“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, 
“I DO and I Understand
– Confucius

Unfold nimbleNumbers To “Do” and “Understand”
the Math World

nimbleNumbers is a series of 10 foot long dry-erase board books that unfold holding coins, manipulatives, the essential language of math and student drawings and computation.  Our books cover topics from pre-school thru Algebra I.  We absolutely love it…we hope  you do as well!! – Click to play video.

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Teachers LOVE the flexibility.  Easy Entry with Unlimited Ceiling for BellWork, Stations, Large, Small and Individual Study…Amazing!  Click To Play Video

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The essence of nimbleNumbers.  Students building, seeing, speaking, hearing, writing and understanding mathematics. How much better can it  get?  –  Click Play Video

This my story.  Twelve amazing years teaching middle school in inner-city Omaha, Nebraska.  Wow, I wish someone handed me a copy of nimberNumbers when I began teaching at The Martin Luther King School  of Science and Technology.  Since nobody did, we created these books. – If you love educational philosophy….or need to fall asleep 🙂  Click to Play the Video

Vocabulary

Video suggestions to complement Your Curriculum, Your Pace and  Your Teaching Style!

Our Teaching Model With Manipulatives

Word  Walls In Action!

Coins

Fraction  Tiles

Pizza

FlashCards

Blocks

Many manipulative within the same lesson

Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide

Fractions

Common Factor

Composite Number

Denominator

Improper Fraction

Improper Fractiom

Equivalant Fraction

Fraction

Greatest Common Factor

Least Common Multiple

Mixed Number

Prime Numbers

Proper Fraction

Simplest Form

Unit Fraction

Decimals

Decimal

Decimal Point

Dividend

Divisor

Fraction

Hundredth

Irrational Number

Mixed Number

Rational Number

Repeating Decimal

Rounding

Tenth

Terminating Decimal

Whole Number

 

Operators

+ Add

/ Divide

= Equal To

^ Exponents

> Greater Than

>= Greater Than Or  Equal To

< Less Than

<= Less Than Or Equal To

* Multiply

() Parenthesis

– Subtract

Percents

Discount

Interest

Mark Up

Percent of Change

Percent of Decrease

Percent of Increase

Proportion

Ratio

 

 

Roots - Square Roots and Cubed Roots

Cube Root

Integer

Irrational Numbers

Perfect Cube

Perfect Square

Principal Square Root

Radical

Radicand

Rational Numbers

Statistics

Mean

Median

Mode

Outlier

Range

Properties

Associative Property

Communitive Property

Distributive Property

Equations

Grade Level Classes

Video suggestions to complement Your Curriculum, Your Pace and  Your Teaching Style!

Early Math

Counting

Money

Kindergarten

Counting With Small Numbers

Counting In Order

Number Grid

Missing Numbers Between 0 and 100

Counting Objects

Comparing Numbers

Counting By Category

Sums of 10

Intro to Addition

Intro to Subtraction

Making A Number

Adding and Subtracting With a Number

1st Grade

Intro to Place Value

Place Value Examples

Comparing Numbers, Greater Than and Less Than

The Equal Sign

Word Problems – Greater Than, Less Than and Equal To

Adding Two Digit Numbers

Story Problems

2nd Grade

Place Value – Hundreds

Comparing 3-Digit Numbers

Adding 1s, 10s and 100s

Subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s

3rd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

What is 1/4?

What is 1/2?

What is 1/5?

What is 3/5?

What is 3/4?

Adding Fractions:  1/3 + 1/3

Adding Fractions:  1/3 + 1/2

Subtracting Fractions:  3/5 – 1/5

Subtracting Fractions:  3/4 – 1/2

5th Grade

6th Grade

Statistics

7th Grade

Proportions

8th Grade

Square Roots

3rd Roots

Pre-Algebra

Adding Fractions

Algebra I