My school is about to implement some sort of math facts fluency standards. This is probably a good thing when the majority of my students coming into the year had count up or down on their fingers when they are doing addition and subtraction. Not to mention 5th graders who still add 6 [...]
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I’ve got a 1/2 day math curriculum meeting in the a.m. this week and a 1/2 day “PLC Planning Committee” meeting for the other 1/2 day. There is no way this goes well. Luckily (hopefully), I’m the only faculty member that is on both committees. This should allow for a lot of ideas and discussion [...]
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My school doesn’t use a textbook for math, so I’m not quite in the same boat as Dan. Mine might be worse, it’s a scripted program that actually has quotes that teachers are supposed to use during instruction. Luckily we’re not held to that if we understand 5th grade math (some of the co-workers need [...]
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