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While apprenticeship one of her appropriate apprenticeship acceptance who struggled with multiplication facts, Peiffer Elementary Academy abecedary Karen Allen saw a way to use kids’ affection for sequences to put them on a advance against ability of basal math.
Just as acceptance could await on the “A-B-C Song” to advice them admit a accidental letter, they could administer a “sequence strategy” to advice them butt multiplication, she observed. So she actually put that abstraction into motion and crafted a alternation of concrete activities which, accumulated with simple chants and songs, helped kids apprentice to calculation by twos, fours, sixes — all the way up to 12s.
Students can again administer that sequencing action to break multiplication problems, while accepting fun and accepting some exercise in the process.
And that, she says, was “the cement that fabricated it stick.”
She activated the adjustment to acceptance she was tutoring, again to her appropriate ed acceptance and now to a array of kids in grades 3 through 6 throughout the Jeffco school. Over months of analysis and balloon and error, she tweaked the action and fabricated it adjustable to all sorts of situations. One of her co-workers alike did a master’s apriorism on the program.
She has aggregate aggregate into a book, “Movin’ Through Multiplication,” that she affairs to broadcast this summer.
Teachers absorbed in the action can email her at kalallen@jeffco.k12.co.us.____________
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