Thank you to the teachers that piloted the program and allowed me to share their classrooms with you!

Why is Everyday Math important? Throughout the program the lessons incorporate real-world settings and situations as to when and how students use math outside of school. These ideas are the essential questions of why we are teaching each concept to our students!

This is a list from a 2nd grade classroom!

When teachers found out they were going to be piloting the Everyday Math series many expressed concern about how to manage all of its components. Through diligence on their part they researched and found ways to manage their classrooms to fit their personal styles and the needs of their students.

To assist you in a smooth implementation of the new math series, I thought it would help if you could see what they have done during their pilot. Please understand that these are all working classrooms where students are using the materials so may not be as neat and orderly as some of the teachers would like it to be

Each day the students take a count of how many boys and girls are present in class and turn this into a number sentence that they solve. I have to say it was enlightening to go into her classroom and have her students share with me all of the truly AMAZING things they are able to do mathematically. I was shocked at their ability to count, skip count, add, and problem solve!

Students are using popsicle sticks to count the days of school. Small ones are the individual day and then they are exchanging ten small sticks with a large one for groups of 10. They were able to count 10, 20, 30…then 141, 142, 143, 144 without hesitation.

Her class is also counting down until the end of the school year by erasing a tally mark and changing the day number.

At the start of the year it is encouraged that in the lower grades color your Number Grid to help students know which number comes next when you reach the end of the row, example after 10 comes 11 so color those the same. They have also circled the 5s and 10s as they have been working with skip counting.

THE PROGRAM GUIDES YOU THROUGH SETTING UP CLASSROOM HELPERS. JOBS ARE CALENDAR, NUMBER

OF THE DAY, ATTENDANCE, LINE LEADER, ETC. YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE SQUARES & TRIANGLES STUDENTS BUILT

USING STRAWS AND PIPE CLEANERS.

TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HER MORNING AND

AFTERNOON CLASSES SHE HAS STUDENTS NAMES WRITTEN ON EITHER A

YELLOW (AM) OR GREEN (PM) CARD

The Number Line hung on the windows of the classroom for students to work with each day. They use a post-it on the number line to identify odds/evens and the multiples of 10 with a star.

THERE ARE 4 BOOKS THAT GET SENT HOME FOR THE

FAMILY, ENTITLED MATHEMATICS AT HOME THE BOOK CONTAINS VARIOUS ACTIVITIES

THAT THE FAMILY CAN DO WITH THE CHILD AT HOME THAT ARE MATHEMATICAL.

This isn’t a part of the program but something worthwhile to share…rather than use a paper spinner with pictures of coins, she used a clear spinner and taped actual coins to the back of it so students recognize shape and colors of the coins.

Jen put old storage bags from a previous program to good use! She relabeled them with student names and made them their individual kit filled with money, base ten blocks, geometry templates, dominos, etc.

Jen uses the corner of her room to keep the manipulatives in order. The bins that they come in work well to keep her classroom organized and easy to access whenever they need to.

Games are kept in a storage bin ready for student use with the game pieces as well. She keeps the templates in commnicators for them to use, as well as game boards.

As you get ready to implement a new math curriculum, look around your room and see what items you can repurpose for organizational use. Here are paint dishes that work perfectly to give out coins and dice for the game students were playing that day!

All manipulatives are kept in the “Math Corner” within the storage bins that come with your classroom kits!

The number line is hung around the room and continues throughout the year. Each day the date is written and the words to represent the number to make the connection to the students the verbal to the numerical representation. This is also a way to track the day number of school, as you can see the weekend dates are not included.

The number line keeps going…

Also shown is a list of items that students generated to show equal groups of items.

The poster below is part of the Everyday Math program kit which you will receive that shows where you should be each month and what topics based on strand you will be covering. Great work by Ms. Hagan and Ms. Disipio that they are right on pace the first year using the program!

The number line is long, so be prepared to let it wrap around your

classroom!

The top portion of this cubby is for individual student manipulative boxes (the blue and pink ones). The black ones at the bottom are for the group when they play games. The cases were purchased by the teacher at a Staples type store when they were on sale for an incredible price over the summer! Other teachers have used various storage tools like old baby wipe containers, shoe boxes, etc.

There are often times when individual students need to have their own manipulatives. They are kept in their individual student kits. Items such as money, fact triangles, a clock, fraction cards, arrays, etc. are kept here.

Jeana also found it helpful to pull any manipulatives that they would need throughout a given unit at the beginning of the unit and have it in the student bins ready for when they are needed.

Group/team bins are also needed for various games. These supplies are kept within the group bins. ***A tip MOST teachers found useful was to mark their cards. You will each receive multiple decks of cards at the start of the year. No matter how organized you can be it is inevitable that they will get lost or separated from the rest of the deck. The easiest means of putting it back in its correct deck is to mark the entire deck somehow. As you can see in the picture they made this deck the orange deck. The teacher put 2 orange dots on the box and while the deck was all together stacked put two dots on the edge. That way when they are lost she knows where the card belongs. It takes some time in the beginning but is worth it all year long!

Each day the teacher erases the date and updates it. This allows students to see how to represent the date in multiple ways. She uses a laminated piece of paper so they can use a dry erase marker on it to quickly change (it also then saves room on your chalkboard)

Students can recognize and begin to develop their understanding of numbers and their magnitudes through identifying the temperature each day. This is a poster that comes with your program in 2nd grade.

Here is another

thermometer for daily

use.

After a game has been played the teacher keeps the game with all of its needed components in a large zip lock bag for students to easily access. So in the bags are the game directions, blank game record sheets, and any other supply they will need (this one had coins and plastic plates). The bags are then stored in a cubby area of the classroom for easy student use.

Other games are stored in a folder that she laminated. On the cover and/or inside are the needed materials and Record Sheets. Games stored this way are ones in which the manipulatives needed are very generic and used in many games therefore keeping all of the items needed with it isn’t feasible. Those would be materials kept in the classroom for use in a great variety of ways.

The closet…since School 2 had to have some items replaced earlier in the year, they now have a great storage area in their closet. Janelle has opted to use the storage bins above the coat rack for their individual math bins.

Inside their math bins are various tools that they are using on a regular basis.

The Number Grid is kept in an easily accessible location for both the students and the teacher to use. It is laminated in order to use dry erase markers on it that can wipe off. And yes, that does expose students in 2nd grade to negative numbers, the thermometer also helps with this.

Part of the Everyday Math program has students assigned jobs, the calendar and also charting the daily temperatures. This is kept on the front bulletin board next to the chalk board so it is in a usable place for students to see and work with.

TALLY CHART OF THE WEATHERBAR GRAPH OF THE TEMPERATURES