Wait no longer! 4th Grade is here! Check out this FREE Common Core Math Guide that has specific examples for each standard, the learning objective (I Can Statement), and examples of assessment for mastery, emerging, and novice! Want a different grade? Here is what has been published so far Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Grades 5-8 Coming soon! Feel free to pin to help others find this FREE resource! *** This guide was compiled with Carl Jones, Karen Smith, and Virginia McClain *** Receive monthly tech tips, exclusive freebies and more sent directly to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter
The second grade math common core guide is ready!!! Kindergarten and First Grade have been released and grades 3-8 is coming soon! Check back for more. This guide has it all! The standards, I Can Statements, Examples, Assessment Guides. Best of all this is a free resource! Want the rest? Subscribe to the posts on the right hand side! Ready for even more goodies? Subscribe to our newsletter below! Receive monthly tech tips, exclusive freebies and more sent directly to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter
This guide to Math Common Core is sure to please all Kindergarten teachers. It features specific examples for each standard, a learning target (I Can Statement) for each standard AND an three examples of assessment for every standard. Did I mention that this is a FREE guide?
Feel free to share the link to this post with all of your favorite Kindergarten teachers and parents! This is the first post in an upcoming series of posts for each grade level! Check back for more, or better yet subscribe, follow, and share! Have a great day!
**** This guide and the other grade level guides were created by myself, Karen Smith, Carl Jones, and Virginia McClain ****
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Technology has the power to take a mediocre lesson and make it jaw dropping. To take an uninterested student and get them involved and excited. Technology can change EVERYTHING. However, it is so important for us to keep the focus on the learning, on the engagement, on the skills and the take away. We need to only incorporate technology where it enhances the learning, when it breaks down barriers and takes learning to a new level. We do not want to have the focus of any lesson to be the use of technology. If you objective for the day is to "make a Prezi" you are sadly missing the boat. We need to focus on the learning at hand and look at ways where the technology can bring your teaching to life.
Better Lessons- Common Core: National Education Association
The College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
The Production and Distribution of Writing
K-5
6. Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others
6-12
6. Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others
When I read this statement the tool that stands out (actually, it is more like standing on the roof top yelling its name!) is Google Apps for Education, Google Docs in particular. Google Docs allows you to collaborate with up to 50 people at one time and share your document with up to 200 other collaborators. When you share you can designate if you are giving editing rights, commenting rights, or just viewing rights. This tool is in the cloud and is a free. That means that as long as you have the internet, you are seeing the same thing as all of your classmates- as Google always gives you the latest version of the software. It evens the playing field between your wealthiest student and your poorest student. Google Docs keeps track of every single revision made on the documents- so you can look back at any time and see who contributed, what they wrote, and at what time. You are also able to restore the document at any time. AMAZING!
With the integration of Google Hangouts, you can "hangout" with up to 9 different people and work on the same document from 9 different locations all while seeing their face and hearing their voices.
Check out these links for more information on Google Apps for Education. But keep in mind, it isn't the tool that we need to focus on, it is the learning, the collaboration and the empowerment that matters.
Level It Books- Scan the barcode of the book and you will be given the Lexile score among other information
iBooks- Great source of digital text, particularly books in the Gutenberg Project. You are able to book mark, highlight, add notes, find specific words, change text size, have words read aloud and define words.
Khan Academy- Thousands of video tutorials explaining mathematical concepts and practice problems available to support students in developing their understanding of math.
INFOhio Common Core Toolkit- Tools outlined here require a password that is available to every public school student and teacher in Ohio. Contact your technology coordinator or librarian for the password.
Watch, Know, Learn. Videos from all over the web compiled in one place. The videos are teacher approved and rated then compiled and sorted by grade level and common core standard. AMAZING! They also have videos for many of the text exemplars!
