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National Conference in Philadelphia

23 April, 2012

 Debra and I are off tomorrow to attend the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Conference.  We will be both presenting and exhibiting.  We are excited to share our knowledge with other teachers who have a passion to help children in their learning of mathematics.  We will have an e-workshop on Thursday where we will present all of our products to those who attend.  Friday, will be a gallery workshop where teachers will be working with our materials and will have the opportunity to take samples with them.  On Saturday, our focus will be on Place and Value with what we consider to be eight essential steps to helping teach place and value to young students.

If you are in Philadelphia, please stop by our booth (1040) and say hi.  We would love to chat about our assessment and materials we have produced to help the young student and those that struggle with math.

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21 April, 2012

 Debra and I had a great three days at the Columbus Convention Center sharing our products with preschool teachers.  We now have mats to use with the Bears and Chairs.  We have created five different mats.  The first is a game to help young children with counting, one-to-one correspondence and cardinality.  We have a two-sided mat with five beds on one side and ten beds on the other.  Children take the bears and use them to place in the beds.  We are helping the young child see the relationship to five and ten.  Our second mat is a play mat that can be used to retell the story of "The Three Bears."  The next three mats were created so young children from pre-kindergarten through grade two can work on problem solving by acting out the story.  We have a cave, table and zoo mat.  These mats are two-sided and can be used to help students with all of the different types of addition and subtraction problems that are listed in the new Common Core Standards.

Check our product page to see what they look like.

We are off to Philadelphia next week to share our products with teachers who will be at the NCTM conference.