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    From Confusion to Clarity: Techniques for Educators to Teach Adding and Subtracting Unlike Mixed Numbers

    • by Giselle Rivera
    Subtract unlike mixed numbers using visual models and regrouping or ungrouping or decomposing

    Adding and subtracting mixed numbers with unlike fractions is one of those math concepts that can quickly become confusing for students. It’s not that they can’t do the math—it’s that there are so many steps involved! Between finding a common denominator, converting mixed numbers, regrouping, and simplifying, it’s easy for students to get lost along […]

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    How to Teach Geography: Hands-On and Visual Strategies for Elementary Students

    • by Giselle Rivera
    A boy and girl looking at a globe

    If you’re teaching geography this year—whether in the classroom or at home—you already know how hard it can be for students to name and identify the continents, remember where the oceans are, or identify major countries. Over the years, I’ve refined a routine that helps students retain what they have learned about geography by combining […]

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    Engaging Native American Unit Ideas & Activities for Elementary Classrooms

    • by Giselle Rivera
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    Teaching the Native American Unit in elementary school is one of my favorite Social Studies lessons. But with so many possible hands-on activities, the unit seems to just go on forever. If you were to do every fun and engaging activity that goes along with teaching American Indians, you could seriously teach it for months. In […]

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