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	<title>Teaching Math Blog</title>
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	<description>Tips for Teaching Elementary Math</description>
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		<title>Gratitude for Teachers:  Goals of Teaching Elementary Math</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Giving teachers a heads up Thank You is something that happens usually once or twice a year – maybe Valentine’s Day, Christmas time…we often wonder if parents and kids truly realize the giving that teachers do in their daily classroom lives – so we want to say Thank You! Making the task of teaching elementary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2011/03/02/gratitude-for-teachers-goals-of-teaching-elementary-math/</link>
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		<title>Heart Math</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What colors of candy are more popular in a typical bag of Valentine Hearts?  World over, kids pretty much enjoy receiving and giving Valentines to their friends on Valentine’s Day.  This year, make it a math learning experience, so the fun is included in the work. Here is a Fun Idea for making it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2011/02/10/heart-math/</link>
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		<title>Financial Literacy at home, in School and Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earning, saving, spending, investing, budgeting, collecting, and giving are all part of handling money.  And handling money wisely is what financial literacy at home, school and in society is all about. Modern governments want to develop financial literacy among consumers in society. This means improving the ability to understand money matters, applying that knowledge and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2011/01/13/financial-literacy-at-home-in-school-and-society/</link>
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		<title>Real-World Activities for Teaching Fractions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many elementary age children, fractions seem like a foreign language that they likely may never use in real life.  To challenge this thinking, we can use real-world activities that illustrate just how fractions help their parents, and how they will help them as they grow up. Teach them to use the ruler. Rulers are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2010/11/15/real-world-activities-for-teaching-fractions/</link>
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		<title>A Quick &amp; Easy Fraction Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, fractions seem to have a reputation for being a lot harder to learn (and teach) than they really are.  They can actually be fun and simple to master, as long as you have a simple plan for teaching them.  Here&#8217;s a strategy you could use: First, remember that the right time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2010/11/09/a-quick-easy-fraction-plan/</link>
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		<title>Teaching and Learning Scary Fractions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Materials: Small Index Size Recipe Cards Medium sized Pot Large Stirring Spoon Imagination Create a Scary Recipe for a Halloween Witches’ Brew: Using various fraction amounts of ingredients, all students must add the total amount of liquid for the brew. Ingredients: • 4 1/2 cups Mud Water • 2 1/2 tbls Ghecko Slime • 1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2010/10/27/teaching-and-learning-scary-fractions/</link>
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		<title>Decimal Activities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even kids use decimals almost everyday without even realizing it. They speak of dollars and cents in everyday conversation, and are using one of the applications of decimals. Yet for some reason, this remains one area of math that elementary students find intimidating. It doesn&#8217;t have to be that way. Here are several creative methods [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2010/10/26/decimal-activities/</link>
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		<title>Tips for Teaching in the Elementary Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teaching math is teaching math, right?  Not by a long shot!  The way we approach teaching children is far different from how we teach adults, and both are completely different from how we teach adolescents.  Although certain elements are the same, there are at least six differences in how it is better to teach in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2010/10/12/tips-for-teaching-in-the-elementary-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Send Your Classroom to Space!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fun school activities are always music to a teacher’s ears.  Whether you are an Elementary, Middle, or High school teacher this event is sure to excite your students.  Classroom activities such as this one can be incorporated into any subject related to space and its fun for any age. Our solar system, sometimes just earth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2010/09/25/send-your-classroom-to-space/</link>
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		<title>Meteor Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meteor Multiplication assists students in learning multiplication. This is a fun video game for learning elementary multiplication. Large meteors with multiplication problems in them move from all around the screen toward a large star station in the center of the screen. Answers to the problems are placed in the center of the star station, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://math-lessons.ca/blog/2010/07/26/meteor-madness/</link>
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