Description
Have any kids who find math boring? Are YOU a little bored with the usual stations and problem solving? Here's your solution!
Welcome to the battlefield – the first quadrant of the coordinate plane; a simple world of positive values where honorable warriors explore the lines parallel to the x and y axis. In order to succeed, you’ll need good strategy, good equipment, and, most importantly, math knowledge!
This incredibly engaging activity starts with designing a character and ends with students pitting these characters against each other using the coordinate grid as a battlefield and math concepts as weapons.
It is the perfect way to model, review, or reinforce many 4th and 5th grade standards. With the included "items" it covers decimals, fractions, multiplication and division of whole numbers by decimals and fractions, the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and more. I've used it as a recurring math station, an engagement tool for new concepts, and even a classroom management solution! (I was shocked at who would start behaving just for a few gold pieces to get a new magic spell!)
With a bit of tweaking it can go even further - with the blank "equipment" templates, you can make items that cover any math standard you need! Try 2v2 team battles or a four person free for all! If students are really up for a challenge, have them take on a team “dungeon” with your own gridded maze filled with monsters or have a giant boss fight, teacher vs. all student characters – the fun is endless!
Included in this FREE package you'll find
*A silly cover drawing I spent too much time making
*Full instructions on how to make characters and play
*Character Sheet Template
*Item Making Template
*Over 100 pre-made "weapons", "armor", "items", and "magic"
*Grid Tokens (both color and b&w versions)
*Coordinate Plane Battle Grid
I can't tell you how often my students beg to bust out the battle grids. Or the difference it has made in some of their understanding - especially those students' whose attention tends to wander. I hope you enjoy using this in your classroom!
Welcome to the battlefield – the first quadrant of the coordinate plane; a simple world of positive values where honorable warriors explore the lines parallel to the x and y axis. In order to succeed, you’ll need good strategy, good equipment, and, most importantly, math knowledge!
This incredibly engaging activity starts with designing a character and ends with students pitting these characters against each other using the coordinate grid as a battlefield and math concepts as weapons.
It is the perfect way to model, review, or reinforce many 4th and 5th grade standards. With the included "items" it covers decimals, fractions, multiplication and division of whole numbers by decimals and fractions, the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and more. I've used it as a recurring math station, an engagement tool for new concepts, and even a classroom management solution! (I was shocked at who would start behaving just for a few gold pieces to get a new magic spell!)
With a bit of tweaking it can go even further - with the blank "equipment" templates, you can make items that cover any math standard you need! Try 2v2 team battles or a four person free for all! If students are really up for a challenge, have them take on a team “dungeon” with your own gridded maze filled with monsters or have a giant boss fight, teacher vs. all student characters – the fun is endless!
Included in this FREE package you'll find
*A silly cover drawing I spent too much time making
*Full instructions on how to make characters and play
*Character Sheet Template
*Item Making Template
*Over 100 pre-made "weapons", "armor", "items", and "magic"
*Grid Tokens (both color and b&w versions)
*Coordinate Plane Battle Grid
I can't tell you how often my students beg to bust out the battle grids. Or the difference it has made in some of their understanding - especially those students' whose attention tends to wander. I hope you enjoy using this in your classroom!
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Highlights
Digital downloads
Grades
4th - 6th
Standards
CCSS4.NF.B.4
CCSS5.NF.B.7
CCSS5.G.A.1
Tags
Pages
10
Answer Key
Does not apply
Teaching Duration
1 Year
Description
Have any kids who find math boring? Are YOU a little bored with the usual stations and problem solving? Here's your solution!
Welcome to the battlefield – the first quadrant of the coordinate plane; a simple world of positive values where honorable warriors explore the lines parallel to the x and y axis. In order to succeed, you’ll need good strategy, good equipment, and, most importantly, math knowledge!
This incredibly engaging activity starts with designing a character and ends with students pitting these characters against each other using the coordinate grid as a battlefield and math concepts as weapons.
It is the perfect way to model, review, or reinforce many 4th and 5th grade standards. With the included "items" it covers decimals, fractions, multiplication and division of whole numbers by decimals and fractions, the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and more. I've used it as a recurring math station, an engagement tool for new concepts, and even a classroom management solution! (I was shocked at who would start behaving just for a few gold pieces to get a new magic spell!)
With a bit of tweaking it can go even further - with the blank "equipment" templates, you can make items that cover any math standard you need! Try 2v2 team battles or a four person free for all! If students are really up for a challenge, have them take on a team “dungeon” with your own gridded maze filled with monsters or have a giant boss fight, teacher vs. all student characters – the fun is endless!
Included in this FREE package you'll find
*A silly cover drawing I spent too much time making
*Full instructions on how to make characters and play
*Character Sheet Template
*Item Making Template
*Over 100 pre-made "weapons", "armor", "items", and "magic"
*Grid Tokens (both color and b&w versions)
*Coordinate Plane Battle Grid
I can't tell you how often my students beg to bust out the battle grids. Or the difference it has made in some of their understanding - especially those students' whose attention tends to wander. I hope you enjoy using this in your classroom!
Welcome to the battlefield – the first quadrant of the coordinate plane; a simple world of positive values where honorable warriors explore the lines parallel to the x and y axis. In order to succeed, you’ll need good strategy, good equipment, and, most importantly, math knowledge!
This incredibly engaging activity starts with designing a character and ends with students pitting these characters against each other using the coordinate grid as a battlefield and math concepts as weapons.
It is the perfect way to model, review, or reinforce many 4th and 5th grade standards. With the included "items" it covers decimals, fractions, multiplication and division of whole numbers by decimals and fractions, the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and more. I've used it as a recurring math station, an engagement tool for new concepts, and even a classroom management solution! (I was shocked at who would start behaving just for a few gold pieces to get a new magic spell!)
With a bit of tweaking it can go even further - with the blank "equipment" templates, you can make items that cover any math standard you need! Try 2v2 team battles or a four person free for all! If students are really up for a challenge, have them take on a team “dungeon” with your own gridded maze filled with monsters or have a giant boss fight, teacher vs. all student characters – the fun is endless!
Included in this FREE package you'll find
*A silly cover drawing I spent too much time making
*Full instructions on how to make characters and play
*Character Sheet Template
*Item Making Template
*Over 100 pre-made "weapons", "armor", "items", and "magic"
*Grid Tokens (both color and b&w versions)
*Coordinate Plane Battle Grid
I can't tell you how often my students beg to bust out the battle grids. Or the difference it has made in some of their understanding - especially those students' whose attention tends to wander. I hope you enjoy using this in your classroom!
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What a fun way to teach coordinate plane & plotting points!
My students really enjoyed this activity. Great resource.
Such a fun way for students to practice graphing! Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you!
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Standards
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CCSS4.NF.B.4
Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction by a whole number.
CCSS5.NF.B.7
Apply and extend previous understandings of division to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.
CCSS5.G.A.1
Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., 𝘹-axis and 𝘹-coordinate, 𝘺-axis and 𝘺-coordinate).
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