Shannon's Favorite Things:
All The Tools To Enhance Your Math Class
Tools To Organize Math Class
Explore my favorite things to organize math class including trays for student manipulatives, zipper pouches of all sizes, white boards, and student grouping tools.
10 x 14 Plastic Trays
Perfect for students to carry and represent problems with manipulatives.
8 x 11 Plastic Trays
A smaller tray for students to carry and use manipulatives. Fits in most bins.
Small Stacking Storage Bin
Small storage bins to be used by individual students, pairs, or small groups.
Bins with Handles
Six and 12 quart bins with handles. Great for holding manipulatives like counters.
XS Zipper Pouches
6.5 x 4.7 inches. Great for about 20 counters, paperclips, small blocks, etc.
Small Zipper Pouches
9.5 x 7.1 inches. Great for counting collections, base-ten blocks, tangrams, etc.
Bill Sized Zipper Pouches
9.2 x 4.5 inches. Great for play money, pencils, about 20 linking cubes, etc.
Document Zipper Pouches
13.5 x 9.5 inches. Great for documents, game boards, puzzles, etc.
Variety Zipper Pouches
Multiple sizes. Great for multiple uses of organizing various sized materials.
Pencil Pouches
9.8 x 7 inches with three rings. Great for pencils, expo markers, and individual manipulatives.
Mini Containers with Lids
Dollar Tree 10 count. Great for about 20 counters, small materials, etc.
Wipebook Heavy Duty
24 x 36 inches. Great for small group thinking tasks. May be used on the wall or flat surfaces.
Wipebook Mini
12 x 18 inches. Great for small group thinking tasks and professional learning at tables.
Wipebook Easel
18 x 24 x 36 inches. Great for hanging Wipebooks when there isn't wall space.
Blank Board with Handle
36 x 24 inches. Great for small group tasks. Lean against walls or place on floors or tables.
Dry Erase Sheets
24 x 31.5 inches. Budget friendly vertical surfaces that static cling to walls or windows.
Dry Erase Pockets
9.4 x 12 inches. Great for making 8.5 x 11 pages into mini dry erase boards.
Poster Storage Tube
Extends 24-40 inches. Great for storing and traveling with Wipebooks or dry erase sheets.
Poster Storage Bag
36 x 24 inches. Great for storing and carrying Wipebooks and other posters.
Whiteboard Erasers
2 x 2 inches. 24 pack. Great for erasing personal and group whiteboards.
Student Grouping Pencils
36 pencils. Create random student groups by color, shape, or number printed on the plastic pencils.
Student Grouping Cards
56 playing cards. Create random student groups. Also great for subitizing and games.
Tools To Represent in Math Class
Explore my favorite ten frames, hundreds grids, and manipulatives including counters, cubes, and more.
Check out specific grade level and content recommendations at: https://www.shannonolson.com/tools
Write-on Ten Frames
Simple ten-frame grid on laminated cards. Perfect for reinforcing all work with 10.
Ten Frame Tackle Boxes
Ten frame grid with dividers. Can place individual or up to 10 objects in each slot.
Fidget Pop Ten Frame
Use as a normal ten frame with the fun of popping bubbles. Subitize, add, subtract, and more.
Hundred Chart
Double sided chart. One side has numbers 1-100 and the other side is blank.
Two-color Counters
Great for counting, subitizing, adding, subtracting, using with ten frames, arrays, and integers.
Multi-color Counters
Transparent counting chips are great for sorting and counting. Fun for holiday-themed tasks.
Large Attribute Buttons
Great for sorting and counting. Large buttons measuring 1.5-2 inches. 150 pieces.
Many Assorted Buttons
Assorted colors, sizes, and holes. 1500 pieces. Great for large counting collections.
Mini Pom Poms
Great for sorting, counting, and counting collections. Soft sensory objects.
Bear Counters
Great for sorting, counting, and counting collections. Comes with sorting bowls.
Popsicle Sticks
Great for counting collections over 100. Bundle 10s and 100s for place value understanding.
Coffee Straws
Great for counting collections over 100. Bundle 10s and 100s for place value understanding.
Square Tiles
Great for sorting, counting, counting collections, arrays, measuring length and tiling area.
Unifix Cubes
Great for counting, addition, subtraction, and developing understanding of groups of ten.
Multilink Cubes
Great for counting, addition, subtraction, measuring length, and understanding volume.
Thousandths Chips
Concretely work with base-ten blocks to represent decimals. This chips is 1/10th of a unit cube.
Place Value Disks
Represent place value and operations with multi-digit numbers and decimals.
Dice/Number Cubes
Great for subitizing, adding, subtracting, and fact fluency, and games.
Fraction Tower Cubes
Understand, compare, find equivalence, and operate with fractions. Connect to decimals.
Tangrams
Use tangram puzzle pieces to visualize patterns, designs, and relationships between shapes.
Write and Wipe Clocks
Teach analog and digital time telling with write-on, wipe-off clocks.
Elapsed Time Set
Provides a hands-on, concrete way to teach the abstract concept of elapsed time.
Paper Money
Realistic, double-sided bills. 100 each of $1, $5, $10 and $20, and 50 each of $50 and $100 bills.
Tools To Learn About Best Practices in Math Class
Explore my favorite books related to math practices and content.
Taking Action K-5
Provides examples of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices K-5.
Taking Action 6-8
Provides examples of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices 6-8.
Taking Action 9-12
Provides examples of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices 9-12.
5 Practices
Explains how to anticipate, monitor, select, sequence, and connect discussions.
The Five Practices in Practice [Elementary]
Enhances the practices to bring powerful discussions to elementary classrooms.
The Five Practices in Practice [Middle]
Enhances the practices to bring powerful discussions to middle school.
The Five Practices in Practice [High]
Enhances the practices to bring powerful discussions to high school.
Building Thinking Classrooms
Shares 14 practices for deep mathematics thinking and learning.
Mathematics Tasks for Thinking
Delves deeper into BTC through the lens of rich math tasks.
Productive Math Struggle
Shares a 6-point action plan for fostering perseverance through productive struggle.
Daily Routines to Jump-Start Problem Solving, Grades K-8
Provides bite-size routines for students to become problem-solving masters.
Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Elementary
Details classroom-proven practice routines to help ignite student engagement.
Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Middle
Details classroom-proven practice routines to help ignite student engagement.
Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, High School
Details classroom-proven practice routines to help ignite student engagement.
The Math Pact, Elementary
Shares tips for achieving instructional coherence within and across grades.
The Math Pact, Middle School
Shares tips for achieving instructional coherence within and across grades.
The Math Pact, High School
Shares tips for achieving instructional coherence within and across grades.
Math Fact Fluency Games and Tools
Shares 60+ games and assessment tools to support learning and retention.
