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Let them play to learn!In the classroom or at home ORIGO Education has just the thing to keep learners engaged. All of our print and interactive digital supplemental resources help your students ...
Helping educators create meaningful learning experiences is at the core of an ORIGO Education coaching program. It’s another step to ensure happy-to-learn Pre-K through Grade 6 thinkers at your ...
Research impacts everything we do at ORIGO Education. Discover how John Hattie’s groundbreaking study on Visible Learning has driven the shift from learning skills to students understanding ...
Eratosthenes (air-uh-taws-thuh-neez) was an ancient Greek mathematician who wrote steps to find prime numbers. This process is called the Sieve of Eratosthenes and the free resource activity link ...
Games engage students to help them enjoy math as they learn. But there are many other activities that don’t involve winners and losers that serve to win the hearts — and therefore minds — of ...
Let’s celebrate Pi Day with our fun, interactive ‘Fencing the Circle’ Game! This fun, downloadable resource encourages students to explore the relationship between the circumference...
Please click the thumbnail to download the activity for use in your classroom! Grade 1 – Activities on Fractions – Matching Fractions Grade 2 – Activities on Fractions – ...
All ancient civilizations wrestled with time and breaking the day into parts. The Romans used sundials borrowed from the Egyptians and split the daylight hours into 12 parts. The choice of 12 allowed ...
For children, play is a natural way to explore life and enjoy laughter. The playground or park is a perfect place for that! And most children will not realize they are doing early ...
Once children have done many concrete and pictorial activities to understand the count-on strategy, you can move to the Reinforce stage of the learning progression. In the Reinforce stage, children ...
Children have a natural love for learning and exploring in their daily lives. Did you know one of the best places to support this enthusiasm is riding in a car or in public transportation? Here are ...
They can take the simplest task and turn it into a grand opportunity. This is especially true in the grocery store! Here are some fun, easy-to-do activities that will brighten yours and the child’s ...
To view the blog post related to this resource, please click here: Build a “Mind Picture” for the Make-Ten Addition Strategy” To download the resource, simply click on the image below!
To view the subtraction strategies blog post related to this game resource, please click here: Making Subtraction Efficient – Just Think Addition! To download the resource, simply click on the image...
Problem-solving is an important part of mathematics teaching and learning. It’s also a term which is used in many different ways in mathematics classrooms. We have word problems, rich tasks, ...
The use-tens strategy highlights that 5 is half of 10, so the product of a fives fact will be half of the product of a related tens fact. This strategy enables the students to easily figure out facts ...
To view the blog post related to this resource, please click here: Inspiring Play in Young Learners: Trust the Child’s Play! To download the resource, simply click on the image below!
Here is a list of problem-solving strategies adapted from the book What’s Your Math Problem? by Linda Gojak. To view the blog post related to this resource, please click here: Exploring the ...
When it comes to play in mathematics, there are many avenues you can partake in to ensure children are attaining essential math understanding all while enjoying an activity playfully. You can offer up...
Games are a great way to reinforce and practice number fact strategies. Click on the Resource Hub button below to download the Times This game to play in your classroom. This game practices the ...
The challenge these days is to ensure play does not become a habit involving video games to pass the time. Sometimes you need to help children on their journey of play as this helps their critical ...
To view the blog post related to this resource, please click the following link: Think Multiplication to make Division Facts Easy. To download the resources, simply click on the images below.
What you need: A collection of large 3D objects (cereal boxes, oatmeal cans, etc.) What the children do: Encourage children to build a structure with the 3D materials What the children ...
Download resources used during the NCSM luncheon in the three links below.
Arts-Integration allows all children to succeed in the classroom. It provides an avenue to approach the subject matter in different ways, thus providing more access points for each learner. Aside ...
To read the blog post related to these resources, please click here: Productive Partnerships: Tools and Strategies for Math Leaders Using the below tool, teachers evaluate themselves in each area, ...
Evaluating themselves and setting their own goals for improvement gives teachers ownership. While I did not have this specific tool when I was a principal, I used similar processes while I was in this...
Fun math activities to beat the summer slide! Summer slide is a very real issue, especially in mathematics instruction in which students lose about one month of learning during the break. Beat the ...
The Common Core State Standards for math (CCSSM) clearly states that rigor in math includes a balance of procedural skills and fluency, conceptual understanding, and application. It also states ...
Prior to the launch of ORIGO Insights, I was a guest writer on The Curriculum Corner. In my article, I describe the four language stages (shown below) that promote a deeper understanding of math ...
Evidence suggests that math in the USA is still being taught the same way that you and I learned it. Put simply, we should be looking to those countries that continually outperform the US to see what ...
To read the blog post related to this resource, please click here Visual Models in Mathematics: The First Images (Part 1) To download the resource, simply click on the image below:
A numeral expander is a simple and effective way to help students interpret and write numbers because it links the concrete image to the abstract symbols. To read our blog post on using ...
Click to download your black lines master line activities for the classroom! To read our blog post on how to best utilise this activity, please click here: Visual Models in Mathematics: The Importance...
Please click below to read our related blog post on these resources: Visual Models in Mathematics: Using Math Graphic Organizers to Build Powerful Ideas (Part 4)
Bears on Buses is an ORIGO Big Book, developed for using language to develop concepts of Addition. Please refer to the blog post below to see its benefit in a learning environment: Using Language ...
