Elementary Math Chat

Annamarie Krejci, Elementary Math Teacher
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Elementary Math Chat

Elementary Math Chat is a podcast for upper elementary math teachers looking for ideas and resources beyond the book. You’ll hear recommendations for structuring your math block, setting up math centers, and differentiating activities, as well as engagement strategies and classroom management tips. From the first day of school to the last, this podcast will support you with teacher-tested and student-approved ideas that work! Annamarie Krejci (kret-see) is a former 4th and 5th grade math teacher of 20 years and the face behind Krejci Creations. By sharing what she’s learned as a veteran teacher, she hopes to inspire and encourage teachers every step of the way. You can follow her on Instagram @krejci_creations or visit her website at krejcicreations.com.

  1. 21 MAY

    41. Season One is Done! Final Thoughts and Plans For the Future

    Season One is done! I’m so grateful to each and every one of you for joining me each week to hear my favorite teaching tips and ideas around elementary math. I hope I’ve helped make your teacher life much easier, and I’m excited to reflect on what this season has meant to me in this Season One finale. In this episode, I answer a few questions that were submitted in a Q & A survey. I also share my final thoughts and reflections on Season One, my plans for the future of Elementary Math Chat, and one final Teaching Tip of the Week to help you work smarter and not harder to finish your end-of-the-year checklist. Connect with me: Instagram Join my Newsletter Follow my TPT Store To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode41. P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    10 min

  2. 14 MAY

    40. The Countdown is On! 5 End-of-the-Year Activities to Keep Students Engaged

    The countdown is on...summer vacation is right around the corner! With all the special events that fall at the end of the year, the final week of school can be challenging to plan for. Every day has a different schedule, and the amount of instructional time also varies. If you need help planning activities to keep your students engaged until the end, this episode is for you! This week, I share 5 of my favorite end-of-the-year activities to help keep your students engaged during the final week of school. You’ll hear ideas to help you fill anywhere from 5-10 minutes, 20-30 minutes, or 60 minutes to help you plan around special end-of-the-year events. These activities are low prep and fun for everyone involved, including you! I also share an idea for an end-of-the-year gift in this week’s Teaching Tip of the Week. This gift won’t cost you a dime and your students will treasure it for many years to come. Resources Mentioned: Line Plot Project Create a Math Board Game Mystery Person BINGO Episodes Mentioned: Episode 22: 6 Low Prep and Engaging Early-Finisher Activities Episode 33: Testing is Done! 5 Ideas to Plan For a Day of Fun! To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode40. P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    17 min

  3. 7 MAY

    39. Innovative Ways to Keep Kids Learning Math Over the Summer with Melanie Doppler

    Summer is right around the corner, and so are those last-minute requests from parents wanting to know how to prevent the summer slide. This episode is chock-full of ideas to keep kids engaged with math over the summer, which means you'll have plenty of tips to share with your families! This week, Melanie Doppler from Math Coach Connection joins me to discuss simple ways to help families connect math to everyday experiences at home over the summer. She shares clever ways to connect math at mealtime, during a trip to the park, when planning a vacation, and so much more!  These tips will help parents keep the conversation going about math over the summer without the dread of making their children sit down to practice math skills, so grab a pen and paper and get ready to hear some amazing tips to share with your families! To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode39. Connect with Melanie: Instagram Website TPT Store The Dog Ate My Homework Podcast Summer Resources Mentioned: Summer Math Guides 3rd Grade Boot Camp Course Information Direct Link to the Course Summer Math Resources Math Projects: 5th Grade Baseball Math Project 4th Grade Baseball Math Project 2nd Grade Baseball Bat Bandit Math Mystery Math Mysteries: All Mysteries Career Projects: 5th Grade Bundle 4th Grade Bundle 3rd Grade Bundle Party Projects: All Party Projects P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    36 min

  4. 30 APR

    38. Creative Teaching Tips and Ideas for Area and Perimeter Part 2

    This week, I share my favorite teaching tips and ideas for the second half of my area and perimeter unit. Those lessons covered solving for missing dimensions, problem-solving with area, and a review lesson to help students prepare for the test. You’ll hear ideas to help you teach these concepts in a visual and relatable manner, how to incorporate review skills in your small group activities, and fun ways to help students prepare for the test. Don’t miss this week’s Teaching Tip of the Week where I explain how to play one of my favorite multiplication fact games. This game is unpredictable, it’s full of risk, and that’s what makes it so much fun to play! Resources Mentioned: Missing Dimensions Task Cards (used for whole group lesson) Area and Perimeter Riddles Area and Perimeter Review Boom Cards 4th Grade Test Prep Boom Card Bundle Related Resources: Area of Squares and Rectangles Task Cards Missing Dimensions with Perimeter and Area Boom Cards Related Blog Posts How to Make the Most of Review Days To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode38. P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    20 min

