New Teacher Blog, Math, and a FLASH Freebie!

I am super, off the charts, amazingly excited to be featured on Dana from Common to the Core's New Teacher Blog today! This gal is an AWESOME teacher and librarian-to-be, and she's always trying to help the new kid on the block. Thanks Dana!



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In other news....

Random Amanda fact: My favorite subject to teach is NOT math! I don't know what it is about math, but it's always harder for me to get stations organized and to differentiate. Therefore, I'm making math instruction my priority this year! Every year I pick a certain area to REALLY concentrate on (last year's area was starting Daily 5...BIG success! Yippee!), so I'm starting by creating some math activities.

Here's an addition sort I created to build fluency with number facts from 0+0 to 5+5. Students have  cards that each have an addition problem and a matching picture of unifix cubes. They sort the problems onto number mats based on the sum. There's also a recording sheet students can fill out.

    

I'm selling this in my newly launched TPT store, but it's FREE for the next 48 hours! I hope you can use it in your classroom! If you like it, I would appreciate some TPT love...it will help me build street cred as a seller  =)  THANKS!



Click the pic for a link to TPT...Thanks!