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 At the beginning of each year we do a multiplication inventory with our fifth grade class, and every year there are close to half the students that can not pass the inventory in the time allotted. This always makes us scratch our heads, because we know that multiplication is essential in doing division which is a major focus of 5th grade. There ...

All of the information of High Yield instruction comes from this website: http://commonsensemath.com/researchbasedstrategies.php The strategies allow teachers, students and parents to be implemented naturally.  A few of the good ideas I took from the website are featured below along with the anatomy of effective lesson delivery. Ruby Payne's ...

It has been a while since the last post, so as a little ''I'm sorry,'' I will post all the differentiating materials I have accumulated over the past few weeks.  This may be a little overkill, but you can use the materials as you wish and coming up with the different methods of using them is half the fun.  So until my next post, happy ...