Using Triangles to Teach Fact FamilySeptember 9, 2007 at 4:01 pm
| Posted in best practices, elementary, graphic organizers,
math, strategies | 2 Comments For the past 7 weeks, I have used
this modified triangle as a graphics organizer, originally
developed by Andrew, to teach my second grade students math fact
families. Fact family is part of our daily math activities. For
about five minutes every day, we look at one new fact family and
explore relationships between the members of the fact family.
Here’s a picture of the latest fact family that we are working
on. As you can see, it’s just a laminated piece of paper that I
reuse every day. Our math assessment, which we took just last
week, showed me how incredibly successful using the triangle is
in teaching fact family and many relationships that are embedded
in fact family. I’ll give you the hard numbers when the scores
come back from the district, but a teacher look-see showed me
that almost all of the students got all of the related fact
family questions