I have decided to make a series of tutorial videos to help my students with math concepts. The video I am sharing today, was created during the emergency distance learning period of the last school year 2019/2020. It is a very straightforward video that explains students exactly what they have to do when solving simple equations. It was just the little push my students needed Read More
I’m back! – Math Videos for Online Teaching
I can’t believe it has been almost 2 years since I last wrote in this blog! Life has been incredibly busy. I am now a classroom teacher (not a substitute anymore), and I am teaching grade 6 at the moment. My heart is still set on younger grades, but I am having fun teaching 6. This year things got even more complicated with Covid-19. What Read More
Telling Time – The Hour Hand
For the last couple of months, I have been working on developing my “Telling Time” collection of teaching resources. My need to develop this collection was born out of necessity when some of my tutoring students were showing difficulties with their telling time skills. As I worked with different students I noticed a few common misconceptions. I also came across a couple of websites and blogs Read More
Building Blocks and Place Value
Recently, while tutoring a group of grade 2 students, I realized that some of them were having a hard time understanding the value of each digit when representing 2-digit numbers. For example, when asked to represent the number 23, they would draw 2 hearts and 3 squares. When I asked them to use Base-Ten blocks, they knew to use 2 rods and 3 units, however, Read More
One More YouTube Presentation – Subitizing
Hi everyone! I just wanted to leave you a quick note to let you know that I have published another YouTube presentation. This one is also on subitizing but goes more into detail about its importance in early childhood education. I hope you enjoy it! Take care, Catia
YouTube Channel and a Math Video
I’ve done it! I finally opened my own YouTube channel and have posted my first (experimental) video!!!!!! I am so thrilled! Please take a look at it and let me know what you think 😀 Take care, Catia
A Note About Subitizing
If I were to show you a bowl containing apples and asked how many you see, you would probably have little trouble telling me the correct number. How does that happen? Why does our brain recognize the number of apples in the bowl without the need to count them one by one? This skill is called subitizing and it is the ability of looking at a Read More