Skip: v. skipped, skip·ping, skips v.intr. 1. a. To move by hopping on one foot and then the other. b. To leap lightly about.

When the head of the math dept was here yesterday, I took the opportunity to pick her brain a little.  I've been working with some kids who are having trouble with the concepts of LCM & GCF.  They can't seem to keep factors and multiples straight, so of course they'll struggle with LCM/GCF.  

Carmen told me that she teaches the concept of multiples with the idea of skip counting... so today, this elementary-school-teacher-turned-secondary made her class skip (literally) while chanting "multiples, skip counting, 2-4-6-8".  

Okay, so I couldn't get everyone up & skipping, but the ones who did it had fun, and even the ones who were too shy or self conscious still remembered what multiples were when we did our follow up activity.  I'm calling it a success.

Yeah, I made them skip.