Easy and Effective Activities for the Busy Teacher. Lessons for Equal Group Word Problems. I find that the bar model is an effective tool to help students better understand equal groups and figure out if they need to multiply or divide in an equal group word problem. If they need to know the whole, they place a question mark in the answer box and multiply. If they need to know the part, they put a? In the bar and divide. For some examples of math day activities and a blank planning form.

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and, you know, other stuff. Friday, September 28, 2012. Red Sox and Silver Linings. In fact, I had to rely on Aristotle to do it. To get what I mean, we have to go back eight years ago, to the waning minutes of October 17, 2004.

Saturday, August 1, 2015. I used to think , but now I know . So much literacy learning took place this summer at Columbia.

I would always find cool stuff on the internet, and instantly think of ways it could be used in the classroom. I decided to start sharing all that info! Here are tips and tricks, I hope you can find them useful too! Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Fliggo For Better Video Posting. Monday, July 6, 2009.