by LD Helfer | Sep 21, 2019 | Math Professional Development, Teacher Tips
When you set up your interactive notebooks, make sure you start off right by creating an efficient way to keep them organized. One of the most essential tools for a guided math classroom is an interactive notebook. Students need to be access all the valuable...
by LD Helfer | Aug 24, 2019 | Math Professional Development, Teacher Tips
Place value is often one of the first topics taught in 4th grade or 5th grade math, but it is not easy for many students. Getting students to REALLY understand how the place value system works is so important. Place value understanding builds into every operational...
by LD Helfer | Jul 3, 2019 | Teacher Tips
Teachers are always on the lookout for easy and effective classroom management strategies to use with students. Especially when teaching middle school, it can be tricky to find something that pre-teen students will enjoy and buy into. A good behavior grid is a student...
by LD Helfer | Jun 27, 2019 | Math Professional Development, Teacher Tips, Uncategorized
Digital resources are an easy and engaging tool for teachers today. Except sharing them with your students can be time consuming or complicated. Unlike a paper worksheet or activity, you cannot just hand a digital activity to your students. Many teachers use Google...
by LD Helfer | Dec 24, 2018 | Math Professional Development, Teacher Tips
Teaching proportionality is a difficult task with any group of students, but with students who may be below their grade level in reading, teaching proportional relationships may seem to be nearly impossible. After years of working with English learners in the...
by LD Helfer | Oct 23, 2017 | Teacher Tips
As one to one classrooms become more common, teachers want to find great new ways to bring technology to the classroom. Choosing the right type of activity for using technology in the math classroom can be difficult. Math is such a hands on subject, that there are...
