Help your students sharpen those mental math skills with this fun resource! Included are 24 mental math cards dealing mostly with numbers in the tens, 4 bonus "brain buster" cards are included for work in the hundreds.

Mental math keeps brains sharp! Brains, like muscles, need exercise to get stronger. Mental math improves number sense, and the ability to understand relationships between quantities. Think of mental math as a gym for the brain!

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Using this resource in YOUR classroom:

1.Quick Warm-Up: Start the day with a mental math card as a warm-up activity.

2. Math Centers: Use them as a station in your math centers for independent practice.

3. Partner Practice: Have students work in pairs to solve the cards, discussing strategies.

4. Whole Class Activity: Project a card on the board for the whole class to solve together.

5. Timed Challenges: Set a timer and challenge students to solve as many cards as they can in a given time.

6. Daily Challenge: Post a new card each day for students to solve during morning work or transitions.

7. Math Journals: Have students write about their strategies for solving specific cards in their math journals.

8. Math Relay: Use cards in a relay race format where teams solve and pass on the next card.

9. Create Your Own: Encourage students to design their own mental math cards to challenge peers.

10. Math Talks: Use cards as prompts for math discussions, focusing on different problem-solving strategies.

11. Assessment Tool: Use cards formatively or summatively to assess mental math skills and progress.

This Resource Includes:

• 24 mental math task cards using primarily numbers in the tens
• 4 bonus "Brain Buster" cards in the hundreds
• Answer sheet and Grading key

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About this Teacher Author

Jan Bernard

National Board Certified Teacher (2001-2011), Masters in Curriculum, Gifted Certified, Cobb County Elementary Teacher of the Year, Addison Elementary Teacher of the Year, Bullard Elementary Teacher of the Year, Atlanta Journal and Constitution Honor Teacher finalist ($5000 award), District 3 Georgia Science Teacher of the Year, Author of seven books published by The Child's World Press, Wrote online k-12 social studies and language arts curriculum for Coca Cola, curriculum writer for CNN, curriculum writer for American Legacy Publishers 2009-2014, 25 years teaching experience in grades 1st-4th.

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