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Calendar Math -

With some teaching points, whole group instruction isn't always appropriate. Make your own calendar packets, and differentiate some of the pages that teach the skills needed.

Use a variety of questions on each page (blooms). Tell the students to pick three questions they want to answer on one skill at the end of a lesson. Teachers can assess by looking at the kinds of questions students choose to answer and use it as a talking point to teach students how to self assess (what do I know? what's the hardest question I can answer?) Split up the questions into lower, medium and high (in a non-discrete way) and see if they can answer one from each section. Have a rating system for students to show how CONFIDENT they are in their answer.

Format the calendar math packet in different ways. What is the date? vs. What is the weekday? month? date? year? With money: drawing totals vs. writing the total.