Integers was the topic of study in this week's math class. Although dealing with negative numbers can sometimes be stressful to some students, we discovered several ways to make adding and subtraction with positive and negative numbers fun.  Our first activity revolved around a game called Integer Football. Although I am not a fan of sports in the least, I did find this...

Fractions don't seem to be the most popular topic with students, and I can certainly relate. It's not that I find fractions to be extremely challenging, but rather that I do not find them to be particularly engaging.  For whatever reason, fractions often felt abstract to me, and I did not enjoy comparing them. As many young students will affirm, it is sometimes...

There were two themes to our learning this week in math class. The more obvious theme was Whole Number Operations. We (re)learned how to add, subtract, cross multiply and complete long division. While these operations probably should have been easy to complete, I'd be lying if I said I didn't quickly Google how to properly do long division. It's been a very long...