SIM Materials for Educators

Multiplying two-digit numbers can be intimidating, especially if the numbers are large. All that regrouping can be confusing. Which number goes where? And better yet, why?
Help students master multiplication with regrouping using the two latest books from KUCRL: Multiplication With Regrouping: Partial Products and Multiplication with Regrouping: Standard Algorithm. Learn More

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty… as numbers grow, so too does the difficulty for solving the problems in which they appear. To make this process easier over the long run, students must understand the concept of place value from the beginning. Learn More

Problems like “3 + 6” and “0 + 9” may seem easy, but they probably cause a few anxious moments when students first learn them—especially at an automatic level. Learn More

Provide a structured approach to teaching regrouping that promotes student success and self-confidence. The approach in the Subtraction With Regrouping program emphasizes a gradual progression through concrete, representational, and abstract lessons and promotes a deep level of understanding related to the regrouping process. Learn More

Prepare students for the complicated act of borrowing with Subtraction Facts 10 to 18. Learn More

"Teaching Cause and Effect" contains a set of instructional methods that teachers can use to help students engage in higher order reasoning, thinking about a relationship in which one thing either leads to another or results from another. Learn More

This guidebook helps students clarify, analyze, and evaluate arguments, both across academic content and within their daily lives. Learn More

This guidebook helps students clarify, analyze, and evaluate arguments, both across academic content and within their daily lives. Learn More

This downloadable manual contains a set of instructional materials and methods that teachers can use to help students engage in higher order reasoning when thinking about an issue that may have more than one option, or way to respond. Read more.... Learn More