One of the earliest math skills kids learn is to count. It's such a joy to witness too, as kids joyfully and excitedly count literally all.the.things. But what comes after counting? Well, lots of things, but today I want to focus particularly on skip counting. What is skip counting? It's counting by skipping some of the numbers. For example, counting by 2 means skipping every other number: 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. But why does this matter? This is an Keep Reading...
{FREE} Least Common Multiple Practice for Grades 4-6
It's crazy how connected math is. Often children struggle in higher math because they didn't fully grasp a concept from earlier years. Children probably aren't going to understand decimals without understanding what a fraction is. Can they grasp the concept of negative numbers and not have good number sense? What about adding fractions without common denominators when they don't know their multiplication times tables? Every lesson in math is an Keep Reading...