Visit Excel Math in San Antonio for the AIE Conference

The 2015 AIE Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas from November 16 - 18.

Bob and Brad will be there with the new Excel Math Texas Editions!

Stop by Booth #18 to take a look at our Texas Teacher Editions for Kindergarten through Grade 6. Be sure to ask about taking home an Excel Math executive pen.

Sign up for our occasional tips and printables while you're there (or visit this link on our website: Free Tips and Printables)

TEKS aligned and STAAR ready, these Excel Math Texas Teacher Editions include new TEKS objectives plus:

• discussion suggestions 

• new teaching ideas and hands-on activities

• quarterly test tables with the TEKS concept listed for each test question

• new manipulatives and reproducible patterns 

• various problem-solving techniques explained

• added rigor and 

• more emphasis on those TEKS concepts new to students in each grade level.

Excel Math Texas Teacher Editions—TEKS aligned, STAAR ready

Excel Math Grade 1 Texas Teacher Edition

With our new Texas Teacher Editions, Excel Math is now current with the new Texas Math TEKS. We do not have a personal financial literacy component, but we have built into the lessons lots of practice with coins, money, making change, calculating interest, budgeting, etc.

Our Grades 2 - 6 Texas Teacher Editions include a reproducible Budget Worksheet to help students develop a system for keeping and using financial records and to learn to balance a budget when expenses exceed income.

Take a look at the new Texas grade level correlations and sample lessons for Kindergarten through Grade 6.

Click on the colorful sample bars on the web page to choose your grade level(s). Scroll down the web page to see the correlations and click on the round buttons: http://excelmath.com/downloads/state_stdsTX.html

Within each grade level, we correlate the Excel Math Lessons, Stretches, Activities and Exercises to each Texas standard. You can see correlations by lesson number at the end of each correlation document.

Reserve your cost-effective 

Professional Development seminar today

Our vice-president Bob would be glad to provide you and your colleagues with a couple of hours of inservice training with Excel Math (at minimal cost to cover travel expenses), once you start using the program. One of his seminars specifically addresses best practices for Teaching to the new TEKS using Excel Math.

Additionally the in-service includes how to effectively blend Excel Math with an adopted core curriculum for maximum instruction. Feel free to call Bob, visit him in the booth or send him an email: bob@excelmath.com.

You can find more information about Bob's presentations on our website: Texas PD

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November 16-18, 2015 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in downtown San Antonio, Texas - See more at: http://www.aieconference.net/index.html#sthash.cNkaPJ6G.dpuf

November 16-18, 2015 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in downtown San Antonio, Texas - See more at: http://www.aieconference.net/index.html#sthash.cNkaPJ6G.dpuf

Odd Day in the Math Classroom

Odd day is a day that singles out those wonderful, wacky odd numbers. It occurs when three consecutive odd numbers make up a date — something that happens only six times in a century.

The last Odd Day was 09/11/13 and this year it will occur on 11/13/15. Can you guess when the next one will take place? (Not until 1/03/2105.)

Celebrate the day by doing odd things in your classroom.

You may want to let your students do odd numbered problems on this day, count off by 3s, wear odd outfits, have a crazy/odd hair day, recite an odd poem or quote some odd trivia.

Your students could play Dominoes or Go Fish or Mancala (board games or computer games) but count up only the odd numbers left at the end.

Or let the students play board games where players can only move when the dice shows (or totals) an odd number.

Try a few odd math facts, skip-count by odd numbers, etc.

Then let your students figure out when the previous four Odd Days occurred (3/5/2007, 5/7/2009, 7/9/2011, 9/11/2013) and when they can expect to see the next four Odd Days. (1/3/2105, 3/5/2107, 5/7/2109 and 7/9/2111)

Excel Math lessons teach students how to recognize odd and even numbers, learn foundational math concepts, and retain those concepts for the long term. Excel Math can even help students develop a love for math.

For over 40 years, these proven math lessons have developed higher-order thinking skills, built proficiency, and continue to produce confidence in students of all ages and abilities.  

Excel Math was written to give teachers the tools they need to help students develop a strong foundation in math. Read more about Excel Math and its systematic spiraling process at www.excelmath.com.

New to Excel Math? Preview elementary math lessons that really work for Kindergarten through Sixth Grade on our website: www.excelmath.com.

Download sample lessons from our K - 6 Grades Common Core Teacher Editions by visiting our website.

How will you celebrate odd day with your students? Leave a comment by clicking on the word "comments" below.

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Visit Excel Math at the CMC South Conference in Palm Springs November 5-7, 2015.

This year the 2015 CMC Convention will be held in South Palm Springs at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Bob and Brad will be there.

The 56th Annual California Mathematics Council is focusing on the theme:

Orchestrating the Common Core Classroom

Stop by Booth #240 and see our proven  Excel Math lessons and  Common Core Teacher Editions for Kindergarten through Grade 6. Pick up a sample packet and some chocolate while you're there!

The exhibit hall for CMC opens at 8:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday in Oasis II and III of the Palm Springs Convention Center.

Visit Excel Math at CMC

You can join Bob and Brad to take a look at our Common Core Teacher Editions for Kindergarten through Grade 6 and take home an Excel Math executive pen.

Download our Excel Math grade level correlations to the Common Core Standards and view sample lessons for Kindergarten through Grade 6.

Click on the colorful sample bars on the web page to choose your grade level(s). Scroll down the web page to see the correlations and click on the round buttons: CCS Correlations

Within each grade level, we correlate the Excel Math Lessons, Stretches, Activities and Exercises to each CCSS standard.

You can see correlations by lesson number at the end of each correlation document.

Reserve your cost-effective 

Professional Development seminar today

Excel Math Professional Development

Our vice-president Bob would be glad to provide you and your colleagues with a couple of hours of inservice training with Excel Math (at minimal cost to cover travel expenses), once you start using the program.

One of Bob's seminars specifically addresses best practices for teaching to the Common Core Standards using Excel Math.

Excel Math CCS Teacher Edition

Additionally the in-service includes how to effectively blend Excel Math with an adopted core curriculum for maximum instruction.

Feel free to call Bob, visit him in the booth or send him an email: bob@excelmath.com.

You can find more information about Bob's engaging presentations on our website: Professional Development

For more information and to register for the CMC conference visit: http://www.cmc-south.org/conference-info-2015.html

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