Teaching Resources by Shelley Gray

Here are 5 fun ways to use a multiplication chart in your classroom! I've also included some free multiplication charts for you!

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Here's a fun way to encourage reasoning in your classroom! These puzzles can be used for early finishers, as a center activity, or in small groups! They are available for Grades 1-6 students.

See them all here: https://rebrand.ly/gv89pd7

Here's what teachers are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ " These reasoning puzzles are great as a math warm-up, morning meeting activity, or as a work sample throughout the day. It has been great to hear the conversations my students are having to reason out what works!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I love using this resource with my gifted students and listening to them reason and justify their answers."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ "What a great activity to help develop understanding with equal parts, fractions, and number sense!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ "It can be hard to find math challenges that don't require a ton of independent reading for this age, so these were great for my kiddos that struggle with reading!"

This is a two-player card game that you can use as reinforcement for addition or multiplication.

See the instructions here: https://ed.gr/eb6jk

Looking for some bright times tables posters to reinforce the multiplication facts in your classroom? These simple posters come in two different versions (facts to 10x10 and facts to 12x12), so you can choose the version that best suits your curriculum.

This resource also includes student reference cards for the times tables. Put these on a ring so students can flip to the set of facts they need, or paste in student notebooks for quick reference.

Lastly, this resource includes four different multiplication charts:

- multiplication facts to 12x12 (filled multiplication chart)
- multiplication facts to 12x12 (blank multiplication chart)
- multiplication facts to 10x10 (filled multiplication chart)
- multiplication facts to 10x10 (blank multiplication chart)

These posters will make a great supplement as you teach multiplication facts for mastery in your classroom.

See them here: https://ed.gr/ecyxb

Do you ever have an awkward few minutes of time in your classroom until the bell rings for recess or a few minutes at the end of the day that needs to be filled before chaos ensues?

It’s not enough time to really get in to any deep learning or catch up on assignments, but you also want to keep this time productive. Having a “grab bag” of ideas that you can do in short periods of time will help you keep these transition times manageable and ensure that learning is still taking place.

Here are eight different classroom time filler activities that will keep students engaged and learning! They can also be used as brain breaks!

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Constant difference is one of my favorite mental math strategies for subtraction. When we use constant difference, we adjust both the minuend and subtrahend by the same amount to make one of them "friendly." This results in a simpler problem, making it easier to solve mentally! Here are all the details you need about the constant difference (or same difference) strategy, along with helpful models to use for teaching.

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Ten frames are often used for addition and subtraction in early elementary, but they can be equally as effective for multiplication or division in upper elementary!

Here are three effective ways to use ten frames in the upper elementary classroom.

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Doubles occur all around us in real life. Think about fingers and toes (5+5), egg cartons (6+6) or the wheels on a car (2+2). For this reason, most students find it easy to remember the doubles facts.

When students know the doubles facts, they can use them to figure out other nearby facts. For example, if a student knows 6+6, then 6+7 can easily be figured out by adding one more.

Knowing the doubles facts makes many other addition strategies easier!

This strategy unit includes a wide variety of materials to teach the doubles in a conceptual and engaging way!

Here's what other teachers are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This is great! So many different ways to practice the skill with my students."

⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This really helped my students understand the concept of doubling. They've enjoyed working through it."

See it here:

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Arrays help us visualize repeated addition or multiplication. They are essential to multiplication understanding because they give students a visual representation of equal groups. Arrays are also very effective for teaching the commutative and distributive properties.

Here are a few ways that you can use arrays in your classroom to allow your students the opportunity to really SEE multiplication: https://ed.gr/ea9qs

So you're ready to implement mental math addition and subtraction strategies this year, but aren't sure where to start! It can be overwhelming - counting on, doubles, left-to-right addition, compensation, breaking apart numbers, and so much more - how can you teach these mental math concepts strategically so that more of your students can develop addition and subtraction fact fluency?

These extensive units for Mental Math Strategies dive into all the major addition and subtraction strategies for true fact fluency. The goal is not to memorize the facts but to develop the flexibility that will allow students to solve problems effectively and efficiently while developing fact fluency.

Your students work toward flexible thinking and fact fluency while learning different strategies for addition and subtraction.

Each unit contains a wealth of material to teach the specific mental math strategy so your students can build their understanding in many different ways.

What are other teachers saying?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This is all I've ever wanted for mental math. It's got virtually every strategy from basic to more tricky and well thought out lessons, activities and centres. This is by far the best product I've found in 15 years of teaching for teaching students mental math. All in one place, it's everything you need!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Students enjoyed the variety of creative activities and all benefited from the review of mental math strategies. I've looked for something like this for a long time! This resource made addition/subtraction strategies easy to teach. Well worth it."

See the Mental Math Addition & Subtraction Bundle here:

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