Math Stations

We start our math with a mini-lesson and then have whole group or station work.  I like to use stations to work on our math because it gives me an opportunity to work with small groups of students. Working with smaller groups helps to differentiate the teaching to have extra time with struggling students and accelerate others.  This also allows students to work at their own pace and level on the computers on IXL at http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2. This program is aligned to the Core and works with all of our standards. The students also work on their fact work on XtraMath at http://xtramath.org  program and then various hands on fact games and ipods with Pop Math.