progress from the easiest in the first board to the most difficult in the fourth board. I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at adding fractions. The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different level of d

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect Four game that gets to students to practice subtracting decimals with regrouping. The subtractions are set up to progress from the easiest in the first board to the most difficult in the fourth board. I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at subtracting decimals. The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different level of di

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect four game that gets to students to practice their multiplication facts, The facts are set up to progress form the easiest (1, 2, 5, 10) to the most difficult ones (11, 4, 8, 3 and 6, 9, 12, 7). I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at recalling the key multiplication facts The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different le

Multiplication is approached from 8 different perspectives and representations, and both the translations and the transformations from and to other representations creates the opportunity for students to develop conceptual understanding. In this first section, you will see how students might approach multiplying a one digit number by one, two or more digit numbers using both a grouping strategy and the idea of decomposing numbers. Let me clarify. In multiplication such as 4 x 26, the first nu