Math Rotations and Partner Work

My school uses Math in Focus for our Math curriculum. The program uses the Singapore approach and is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Math.  So far we have covered topics ranging from three-digit addition and subtraction, simple multiplication/division, money, fractions, and measurement. After covering a chapter/topic, I have continued to spiral in additional practice to make sure that the majority of the kids master the material. At the beginning of the year, a large portion of my Math block was direct instruction with a lot of teacher direction. Starting this semester, I've began to introduce more partner work through rotations and I am seeing great results!  I ranked students by assessment scores and created pairs of students of different ability levels. I paired the #1 student with #15, #2 with #16, #3 with #17, and so forth and so on until all students were paired.  I created a bunch of simple "games" to review money, fractions, measurement, etc... and rotated students through stations every 5-7 minutes.  It was amazing to see how independent they were! Below are some pictures of our stations.

Math Rotations

It has been a while since I've posted last, due to the back-to-school craziness that has ensued!  I took a quick picture of the Math Rotations board that I created. I stole this idea from another great blogger, Clutter-Free Classroom (see here!). Thank you for the inspiration. Now I need to roll these out this coming week.

Math