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Why do we use multiple representations for multiplication facts?
🧠 Deepen conceptual understanding
🔗 Make connections across ideas
👀 Visualize the math
🤔 Encourage flexible thinking
#math #edtech #manipulatives

💥"Which One Doesn’t Belong?" is a powerful math talk routine that allows students to explain their thinking, use academic vocabulary, and explore multiple perspectives.
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💥The Brainingcamp Certified Educator Level 2 Program is here!*
Discover how to customize tools & guide student exploration with Brainingcamp LIVE. Earn a new certificate & badge!
➡️Learn more & save a seat: bit.ly/43Fhqch
*Prior completion of Level 1 is required.

Wishing you a joyful 4th of July! 🎉
Wherever you are and however you’re spending the day, we hope it includes a little time to recharge—and maybe even a little math fun! ☀️

💡Using multiple representations isn’t just an effective teaching strategy—it’s essential for developing conceptual mathematical understanding!

💻 Read more in Mark's Blog: bit.ly/MultRepBlog

🍔 A restaurant once created a 1/3 pound burger to compete with a rival's 1/4 version. This failed as many people thought 1/3 was less.😱

💡Let's make math visual with five different manipulatives!
#NoBurgerLeftBehind #math #edtech

Missed the first Brainingcamp Certified Educator session? Don’t worry—one more Level 1 session is Thursday!🎉
Learn strategies for using digital manipulatives, discover ways to engage every learner & earn a Certificate & Digital Badge!

💥Reserve a seat: bit.ly/3EBqAwK

💡Place Value Disks are a powerful tool to help students clearly visualize the expanded form of whole numbers and decimals! 👀

💥Students need time to explore digital manipulatives the same way they would with the physical version! You might be surprised by the meaningful connections they make on their own! 🔗

#EdTech #math #HandsOnLearning

💥Headed to #FCTM?
Join Mark’s session “Using Virtual Manipulatives to Connect Multiple Representations” — a must-see for math professionals looking to deepen conceptual understanding with powerful digital tools.

#FCTM2025 #Brainingcamp #MathManipulatives

If you're also interested in the dates and times for Level 2, please see the info below or view the PDF overview to learn more and sign up: bit.ly/43Fhqch
- July 10th at 11:00AM EST
- July 24th at 2:00PM EST

📣Announcing the free Brainingcamp Certified Educator Program—powerful PD to learn strategies for teaching with manipulatives & ways to engage every learner! You’ll earn a Certificate & Digital Badge after completion.
💥 Details & Seat Reservations: bit.ly/43Fhqch

🎢 Rounding numbers to a given place is a very abstract concept. Our Hundred Board's Rounding Workspace is a great tool to conceptualize and discover rounding patterns.

💵 Cash in on this money activity as your students make "cents" out of words! The Share Codes below can be customized to find the value of spelling words, academic vocabulary, names of classmates, or find the "most valuable" word 💰
🇺🇸 3RE6N4VQ
🇨🇦 TKNQ6HJ2

🤔 These Color Tiles puzzles provide an engaging way to understand related facts, build flexible thinking, and develop algebraic reasoning skills for multiplication and division!

💻 bit.ly/MultDivPuzzles or Share Code: NT9S22FK

🚨WARNING! These random number ranking activities are extremely addicting and can lead to super-engaged mathematicians! Can you and your students complete the challenge in less than ten attempts? 👀

Share Codes
1️⃣ 1 to 99: LLB5RNF8
2️⃣ 1 to 999: B684NSQP
3️⃣ -500 to 500: J4VQ8DDB

🧩 These Linking Cube puzzles provide an excellent opportunity to understand related facts, build flexible thinking, and develop algebraic reasoning skills.

💻 Check out bit.ly/AddSubPuzzles or enter Share Code: W5GXTJFA

❤️ We love teachers and appreciate everything you do for your students! Congrats to the educators in this video! We will message you with details about redeeming your
@nctm.org membership.

#TeacherAppreciationWeek #ThankATeacher

📣 Headed to OAME? Catch Ryan on Friday for "Breaking it Down: Decomposing at All Levels of Math."
Decomposing isn’t just for place value—discover how this powerful strategy supports learning across the math curriculum!💥

🎁 Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
We’re giving 3 amazing math educators a FREE
@NCTM
membership!
How to Enter:
1️⃣ Comment below with your favorite math manipulative.
2️⃣ Tag a fellow math teacher and they get entered too!
#TeacherAppreciationWeek #MathEd #NCTM

🎉 Product Update! You can now quickly add groups of 5 & 10 Two-Color Counters! See Share Codes below to launch the activities modeled in the video!

💡Teaching Ideas:
🟡 Numbers to 10: JTG5D9WP
🔴 2-Digit Addition: YVJSF9YK

💥 Visualize regrouping to help students connect concrete representations with the abstract subtraction algorithm! 👀

💡Base Ten Blocks are an excellent tool to help students conceptually understand abstract division algorithms!

#Math #Education #EdTech

🧮 Explore our on-demand professional development webinars! Expand your teaching toolkit with innovative strategies and gain valuable insights from leading experts in math education.

💻 bit.ly/BCWebinars

💡Math is full of beautiful patterns that connect shapes, numbers, and ideas in unexpected ways. 🤯

Try with your students today!
🟧 bit.ly/TriSquareNum... or Share Code: RVHC4WBK🔺

#Math #EdTech #Teaching

💥 Help your students visualize multiplicative relationships with the XY Coordinate Board! The customizable scale and adjustable quadrants allow for a wide variety of representations.

💻 bit.ly/XYMultiplica... or Share Code: GH3MXDF8

💡The XY Coordinate Board is the perfect tool for graphing additive relationships! Students can check their work by selecting the “Ordered Pairs” setting.

📈 bit.ly/XYAdditive or Share Code: 4M63MR79

💥 Number Lines are a great tool for creating customizable line plots for your students! Engage in powerful problem-solving conversations based on the data!

🏀 bit.ly/LinePlotActi... or Share Code: 35ZVKM22

💡Did you know that Color Tiles and Linking Cubes both have a “Graph” Workspace? Engage your students with displaying and analyzing real data!
📊 bit.ly/ColorTilesGr...

🟦 Color Tiles are an excellent tool for exploring the area of rectangles! Check out the link below for an independent workstation designed for your students to use! 🟨

💻 bit.ly/ColorTilesArea or Share Code: 9153SKZ6