Category: Homeschool

As a teacher, one of the most important aspects of fostering a successful learning environment is understanding the unique personalities of your students. Every child learns differently, and knowing how to adapt your teaching style to fit these personalities can make a big difference in engagement, motivation, and classroom management. One useful tool for understanding…

Decimal place value is sometimes difficult for students to grasp because it introduces concepts and words similar but different from those students have already learned. Then it puts those same concepts in reverse order. When learning place value, students have already learned ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, and get bigger.  Now “-ths” is added to the…

A few years ago, I learned some interesting statistics about how summer vacation impacts a child’s knowledge retention. Between 70% and 78% of students experience a decline in math skills over the summer across elementary grades. The summer between 5th and 6th grades is one of the worst, where 84% of students demonstrate summer slide…

Do you have a fourth grader learning place value to one million? Here’s a quick idea on how to make it more fun. Create a color coded place value mat. Then use uno cards that match each color to teach the place value. Start by teaching just the ones. Refresh on saying the random numbers…