At Move Mind Math, I create math materials that combine active movement with an engaged mind! This is your home for resources to support IM® Grades 6-8 Math and more. Let me help you build your thinking classroom!
Do your students need more practice finding a unit rate, a unit price, or using a unit rate to solve word problems? This editable Illustrated Math Ad Lib problem solving activity is full of fun while also providing accessible problems that help your students gain fluency with unit rate problems and develop proportional reasoning. How does it work?In this editable Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up 10 math problems around the room. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple
Are you trying to plan the perfect Pi Day for your students? This editable Illustrated Math Ad Lib area and circumference of circles practice activity is full of fun! At the same time, it also provides introductory level practice of using circumference and area formulas. This activity is most appropriate for students in Grades 6 through 8. In this editable Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up 10 math problems around the room. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple choice answ
Are you trying to plan the perfect Pi Day for your students? This editable Illustrated Math Ad Lib problem solving activity is full of fun while also providing accessible, yet challenging problems that strengthen student thinking! All problems have a Pi Day, pie, or circle theme. This activity is most appropriate for students in Grades 5 through 8. In this editable differentiated Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up 10 math problems around the room. Once students solve a problem, they will hav
Do you need an activity to help your students master the Pythagorean Theorem? Do other students need a deeper challenge? In this editable differentiated Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up 10 math problems around the room. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple choice answers to select their answer from. Each answer corresponds with a word. These word answers will fill in the blanks to create a silly Math Ad Lib story! You can choose to use just the blue (mild level practice
These 7th Grade Illustrated Math Ad Libs will add so much fun to your classroom throughout the year! 8 different Ad Libs are included to give students some extra practice with seventh grade math standards in a high interest way. Included Activity TopicsScale Factor and Area Factor RelationshipsConstant of Proportionality (Identify and Interpret)Negative Number Word ProblemsFraction to Percent Conversion (Prerequisite Skill for 7th Graders)Percent Increase and Decrease (Finding New & Original Val
In this fun editable Halloween Themed Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up 10 proportional ratio and rate word problems around the room for students to solve. All problems can be solved with proportional reasoning. Most of the problems involve using a whole number scale factor and have whole number answers, but there are also a few that use decimals. All problems are related to Halloween and include Halloween graphics that relate to the specific problem. Once students solve a problem, they wi
In this fun partially editable mini Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up 5 math problems around the room for students to solve. These are all word problems that involve adding and subtracting negative numbers. Three of the problems are integers only, and the other two have rational number decimal values to work with. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple choice answers to select their answer from. Each answer corresponds with a word. These word answers will fill in the bl
In this fun editable Math Ad Lib Circles Christmas activity, you will hang up 10 math problems around the room for students to solve. These are all word problems involving finding the area, circumference, diameter, and radius of circles. 3.14 is used as the approximation for π. All problems are holiday themed, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and winter in general. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple choice answers to select their answer from. Each answer corresponds
In this fun editable Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up 10 math problems around the room for students to solve. The problems ask students to find the volume or the surface area of various prisms. Prisms included are cubes, rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, trapezoidal prisms, pentagonal prisms, hexagonal prisms, and octagonal prisms. For the pentagon, hexagon, and octagon, the area of the base is given. For all other shapes, students must determine the area of the base given standard
In this fun editable Math Mad Lib activity, you will hang up 10 math problems around the room for students to solve. The problems are a mix of word problems and straightforward "Convert this fraction to a percentage" problems. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple choice answers to select their answer from. Each answer corresponds with a word. These word answers will fill in the blanks to create a silly Math Ad Lib story! Students love to read and illustrate these silly stor
In this fun editable Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up the 10 math problems around the room. All problems ask students to solve problems exploring the relationship between scale factor and the areas of shapes. Most of the problems have multiple access points. Students can solve by using the scale factor to find the new side lengths and then use these side lengths to calculate the area OR students can rely on their knowledge that the area will relate by the square of the scale factor. Both
In this Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up the 10 math problems around the room. All problems ask students to solve problems about percent increase or decrease. The problems ask students to find a new value given a percent increase or decrease, find an original value given the percent increase or decrease, or find the percentage increase or decrease given the new and original values. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple choice answers to select their answer from. Each ans
In this fun editable Math Ad Lib activity, you will hang up the 10 math problems around the room. All problems ask students to either identify or to interpret the Constant of Proportionality from a table or a graph. Once students solve a problem, they will have 4 multiple choice answers to select their answer from. Each answer corresponds with a word. These word answers will fill in the blanks to create a silly Math Ad Lib story! You can edit the story components of this activity! Students l
At Move Mind Math, I create math materials that combine active movement with an engaged mind! This is your home for resources to support IM® Grades 6-8 Math and more. Let me help you build your thinking classroom!
Awards & shining teacher moments
2-time Edith May Slyffe Award winner for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics;
Open Up Resources Teacher of the Month;
Teacher of the Year - MSD
9-time Mathcounts State Champion Coach
My own education history
B.S. Elementary and Middle Level Education with specialization in Mathematics - Taylor University;
Masters of Educational Technology - Wilson College
Additional biographical information
move.mind.math@gmail.com
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