The Flexibility Formula 3-5 Course Registration

You have kiddos who have 'learned' the multiplication strategies, yet still revert back to skip counting.
You have students who can tell you that 3/4 means "3 out of 4," but don't really understand that it represents 3 one-fourth pieces.
You have students who know how to add and subtract, but struggle to think flexibly about the numbers.
And then there are those kiddos who just don't get it—and you're left wondering what they're missing and what you can do differently.

You know there's more to teaching math than showing students another strategy.

The missing piece in math fluency is flexibility

We want students to be able to look at numbers, see relationships, and choose strategies that make sense.

But here's the thing: we can't simply teach kids to "be flexible" with numbers.

Flexibility develops through the experiences students have with numbers and the connections they learn to see.

That's what The Flexibility Formula is designed to help you build.

You'll learn how number sense develops, how to recognize the foundational understandings your students may be missing, and how to use what you observe in their thinking to decide what they need next.

And some of those missing pieces may go back further than you think.

You'll explore the 4 Early Numeracy Concepts—Subitizing, Verbal Counting, Object Counting, and Cardinality—and the 4 Number Relationships—Spatial Relationships, One/Two More & Less, Benchmark Numbers, and Part-Part-Whole.

These aren't just "little kid" skills. They're foundational understandings that students continue to rely on as they work with larger numbers, operations, multiplication and division, and fractions.

Most importantly, you'll learn how to turn that understanding into instruction—using experiences, questions, activities, and games that help students make connections and become more flexible with numbers.

So instead of creating students who can simply calculate, you'll be building mathematical thinkers.

Participants will become knowledgeable about instructional practices that build connections around number and increase student flexibility. You will learn the content, methods, and materials necessary to develop number sense in 3rd-5th Grade. You will become familiar with assessing through observation and using children’s thinking to guide instruction. You will develop an understanding of the framework for children’s development of number sense. Overall, you will become more confident in your ability to teach mathematics.

I have 4 wonderful children and I thank the Lord that He changed the way I thought about mathematics before they arrived in my life so that I could provide math experiences for them, instead of math flash cards.
I call myself a Recovering Traditionalist. I was a very traditional learner and teacher....give me an algorithm and I could solve it....give me any mental math or story problems and I would start sweating.
I believe in the power of a positive and growth mindset (for ourselves and our kiddos). Failure is often how we learn our best lessons...yet we try too hard to not let our students fail in class. Feeding them step-by-step directions on how to solve mathematics problems is NOT truly mathematics.
My mother was my junior high English teaher and she wood probably have a heart atack if she ever red any thing I put out....well, except for the first book i published (she was my editer). I donut take the time to be gramatically corect and nothin' is ever prefect {I would rather spend my time with my kids than ensure I wrote a complete sentence or speled all the wurds in this paragraf correctly ;).

Throughout Flexibility Formula 3rd-5th, I will be talking a lot about making the concepts visual for your students. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easy way to do that??? Well, there is! When you register for the course you will be given a document full of all the visual images I use inside the course, plus a video on how to use the image pack to create the visuals your students need to see.

Not only do you get visuals for multiplication, but you get visuals for multi-digit numbers and fractions as well! All fully editable!

Want the missing piece to build your students' math fluency?

You want your students to do more than just follow the steps

You want them to understand the math, make connections, and think flexibly—even when a problem looks different from the one you showed them. But getting them there isn't easy.

You're ready to get excited again about teaching math!!.

By the end of The Flexibility Formula, you'll know what to look for, what your students need, and what to do next.

What you'll learn

There are four parts to building students’ flexibility:

The missing piece in math fluency is flexibility

The 4 Modules of the course:

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