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How to Teach Successful Long Division Strategies

by BrainNinjasWP

Do your upper elementary students struggle with long division? We've collected all our best tools for helping students master long division and you can have them all. Come read this post and see how we can help your students feel better about math.

Long division has long been one of the most challenging concepts for students in Grade 4 and Grade 5 to master. There are a few reasons students struggle with long division, so we’ve tried to break down some of the ways we set our students up for success.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Differentiation, digital task cards, interactive math notebooks, Interactive Notebooks, long division, Math, math videos, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, Multiplication, professional development, Professional Learning, self-checking task cards, task cards, Teachers Pay Teachers, videos, YouTube

Saved by the Bell Ringers in Upper Elementary

by BrainNinjasWP

It can be difficult to use every momemt of your instructional time, but bell ringers might be the key in upper elementary. We use them in every subject area to make transitions smoother, keep behaviour on track and to ignite the learning for our students. Come read about how we use bell ringers in our classroom.

Your class trickles in as you watch the time tick away and the punctual crowd starts to get restless. A student hands in work, another tells you all about the taco salad they had for lunch, while two others argue over which of two seemingly identical chairs is theirs. Does this sound familiar to you? It sounds like bell ringers might be the solution!

Bell Ringers Can Take Back That Wasted Time

Silent reading is a great way to start the day or for use during transitions. But maybe you want to shake things up? Or you want to make every minute of the day count. Bell ringers help to get things rolling from bell to bell. Read on to find out how we use them in our classroom and all the different types of bell ringers that can work.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: bell ringers, Classroom Management, French, french as a second language, FSL, Google Apps, Google Classroom, google classroom activities, Google Education, Language Arts, Reading, reading comprehension, Student Teachers, task cards, Teachers Pay Teachers, weekly readers

How to Help Your Students Master Decimal Operations

by BrainNinjasWP

We find that many students struggle with decimal operations because their understanding of decimal number sense has a few holes in it. Come learn some of the ways we support our grade four and grade five students before, during and after learning to add and subtract decimals. And come grab a free set of decimals place value task cards to get you started.

Some students have difficulty working with decimals. Others misunderstand how place value helps when working with decimals operations. And other students struggle with number operations in general. Read on to find out the ways we support the different math learners in our classroom before working with decimal operations.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: decimal operations, decimals, digital task cards, interactive math notebooks, Interactive Notebooks, Math, Math Lessons, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, task cards, Teachers Pay Teachers

Mastering the Angles: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Geometry Concepts

by BrainNinjasWP

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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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: 2D shapes, 3D objects, classroom fun, engaging lessons, geometry, interactive math notebooks, Makerspace, Math, Mathematics, objects, polygons, Project Based Learning, quadrilaterials, shape and space, shapes, task cards, transformations, types of lines

The Trouble With Task Cards and How to Fix It

by BrainNinjasWP

Do you think task cards are more work than they're worth? Maybe you're using them wrong? Or maybe you're using the wrong ones. Let us help you navigate the challenges and get you more bang for your time!

Do you need some convincing about how you can effectively use task cards in the classroom? Do you like the idea of task cards but don’t have the time to make them? All that printing, laminating and cutting can look like it’s not worth your time. Well, we have some solutions to get the most out of task cards for your students in the least amount of time for you. Keep on reading to find out how we use them and why we think they’re so valuable.

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The Truth About New Math

by BrainNinjasWP

What is new math and why does everyone keep talking about it? Here is what we tell parents about new math (spoiler alert-math isn't new). Get some practical tips for debunking the math myths.

New math is ruining education. Or at least this is what we keep hearing people (like parents, the media, and politicians) say.

What is this “new math” of which you speak?  I see the memes on Facebook and wonder, have I been teaching mathematics wrong? Has it changed? Did I miss an email about this?

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: digital task cards, Lesson Plans, Math, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, Multiplication, Multiplication Strategies, New Math, task cards, Teacher Humour, Teachers Pay Teachers, Teaching Strategies

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