I am currently in my 10th year teaching AIS Mathematics after being a 3rd grade teacher here at VFES for 10 years. I truly enjoy helping students develop foundational skills, fact fluency, number sense and reasoning strategies through activities that connect concrete, representational and abstract thinking. We spend time using manipulatives, visual flash cards, number talks and/or number strings, and various computational strategies that deepen reasoning skills to provide students with a strong foundation of mathematical skills.