Math Solutions

An important part of our math lesson every day is reviewing math facts. Flash cards are boring around here. It is much more fun to have a one minute fact sheet competition. (When I was a student they were called "timed tests" and I dreaded them- but the boys love it!) One of the solutions I have found for simplifying the paper waste that could occur when we do fact sheet after fact sheet every day is this: we use clear sheet protectors- slide the fact sheet for the day in the sleeve, then the kids use a dry erase marker to write the answers. After we check answers by reading them together out loud- we erase and then we can reuse each fact sheet and each clear sheet protector over and over again. Using clear sheet protectors for math fact practice...it's a good thing.