Open number lines

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Marilyn Burns shares with us her view on open number lines.

She brings up great reasons to try an approach with and open number line:

  • An open number line reinforces the idea that the answer to a subtraction problem is the difference between two numbers.
  • It supports using the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction by counting up instead of back.
  • It engages students in decomposing numbers and reasoning.
  • It provides a visual model that’s a useful tool.

Read all about it: HERE

Work on numeracy

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Corbettmaths has a wonderful site with five questions a day for primary students.

The nice part is that there are various levels of questions to work with and the answers are given too. A great resouce.

Read all about it: HERE

Start the math lesson easy

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Anuska Fitzherbert shares with us some nice ways to start a math lesson. It is important to set the tone for the math lesson and she relates it to the Hindu way of starting something important with a Pooja, a ceremonial prayer for success. Well that is something all students will want to participate in for a math lesson.

She comes up with six nice ways to start the lesson, great reading for our teachers.

Read all about it: HERE

Free board game

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Board games are fun and a great exercise for the youngsters to help them count up and down and skip count.

Many boardgames can help you with that but here is one that you can print out and play, with a Thanksgiving theme around it. Thank you Yourtherapysource.com for sharing that with us. Get the game in the link for today.

Read all about it: HERE

School increases IQ

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Where many people believe that your IQ is pretty much set in stone, a new analysis shows that after a year of school, children’s IQ gets a boost.

A year of schooling leaves students with new knowledge, and it also equates with a small but noticeable increase to students’ IQ, according to a systematic meta-analysis published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

“Our analyses provide the strongest evidence yet that education raises intelligence test scores,” says psychological scientist Stuart J. Ritchie of the University of Edinburgh. “We looked at 42 datasets using several different research designs and found that, overall, adding an extra year of schooling in this way improved people’s IQ scores by between 1 and 5 points.”

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Read all about it: HERE