Do you want your students BEGGING to come to math or asking you to stay in your classroom during lunch to work? Engage your students during your unit on Volume while also allowing them to show mastery of the standards with a hands-on, end-of unit summative assessment. Volumeville is a highly engaging, collaborative project that your kids will LOVE. Some units/skills don’t lend themselves to project-based learning opportunities, but volume is unique. I wanted to give my students ... Read More about The Volume Assessment Students Will Be BEGGING You to Complete
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Tips for Introducing Volume
What's the first thing you should do when introducing volume to your students? GIVE THEM UNIT CUBES! The best way to get your students to understand the concept of volume is to put it right in their hands. Provide students with a handful of unit cubes and begin by introducing them to the concept of a unit cube and how it's measured: cubic units. THEY WILL LOVE IT! Do you want to get them even more engaged? Turn the lesson over to them! Use a document camera to model various ... Read More about Tips for Introducing Volume
2 Strategies for Dividing Fractions
It can be a challenge for students to truly understand the concept of dividing fractions. I'm going to explain and demonstrate 2 strategies for dividing fractions that you can use in the classroom with little to no prep. Using visual models while teaching your students to divide fractions and whole numbers with unit fractions can help to illustrate this concept. As students become more comfortable, you can reinforce this understanding by using the standard algorithm. Check out ... Read More about 2 Strategies for Dividing Fractions
Dividing Fractions: Hands-On, Real-World Examples
Are you teaching dividing fractions to students who are not engaged or just "don't get it"? Do you have students who are visual learners? I'm going to show you two hands-on, real-world dividing fractions examples that you can show to or demonstrate with your students. "Seeing" the math in real life may help connect some of the dots. Dividing Unit Fractions by Whole Numbers This video shows students what it looks like to take a unit fraction and divide it by a whole number. You ... Read More about Dividing Fractions: Hands-On, Real-World Examples