  5. 23 APR

    37. Creative Teaching Tips and Ideas for Area and Perimeter Part 1

    Area and perimeter was one of my favorite units to teach. I enjoyed helping students make real-world connections to what they were learning, and they enjoyed imagining that they were planting a garden or painting a bedroom wall. However, this unit came with its fair share of struggles. In my experience, area and perimeter taught in isolation were simple concepts for most students. They began to confuse the two concepts when they got to word problems, mainly because the words area and perimeter were never included in the word problems. Instead, they had to rely on context clues to determine whether to find the area or the perimeter. This was something I embedded into my lessons from the start! This week, I share my favorite teaching tips and ideas for the first three lessons in my area and perimeter unit on perimeter, area, and area of combined rectangles. I share helpful ways to teach students conceptual understanding and creative ways to embed other review skills into your small group activities. In addition, you’ll hear a clever way to help students determine whether to multiply or divide when converting units of measure in the Teaching Tip of the Week. Resources Mentioned: Perimeter of Squares and Rectangles Task Cards To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode37. P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    16 min

  6. 16 APR

    36. Simple Ways to Transform Your Geometry Unit (Part 2)

    Why was the quadrilateral late to school? Why did the right triangle go to the beach? The answers to these fun riddles are included in this week’s episode with even more geometry tips!  This week, I share my favorite teaching tips and activities for the last three lessons in my geometry unit on classifying quadrilaterals, line symmetry, and shape patterns. I share two days of whole group lesson ideas for classifying quadrilaterals, helpful tips and small group ideas for line symmetry, and how I changed my pattern lesson from one I dreaded to one I looked forward to each year.  In addition, you’ll hear a fun idea for a small group extension activity using geoboards in the Teaching Tip of the Week. Resources Mentioned: Classify Quadrilaterals EDITABLE PowerPoint Lesson - 4th Grade Classify Quadrilaterals Better Lesson (Day 1) Symmetry Sort and Solve Growing Pattern Task Cards with Unifix Cubes Episodes Mentioned: Episode 26: Teaching With Unifix Cubes: 5 Math Skills to Pair Them With Related Blog Posts: Classifying Quadrilaterals: Fun Ways to Learn About Our 4-Sided Friends Simple 2-Day Plan to Help Students Classify Quadrilaterals With Confidence To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode36. P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    19 min

  7. 9 APR

    35. Simple Ways to Transform Your Geometry Unit (Part 1)

    Geometry is one of those topics that people either love or hate. I’ll admit, as a student, Geometry wasn’t my favorite. I could work with numbers all day long. But lines, angles, and theorems? It wasn’t my thing.  However, as a teacher, I enjoyed teaching Geometry. It was a nice break from all the fractions and computation we were so used to. But, I was fully aware that my students might have the same dislike for Geometry that I had when I was young. This motivated me to make my Geometry unit as interesting and as engaging as possible. In this week’s episode, I share my favorite ideas for the first three lessons in my Geometry unit, which cover lines and angles, classifying line relationships, and classifying triangles.  These ideas include warm-up activities that will hook your students from the start, simple ways to relate Geometry to Olympic sporting events, kinesthetic games to play, and my favorite small group activities. I also share an idea for how to handle those challenging questions that come at the end of your lesson (when student engagement is low) in the Teaching Tip of the Week. Resources Mentioned: Olympic Skiing and Types of Lines PowerPoint Winter Olympic Athlete and Angles Classify Triangles Sort and Solve Uclid of Alexandria To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode35. P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    14 min

  8. 2 APR

    34. Tips for Building Math Fact Fluency with Danna Rodebush

    Multiplication facts are the building blocks of upper elementary math skills. Yet many students struggle to memorize these facts and rely on counting strategies and multiplication charts instead.  In this episode, Danna Rodebush from Teacher Tech Studio and the host of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast joins me to discuss what fact fluency means, why it is so important, and how teachers can motivate their students to memorize their math facts. Danna also shares a tip for setting up a fluency program and how to involve parents in the Teaching Tip of the Week. Resources Mentioned: Free Math Fact Fluency Master Class Connect with Danna: Teacher Tech Studio Facebook Page Upper Elementary Simplified Facebook Group Teacher Tech Studio Instagram YouTube Channel Teacher Tech Studio Website To view the show notes with the full transcript, head to https://krejcicreations.com/episode34. P.S. Has this podcast been helpful for you? If so, screenshot an episode, add it to IG, and tag me @krejci_creations. This helps spread the word to other teachers!

    19 min
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Elementary Math Chat is a podcast for upper elementary math teachers looking for ideas and resources beyond the book. You’ll hear recommendations for structuring your math block, setting up math centers, and differentiating activities, as well as engagement strategies and classroom management tips. From the first day of school to the last, this podcast will support you with teacher-tested and student-approved ideas that work! Annamarie Krejci (kret-see) is a former 4th and 5th grade math teacher of 20 years and the face behind Krejci Creations. By sharing what she’s learned as a veteran teacher, she hopes to inspire and encourage teachers every step of the way. You can follow her on Instagram @krejci_creations or visit her website at krejcicreations.com.

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  • Creator
    Annamarie Krejci, Elementary Math Teacher
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Krejci Creations, 2023
  • Show Website
    Elementary Math Chat

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