A comprehensive review of large number place value up to billions, featuring a high-speed video challenge and a research-based extension into trillions and beyond. Students move from rapid recognition to structural analysis of number periods.
Introduces early 3-digit numbers (100-120), visual skip-counting (2s, 5s, 10s) using constellation maps, and ordering cosmic objects to build sequential logic.
Focuses on identifying double-digit numbers (10-99), representing them using ten-frames and printable base-ten icons, and writing numbers in expanded place value charts (tens and ones) with clear physical boundaries.
Covers single-digit subtraction (1-9) with cosmic countdowns, crossing-out stars or rocket fuel cells, embedded touch-points for backwards counting, and structured workspace templates.
Focuses on single-digit addition (1-9) using embedded touch-point numbers, pictorial representations of spaceships and stars, a persistent 1-20 number path, and large guided workspace boxes for physical alignment.
Week 4 is the capstone week where students synthesize their additive and subtractive decimal skills in the context of money. They solve multi-step commercial transactions, balance credit records, and purchase starship upgrades.
Week 3 focuses on partitioning, equivalent fractions, and adding or subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators. Students practice fair-sharing reactor cores, dividing cargo weight, and mapping stellar orbits using fraction bars.
Week 2 focuses on mastering whole-number regrouping and multi-column carrying in the context of starship cargo inventories. Students use base-10 blocks to bundle ones into tens and tens into hundreds, bridging visual modeling directly to standard vertical algorithms.
Week 4 focuses on standard algorithm decimal addition and subtraction, multi-step problem consolidation, and direct assessment of skills to confirm crew flight readiness.
Week 3 focuses on multi-step additive reasoning, decimal subtraction, and aligning coordinates using star charts and compass tools to plan flight vectors for the fleet.
Week 2 focuses on decimal addition and subtraction with and without regrouping, using visual decimal grids and standard plastic base-10 blocks to represent tenths and hundredths in solar charging grid scenarios.
Week 1 focuses on deepening place value understanding and multi-step addition of decimals and whole numbers in space grid systems. Students practice regrouping tenths and wholes, balancing battery loads, and tracking fuel payload readings.
A data description and analysis lesson based on an active campus litter clean-up day. Students aggregate, analyze, and represent real-world physical clean-up data using statistical measures, dot plots, and histograms.
An intervention lesson on dividing fractions using concrete visual models (fraction bars and circles) to build conceptual understanding before moving to the standard algorithm.
A welcoming, interactive 30-minute transition lesson designed for incoming 7th-grade students to demystify math, break common myths about mathematical ability, explore open-ended number patterns, and build confidence and excitement about their upcoming school year with Ms. Watkins.
Covers multiplying a 3-digit number by a 3-digit number using the standard algorithm, adding a second layer of place value holder zeros and managing extensive regrouping.
Covers multiplying a 3-digit number by a 2-digit number using the standard algorithm, highlighting the critical role of the place value holder zero.
Advancing to 4-digit by 2-digit and 3-digit by 3-digit multiplication, solidifying standard algorithm mechanics and managing multiple placeholder zeros.
Mastering 3-digit by 2-digit multiplication using the standard algorithm, highlighting proper regrouping, placeholder zeros, and vertical place-value alignment.
