I have the square root of 64 years experience teaching fifth grade math to students of all ability levels, the cube root of 27 years experience teaching 6th and 7th grade math, and currently teach gifted elementary math classes.
Need no-prep differentiation & enrichment for measurement conversions? This project, with three levels of challenge, improves measurement understanding & connects measurement conversions to real-life. Many of the problems are multi-step and challenging to promote higher level thinking and deep understanding! Perfect for: - Project Based Learning Activity - Skills Practice - Review or Test Prep - Test or Assessment - Enrichment - Fast Finisher Challenges - Cooperative Learning Partner or Small
Make reviewing equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and fraction operations word problems fun with this creative project for fourth & fifth grade. Your students will love planning their own party, making entertainment and decorating decisions, and dealing with all the fraction dilemmas, like dogs eating some of the pizza and a teacher photo-bombing guests in the photo-booth. Two Versions are included: Version 1 covers the 4th grade fraction standards. Perfect for struggling fifth grad
Engage students in this decimal project that relates decimal operations & decimal place value to the real-world! These activities cover decimal place value, powers of ten, rounding, word & expanded forms, decimal operations, and unit rate problems. Math teachers are vandalizing the bowling alley by changing prices into math problems! Students help run and improve the bowling alley utilizing their decimal skills. Students will explain decimal concepts to angry customers, like the one who thin
Need a fun way to review & extend volume concepts? This project based learning activity has students design a water park using volume skills. It includes several higher level questions that will get students thinking and help them develop a better understanding of volume of right rectangular prisms and other 3-D figures. Perfect For:EnrichmentSkills Practice or HomeworkEnd of Unit ReviewEnd of Year Test PrepTest or AssessmentProject Based Learning ActivitiesFast Finisher ChallengesCooperative
Need fun math projects to review & extend fraction, decimal, and measurement concepts? These project based learning activities connect math to real-life and allow for engaging practice and differentiation. Most projects include at least two versions for easy differentiation!Perfect For: Project Based Learning ActivitiesSkills Practice or HomeworkEnd of Unit ReviewEnd of Year Test PrepTest or AssessmentEnrichmentFast Finisher ChallengesCooperative Learning Partner or Small Group WorkDifferent
Need area & perimeter enrichment to challenge your fast finishers and help make connections to real-life? This area & perimeter measurement project based learning activity that extends understanding and includes many multistep word problems to challenge your students. Perfect for:- Project Based Learning Activity - Skills Practice - Review or Test Prep - Test or Assessment - Enrichment - Fast Finisher Challenges - Cooperative Learning Partner or Small Group Work - Differentiated Math Station
Challenge & engage students with a real-world math project to extend students' knowledge of factors, multiples, prime & composite numbers, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions, percentages, circle graphs, angle concepts, and constructing angles. Perfect for: Practice, Review, or Test-Prep Enrichment Activities for Early Finishers and High AchieversDifferentiate with the Percentage Logic Puzzle & Two Versions of the Project Students Will: Find factors & multiples and identify prime &
I have the square root of 64 years experience teaching fifth grade math to students of all ability levels, the cube root of 27 years experience teaching 6th and 7th grade math, and currently teach gifted elementary math classes.
Teaching style
I connect math to real-life and use humor while teaching. I also use challenges and logic puzzles to keep students engaged and thinking. I have always loved problem solving and help my students to love it as well!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Most Effective Teacher based on Value-Added Data
My own education history
Master's Degree in Middle Childhood Education (4-9), Gifted Endorsement (K-12)
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