There is nothing that I love more than when teachers and students break boundaries to learn new material. LOVE IT! Westerville High School is a prime example. They have a YouTube channel with 6 different videos taking math concepts and putting them to popular lyrics. My favorite is "Teach Me How To Factor" to the tune of "Teach Me How to Dougie". Not even going to lie, I love it! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!
I bet every single one of these students know the revised lyrics and have will always remember how to factor! If you enjoyed this video be sure to check out their YouTube Channel. All six videos are awesome. I cannot wait to see what they come up with next! Another favorite channel by teachers is HistoryTeachers, here they take historical events to popular songs. My favorite of theirs is the Black Death Do you know of any others? I would LOVE to hear these- one of my favorite things ever!
But what I just found out is that they have an app. This app is awesome for teaching fractions, decimals, and percents. The screen shot below is the directions for using.
Basically on half of the screen you can choose from fractions, decimals or percents and drag them to the second half of the screen. This allows you to compare fractions like the picture below. But what is even more exciting is that when you click on the fraction pieces it will show you the fraction as a decimal and a percent. It also has the feature that lets you draw.
This is an awesome app! I have my fingers crossed that they add more manipulatives in the future. At the price tag of free, you can not beat it! What do you hope they add next?
It's Monday and that means freebies! Wahoo! One of my favorites. :-) This weeks freebie is something every parent and teacher needs!
Preparing for the Common Core is a huge task as any teacher can tell you. Sometimes, even understanding what the standards are trying to say can be a big problem. In collaboration with several others we have created 9 different math common core guides. These guides would be a great resource for parents to understand what is being asked, what developing, proficient, and advanced skills look like. You can grab all of these at MrsFullenkamp.com on the Common Core Resource Page or by clicking the links below.
It's Monday and that means a freebie. In this case several! I have shared 5 math PowerPoints including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and basic geometry. These are a great addition to any classroom- knowing your math facts can really make all of the difference! :-)
You can get all five of these downloads on MrsFullenkamp.com I have been working on this site for about 5 years. Whenever I find a resource that I don't want to loose I put it on here- almost like Pinterest before Pinterest! However, these are all kid appropriate resources- something that I would feel comfortable sending home with students to practice at home. :-) Check out these games to help support your math instruction.
Be sure to like MrsFullenkamp.com on Facebook to stay updated on all of the latest additions. :-) Please feel free to share this resource with your students and parents! If you have any other ideas for more of these type PowerPoints/Resources please let me know. I enjoy making them!
Check out these FIVE free math fact Power Points! I have addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and basic algebra. I often used these in the morning while the kids were coming in, or at a time when I wasn't directly teaching. A little extra math review is always a good thing! You can snag these on MrsFullenkamp.com on the Math Facts Page. Have ideas for more? Please let me know! Also, if you want to check out tons of other freebies, take a look at the link below!
This is very similar to yesterday's posts about reading games but on MrsFullenkamp.com I also have math activities on this site. Math games have been one of my most popular games on the site. Categories of games include: counting, addition, ordinal numbers, subtraction, multiplication, money, fractions, division, place value, decimals, Algebra, equations, story problems, integers, order of operation, ratios and proportions, input/output tables, geometry, volume, circumference, and probability. Each of the pages have tons of free resources, videos, activities and games. Check them out here. Do you know any other resources that I have missed?
Do you know Stella? She's one of my favorites! Read her bio here, it's worth it. Promise!
Stella is the author of Stella's Stunners. The description from the site says "A collection of more than 600 nonroutine mathematics problems. Problems range from simple visual problems, requiring no specific mathematical background, to problems that use the content of pre-algebra up through pre-calculus."
I love that the problems are divided by class, by title, by Stella Number, and by Stella Decimal System. This is amazing! The best part about this is that the collection is growing! The teacher who wrote these has an entire cabinet full just waiting to be digitalized. Stella's Stunners are geared to grades 6-12. Here is one of the problems. If you want the answer you need to head on over to Stella's Stunners which is on the hidden gem site, Ohio Resource Center. Check both of them out!!!!
