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MATHCamp: Avoid The Brain Drain
Summer slide is real and from all accounts, pretty serious. The reading slides are fairly easily remedied, get yourself to the library and get some good books to read. But what about math? Who wants to
Continue readingNumber Bonds and Place Value: An Algebraic Approach in First Grade
Now that the pressure is off to blog through Gattegno's textbook 1, we're actually enjoying math a little bit more as our lessons tend to be directed at what P. is ready to learn. The blog posts are going
Continue readingFacebook Jail – How I Got In And What I Did
If you follow me on Facebook, you know that last week I was sent to Facebook jail. What is Facebook jail? It is when Facebook locks you out of your account or prevents you from using your account for various
Continue readingIntroducing Zero
This is my last official post on Gattegno Textbook 1 which you can get free here. I'm sure we will be back and forth, but my 2 year series has come to a close with the introduction of zero. I'll be doing
Continue readingNumbers In A Series – Another Round of Staircases
One of last things in Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1 is a section on numbers in a series. You can get a free copy online here. If you've been playing with staircases, you'll know that all we are doing
Continue readingMath Composition – Number Studies Wrap-Up
I am nearing the home stretch on Gattegno Textbook 1. It's been nearly two years of blogging on this textbook. We are ending the Number Studies series by writing a math composition. What is a math
Continue readingMultiplication Activities for Number Studies
In the last post on number studies, we started talking about single color trains and a few of the multiplication activities we use to study an individual number. This post will nearly wrap-up single color
Continue readingFor The Love Of Math – GIVEAWAY
I teamed up with Lacy at Play, Discover, Learn and Denise Gaskins of Let's Play Math fame to bring you a fantastic giveaway featuring some of our favorite tools to get you and your family playing with
Continue readingNumber Studies for 11 – Single Color Trains
We're still doing an in-depth look at number studies found in chapter 6 of Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1. You can get the book free by clicking on the image. This post covers single color trains and
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