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Math Essentials for Every Primary Classroom

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When I was in undergrad, I was soooo nervous about teaching math . My oh my, how that�s changed. I would teach primary math all day if I could now. I absolutely LOVE it. There are a handful of tools that I�ve found super helpful when teaching math, so today I thought I�d share with you a few of my favorite MATH ESSENTIALS! #1 � Magnetic Base Ten Pieces from Learning Resources Before I had these magnetic base ten pieces , I used to hot glue magnets to the back of my foam base ten blocks and it was a disaster. The day I got these it was like Christmas! I�ve used them a few different ways. One year, my calendar area was housed on a dry erase board, so I used these for counting the number of days in school during calendar time. #2 � Number Line, Tens Frames, and Hundreds Chart Dry Erase Boards I never knew I was missing out until I got these dry erase boards from Education by Oriental Trading. Each board is two-sided, and the part I love the most is the number ...

Printing Posters & Mini-Posters At Home

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Hey, hey! Today I wanted to share with you all a few at home printing tips for you to make your posters BIG and mini! With just a few clicks on Adobe Reader before you print, you can enlarge or make tiny anything you want! Now, obviously it would be easiest to just send my posters to Staples and have them print them nice and big for me, but that's not really in the budget. Sorry, I'm not spending $10 for that. So, here's how to do it at home! Open your file in Adobe Reader. In the printer options that come up, you'll want to select POSTER and change the Tile Scale. I've found that 180% fits my posters on four pages. You can play with the percent to make it bigger or smaller. The dotted lines on the image below show you that this poster will print on four pages. Once you adjust the settings and print it, your poster should come out looking similar to this. I don't like to cut all of the sides. I leave a few tabs of white so I can overlap the pages. I put double-s...