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We know children are naturally fascinated by trains. Take advantage of this fun event in your classroom this month with a high-leverage math tool, Ten-Frames Trains. Make the concept of ten concrete for your learners with these fun, interlocking "train" cars that hold 10 counters per train. Connect trains together to work with numbers to 20 and beyond.
Multiplication Fact Fluency Cards are an easy yet effective system to master multiplication and division facts to 100. Students develop fluency with one set of facts at a time, using facts they now know to solve unknown related facts. Each card provides a visual model, an array of dots, to aid in learning the multiplication fact.
An interview with the cards' creator, Nancy Anderson
Go Figure! is a mathematical card game that was developed to make math fun for everyone!
What brought you to this project? Why did you think there was a need for an early algebra curriculum? We recognized that, generally, students are not prepared for the kind of math that they are doing in middle school and high school, and that algebra is really the gatekeeper for post-secondary education and entering the job market. We found that by spending just a little bit of time building early algebraic concepts in elementary grades, we can significantly improve children’s algebra readiness as they enter middle grades, and this has the potential to transform their success in school mathematics.
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