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Video Topics:
1. Understanding Multiplication & Learning Multiplication Facts
2. Math Story Read Alouds (Adding up to 10)
3. Teaching Pre-Schoolers Math: What Grownups Need To Know (but often don't)
1. Understanding Multiplication & Learning Multiplication Facts
(To get to the YouTube videos, just click on the links below)
- Understand Multiplication! Understanding multiplication makes it so much easier to learn lots of multiplication facts without memorizing... we just "know" what the answer has to be!
- Why It Matters...That Order Doesn't Matter! (i.e., the "commutative property" of multiplication). By understanding this, it cuts the multiplication facts we need to learn almost in half.
- "x 9" Multiplication Facts--Longer Version. In this longer video, we help a child discover on their own the "secret code" that unlocks all the "x 9" multiplication facts.
- "x 9" Multiplication Facts--Shorter Version. In this shorter video, we share the "secret code" that unlocks all the "x 9" multiplication facts."
- "x 1" Multiplication Facts--You Know Them Already! If a child understands multiplication, they already know all their "x 1" multiplication facts. This video explains why.
Other Taming The Multiplication Monster videos are under construction . . . stay tuned!
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Math Story Read Alouds! (Adding up to 10)
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Looking for a read-aloud math story about adding to 10 or adding up to 9? Well, look no further. Below are links to the read-aloud versions of:
- Ten Friends Save The Day! (Add to 10). This fun math adventure showcases the pairs of numbers that add to 10. It lets the reader use add-to-10 addition facts to help the numbers solve a vexing problem.
- Adding Fun! (Add up to 9). In this entertaining math story, the numbers show off their talents as they audition to join the circus.
If you like the read-aloud versions, check out the coloring and activity book versions of the stories. They offer lots of opportunities to practice key addition facts. (Links to the books on Amazon are in the "BOOKS" tab.)
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Teaching Pre-Schoolers Math! What Grownups Need To Know (But Often Don't)
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- Teaching pre-schoolers math?
- These videos are a must because ...
- ...a lot of what grownups do to help little children learn math doesn't work as well as we think it does.
- As a result, many child are left with gaps in their math foundation that can make it almost impossible for them to understand math.
- Let's not do that!
In these videos (just click on the links) you'll learn:
- Why overemphasizing rote counting can be a big problem!
- What "subitizing" is (the ability to recognize the size of a group without counting) and why subitizing is an early math superpower!
- To teach subitizing effectively (Teaching Subitizing: Part A; Teaching Subitizing: Part B).
- To teach counting so it is mathematically meaningful (i.e., just being able to say the numbers in order while pointing to objects is not mathematically meaningful counting...learn why and what comprises mathematically meaningful counting)