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How to Add Candy to Your Math Lessons

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A pile of candy to use in candy math lessons.

Candy will engage students in any lesson, so why not get some math out of it? We have found our students are very motivated by food. For many of them, it is a treat they don’t get often. Candy math lessons are an easy way to sweeten up your unit.

There are lots of ways to incorporate candy into your math lessons, so we’ve gathered a list of ideas. Once you get started, you’ll see the possibilities for yourself.

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Mastering the Angles: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Geometry Concepts

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Are you looking for ways to teach geometry concepts in your upper elementary classroom? This is one of our favourite units. We teach 2D shapes, 3D objects and transformations with interactive math notebooks, task cards, Boom Cards and a huge project where we build an arcade. It's so much fun! Come see how we do this in our math class.

When we start talking about quadrilaterals, trapezoids, and parallel lines, many students get lost quickly. There are so many new and uncommon words introduced in our geometry concepts unit and it is especially difficult for English Language Learners. These are some of the ways we build an understanding of shape and space concepts in our classroom.

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