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Combining physical and virtual manipulatives gives students the ability to concretely model things in the real world.
Hoping to help your fifth-grader with math skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest for fifth-graders. As the math they’re learning becomes more complicated and less obviously connected ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – On a mid-October day, Mr. John Whelan is playing a video on rounding numbers for his class. As the video finishes and Mr. Whelan begins the lesson, Zoey expresses her worries and ...
Laura Bolick's fifth-grade math class at Maud Elementary has something to crow about. Her whole class, all 32 students, passed their STAAR math exam recently. "They all passed. 100 percent passed the ...
This week’s Educator of the Week has spent nearly her entire career at East Side Elementary. The 5th-grade class at East Side Elementary is filled with a flurry ...
“The only way to close achievement gaps is to slow down the fast learners.” Compared to other disciplines, mathematics has a much smaller number of concepts to learn. As a result, the students with ...
DUBLIN, Ga. — Mrs. Pamela Woodard has been teaching for 30 years and currently teaches 4th and 5th grade math at Irish Gifted Academy in Dublin. Her students say she makes learning fun and always ...
Malinda Evans spends about an hour and a half each day teaching mathematics to her 5th graders at Navajo Elementary School in the working-class South Valley neighborhood of Albuquerque, N.M. Whether ...
These boys and girls are proof positive that when it comes to education, West Virginia is not 50th in everything. These fifth graders at Kenna Elementary School recently captured first place in a ...