How do you prevent students from forgetting the math you taught last week? Last month? The key is to find many ways to spiral spiral spiral!
Here's one way I spiral in concepts during my Guided Math Workshop.
Pocket Chart Math
As you can see all you need is a simple poster with instructions, small sentence strips and a small pocket chart from Dollar Tree. I started off by identifying the skills my kids needed to review on a weekly basis. Then, I created problems on small sentence strips (I made 5 to begin and just kept adding more cards as the year went on). I posted a poster with instruction on what to do for each problem.
I found that this was a very simple way for my students to spiral concepts and i LOVED that i didn't have to make any worksheets or run copies because they do all the work in their guided math spiral.
Try this in your classroom! I truly believe you'll see students retaining skills much better.
-THWM
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