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Author Archives: Christina Tondevold
Summer 2017 Book Study-Week1Q1
In the comments below, tell us a little bit about yourself, where you live, your role, and your experiences with math as you were growing up.
Tasks: Known and Unknown Facts
To help kiddos develop their fact fluency they need to start seeing relationships between the facts they know and the facts they don’t know. This video explains a way to have your kiddos create their own set of “strategy cards” based upon their own personal Known & Unknown Facts.
Representations: Managing the Sharing of Representations
Allowing kids to solve problems in whatever way they want is essential....but when letting them share all those ways can be overwhelming and feel like a waste of time. This video shows how to use the ideas of the 5 Practices book to manage the sharing of different strategies and representations.
Tasks: Use Manipulatives Daily
I LOVE the use of concrete manipulatives to help build kiddos' understandings of math concepts....but the management of all those materials can drive you crazy. So, in this video I show you some of my favorite ways to manage manipulative use in your classroom.
3 Reasons Kids Still Count on Their Fingers & How to Help Them
Christina Tondevold, BMM facilitator, walks through the 3 Reasons kids are still counting on their fingers along with how we can combat each one to help kiddos develop fact fluency.
Classroom Management Webinar
Shauna Juarez presents some field tested tips to smooth out your day and keep your classroom running efficiently! You will learn about some ways to manage groups, time outs, and materials so that you can do what you do best: teach! Get the PowerPoint slides and resources HERE. Print Your Certificate
Managing the Time Spent on Standards
Have you ever gotten to February and felt like you've been teaching the same content all year?? And then you have to try to figure out how to manage fitting in all the rest of the standards!?!?! The Content Emphases document from Achieve the Core is the best laid out format to help us know [...]
Standards: Math Practice 7 – Look for and Make Use of Structure
In this video, I delve into Math Practice #7 and talk about why there are no "pattern standards" in the Common Core Standards. Then we look at a standard from each grade level that helps kiddos 'Look For and Make Use of Structure.'
Representations to help kids Look For and Make use of Structure
I'm a big proponent of making sure kids are exposed to varied representations. However, there are times when you should only use one representation. I explain in this video.