Puzzles, Puzzles, and MORE Puzzles

After having so much fun with all the other puzzles I’ve run across in the last few days (here and here) I decided to hunt for a word search maker. What I found what an awesome teacher resource page from Discovery Education. Not only is there an entire page devoted to making puzzles (math, crossword, [...]

Keeping Multiplication Straight…

Practicing arithmetic can be pretty frustrating at times for student and teacher. It is especially frustrating to know how to do something and repeatedly come up with wrong answers due to sloppy writing techniques.  The best tip I have received over the years was to use graph paper for multiplication and division.  (see example at [...]