Math Chat + Math Giveaway

Hey everyone! I'm linking up today with Ashley from Just Reed to talk about math.

Math is actually one of my favorite things to teach. My district adopted an unusual math text about three years ago. To say it was an adjustment is a bit of an understatement.

My district adopted Math in Focus The Singapore Approach.

I was introduced into some new things. 

Number Bonds....in chapter 2. I know that they don't look hard but we pretty much start these in August and before addition.

{screen cap from Think Central}

This was difficult. Math in Focus wasn't very popular when we adopted it and it's slowly (like snail slow) growing in popularity. Well, I'm not here to review if for you...if you want that email me ;) 

Needless to say we've had to come up with some supplementals along the way. 

we made construction paper number bonds to use our manipulatives

I put number bonds into each math center I create (progressively getting more difficult)

Here's a link to a Number Bond freebie (picture below) 

I also created math journals for the first 5 or so chapters of the math book. 

check them out here

These are a few of the things I've done to supplement our math. There are also some GREAT pinterest and blog finds I've used. 

I'll be making these for visual cues this year:

{source: This is just a pinned image so I'm not sure of the original author}

{freebie! source}

I really have a ton of Pinterest finds so if you want to follow me on Pinterest I have two boards that contain math ideas Classroom Ideas and my new one--because I'm trying to organize--Math for K-2

I purchased (and use daily) Cara's Calendar Companion

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I purchased this from Reagan from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits (and the kiddos loved it)

I really just try to make math enjoyable and interactive. I use manipulatives when I can, games when I can, fun phrases when I can, technology when I can, and like I mentioned in my last post--whiteboards...A LOT!

This year I'm going to try incorporating more literacy into math.  I want to do more writing about what we've done, how we came to our answer, and I want to read more books that have math themes. 

Have any of you used this book?

{from Amazon}

or these?

Math Start from Stuart J. Murphy

Well, if you sat through all of that, I'm impressed. 

I'm also participating in a giveaway for BlogLovin' followers!

Since this was a math post I'm going to give away my four Math Journals

check them out here

A second winner will receive their choice of items from my TpT Store

a Rafflecopter giveaway