Manipulatives provide a hands-on approach to making sense of mathematics. Students who are not naturally abstract thinkers are more successful in math when they have had an opportunity to formulate concepts and rules through discovery and exploration.

Many school districts across the United States made initial ‘return to learning’ plans under a hybrid model in the COVID19 era. Under a hybrid model, students attend school for in-person learning 2-3 times per week and complete e-learning activities on the other days. Now that the number of positive cases per day is on the rise and breaking previous record highs, many school divisions are amending their ‘return to learning’ plans and deciding to open schools virtually.

I absolutely love encouraging students to use manipulatives and organizers to assist their thinking in math. They are useful for providing concrete pictorial representations which is important in understanding abstract mathematical concepts. In this post, I will explain a few ways you can use a hundreds chart with your child.

Summer slide is the phenomenon that occurs when students are not actively continuing learning activities when schools are closed for summer break. If children are not engaging in literacy and math activities regularly during summer break, they may lose a percentage of knowledge gained during the previous school year

As the 2017-18 school year began across the U.S., school administrators, counselors and teachers welcomed returning and new smiling faces into their school buildings. Some of these faces are of our nation’s pint-sized heroes: military kids. There are nearly 2 million military-connected children in the United States; 1.2 million are school-aged. Of these, only about 80,000 attend Department of Defense schools on a military installation, meaning that the vast majority of these students attend schools in the communities in which they live.