Excellent number talk conversations in Mrs. Sanders’ K class ⁦Indian Valley Elem.⁩ ⁦Cindy Cleveland⁩ ⁦Michele Eller, PhD⁩ ⁦AMSTI_UM⁩ ⁦AMSTI⁩

Ms. Johnson’s second graders are enjoying working on math strategies in stations this week. Indian Valley Elem. AMSTI_UM AMSTI

Kindergarten station fun! Indian Valley Elem. AMSTI_UM AMSTI Cindi Thornbury Caprice Buttram

Counting Collections happening in Mrs. Baumgartner’s class! Indian Valley Elem. AMSTI_UM AMSTI Haley Baumgartner Michele Eller, PhD Caprice Buttram

Kindergarten is having fun working with numbers! Indian Valley Elem. AMSTI_UM AMSTI Michele Eller, PhD Caprice Buttram

Enjoyed helping with this real world task to see how many beans were in a bag. Making groups of ten, combining tens to make groups of hundreds, using base-10 pictures to show our work two ways…so many standards were reached! AMSTI_UM AMSTI Alabama State Department of Education Michele Eller, PhD

Kindergarten is rocking small group rotations and October centers! AMSTI_UM AMSTI Indian Valley Elem. Caprice Buttram

1st graders in Ms. McClendon’s class are working on making sense of word problems. Indian Valley Elem. AMSTI_UM AMSTI Alabama State Department of Education Caprice Buttram Michele Eller, PhD

Centering your math program around fact fluency is like centering your reading program around spelling. Problem solving is to math what comprehension is to reading. Balance is key!

2nd Grade Math and Literacy Night was a “Super Hero” success! AMSTI_UM AMSTI Indian Valley Elem. Michele Eller, PhD Caprice Buttram

Students in Ms Sanders’s kindergarten class had fun participating in Measure It Monday activities today! #ominumeracynovember AMSTI_UM Indian Valley Elem. Michele Eller, PhD Office of Mathematics Improvement

Shape Up Tuesday Fun! Shape number talks, reading aloud “The Shape of Things”, shape activities in stations, and creating class shape books…we had fun exploring shapes all day! Indian Valley Elem. Office of Mathematics Improvement AMSTI_UM Michele Eller, PhD Caprice Buttram #ominumeracynovember

“One-derful Wednesday”! We celebrated everything to do with our names today. Indian Valley Elem. AMSTI_UM Office of Mathematics Improvement Michele Eller, PhD Caprice Buttram #ominumeracynovember

Throwback Thursday fun in kindergarten! Clocks and More Clocks for number talks and games! We’ve loved Numeracy November activities this week! #ominumeracynovember Indian Valley Elem. AMSTI_UM Office of Mathematics Improvement Michele Eller, PhD Caprice Buttram

Wonderful day of counting collections in Mrs. Ballard’s 2nd grade class. They focused on organizing, grouping by tens, making 100, being efficient, and drawing to show their collections. They did a great job and had so much fun!

2nd grade students did a wonderful job solving one of Graham Fletcher’s 3 Act Task - Whopper Jar AMSTI AMSTI_UM Indian Valley Elem. Caprice Buttram

Mrs. Thornbury’s kindergarten class enjoys math stations! Routines are so important, and it’s obvious Mrs. Thornbury’s students know exactly what to do…and have fun doing it! AMSTI_UM AMSTI Indian Valley Elem. Michele Eller, PhD Caprice Buttram

Mrs. Green’s first grade class is rocking number talks and addition strategies! Great thinking! AMSTI_UM AMSTI Indian Valley Elem. Caprice Buttram

Mrs Baumgartner’s 2nd graders having fun during math! They did a great job noticing patterns when counting by 10s from any number during their choral count. Also enjoying fluency games to help learn those math facts! AMSTI_UM AMSTI Indian Valley Elem. Caprice Buttram

Kindergarten students in Ms. Frank’s and Ms. Hendrix’s classes are having fun exploring their counting standards in stations today.