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3rd Grade Math Mats with Notes for Math Intervention & Small Group Toolkit
Support student understanding of key 3rd grade math skills with this growing bundle of printable Math Support Mats with Notes. These reusable math mats combine visual math notes, worked examples, strategy reminders, and open workspace to help students model strategies, organize their thinking, and solve problems independently.Think of them as graphic organizers for math.Perfect for small group instruction, math intervention, guided math, RTI, math centers, and independent practice. Simply print
3rd
Basic Operations
Divergent Critical Thinking: Powerpoint and 30 Daily Practices
Critical Thinking Skills Development: DivergentStudents need help developing critical thinking skills - not just academic skills. This resource combines an instructional powerpoint (1 lesson) and one month of practice activities (30 days) to help you develop students that use deep thinking. Suggested Uses: - Morning Work or Morning Meeting - Math/Reading warm up - Math/Reading critical thinking center - Daily class challenge problem - Homework challenge question - and many more!!! Note: Answer
2nd - 5th
Math
Also included in: Critical Thinking Skills Bundle: Powerpoints and 30 Daily Practices
Gifted Thinking Choice Boards | Critical & Creative Thinking for Learners
Looking for ready-to-use enrichment activities that keep your gifted and advanced learners challenged? This resource includes 8 differentiated choice boards designed to spark curiosity, promote higher-order thinking, and encourage creativity across subjects. Perfect for literacy circles, centers, fast finishers, enrichment groups, and independent projects! ✨ What’s Included: 8 Ready-to-Use Choice Boards: • Critical & Creative Thinking (any subject) • ELA – Novel/Story Extensions • Math Enrichm
K - 4th
Other (ELA), Other (Math)
Critical Thinking: Advanced Logic & Patterns | Scaffolded Sequences (K-G2)
Critical Thinking: Advanced Logic & Patterns | Scaffolded Sequences (K-Grade 2)Challenge young minds with logic puzzles inspired by world-class math competitions!Are you looking for high-quality resources that go beyond simple repetition? This Advanced Logic Sequences pack is designed to bridge the gap between basic patterns and complex cognitive reasoning. Inspired by the rigorous standards of SASMO and Math Kangaroo, these worksheets push students to observe, analyze, and deduce—not just gue
K - 3rd
Geometry, Math Test Prep, Mental Math
CCSS
K.G.B.4
, 1.G.A.1
, 2.G.A.1
+2
What Doesn't Belong Winter | Critical Thinking Activity
This Winter/Christmas/December activity is a great whole group or small group activity for students to develop critical thinking skills and reasoning. It can easily tie into literacy or math! You can see the ENTIRE packet by checking out the preview to make sure it is something that would be helpful in your classroom! Here is how it works best: Ask students which picture does not belong - what picture is different? (there are many diverse Christmas pictures!)There will be more than one answer t
PreK - 3rd
Math
Also included in: Winter Bundle | Math Resources | What Doesn't Belong, Critical Thinking
Think Like An Engineer. 3 Poster Set. STEM classroom decor
Inspire and empower your students with our Think Like An Engineer 3 Poster Set. Based on the bestselling children's book "Girls Can Be Engineers", these posters feature diverse images of professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. Perfect for middle school classrooms or STEM enrichment programs. This set includes two prints: "Think Like An Engineer: Scientific Method" and "An Engineer is Someone Who." Each poster is designed to be printed at 18 x 24 inches, but can
PreK - 3rd
Other (Math), Other (Science)
Australian Money - COINS, NOTES, ADDITION, SUBTRACTION. Fish Market Workbook
Fish Market: Australian Money Workbook brings beauty and wonder into the maths classroom through hand-drawn artwork that inspires connection to the natural world. Designed for Year 2–3 students, this workbook helps learners use Australian coins and notes in real-life contexts while exploring fascinating fish facts that spark curiosity and c ross-curricular thinking. Activities include things such as building their own fish tank, which promotes autonomy and creativity as they practise money ski
1st - 4th
Financial Literacy, Money Math, Place Value
Printable Math Enrichment Game | Critical Thinking Activity | Fast Finisher Work
This Dots & Boxes Enrichment Game is a perfect math enrichment activity. This partner game challenges students to think critically about how to ensure they win the game. This can be used as a math center, or as an option for fast finishers. This is a great printable, no-prep enrichment game! An engaging option for gifted and talented students, as well as everyone else! This game is easy to differentiate to meet your needs. Great for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade students. This Product Includes:
3rd - 6th
Math
Printable Math Enrichment Game | Critical Thinking Activity | Fast Finisher Work
This Order & Chaos Enrichment Game is a perfect math enrichment activity. This partner game challenges students to think critically about how to ensure they win the game. This can be used as a math center, or as an option for fast finishers. This is a great printable, no-prep enrichment game! An engaging option for gifted and talented students, as well as everyone else! This game is easy to differentiate to meet your needs. Great for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade students. This Product Includes
3rd - 6th
Math
4th Grade Math Interactive Notebook with Sticky Notes NBT
This is a great way to make note taking and learning interactive and fun for students. All NBT standards are Common Core aligned and each entry offers different types of questions. The components of the journals are as follows:
*Title and Standard Description Section
*Note Taking Section (Great way to model note taking skills)
*Computation Questions (Questions 1 and 2)
*Word Problems, Error Analysis Problems,Critical Thinking Problems (Questions 3 and 4)
*Exit Ticket/Slip (Question 5, Check
3rd - 5th
Math
CCSS
4.NBT.A.1
, 4.NBT.A.2
, 4.NBT.A.3
+3
LOGIC PUZZLES with 5 Little Monsters Critical Thinking Deductive Reasoning GATE
LOGIC PUZZLES with 5 Little Monsters provide an engaging, interactive, digital activity for exercising logic and reasoning skills. Best suited for 2nd – 4th graders, students will exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusions, problem solving, sequencing, and computation. Learners will read a set of clues that lead them to the solution. LOGIC PUZZLES with 5 Little Monsters is available exclusively on TPT Easel. This platform works on any device suitable for digital learning.
2nd - 4th
Math
CCSS
MP1
LOGIC PUZZLES for ST. PATRICK'S DAY Critical Thinking Sudoku Algebraic Reasoning
LEPRECHAUN LOGIC PUZZLES provide an engaging, interactive, digital activity for exercising logic and reasoning skills. Best suited for 2nd – 4th graders, students will exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusions, problem solving, sequencing, and computation. Your students will work on up to eleven slides. Five puzzles present a set of clues that learners must use to solve the puzzle. Two puzzles are introductory Sudoku challenges. The final four puzzles are algebraic thinki
2nd - 4th
Math
CCSS
MP1
3rd grade Operations and Algebraic Thinking IEP goals
Do you feel frustrated and overwhelmed with everything on your plate? No need to sweat the small stuff. Relieve your current and future headaches with these premade IEP goals. There is no mixing and matching needed. This premade 3rd Grade Operations and Algebraic Thinking IEP goals packet is designed to save you valuable time, frustration, and headaches. Simply fill in the bold information to personalize each goal. This 3rd Grade Operations and Algebraic Thinking IEP goals packet is designed t
3rd
Math
CCSS
3.OA.A.1
, 3.OA.A.2
, 3.OA.A.3
+6
Also included in: 3rd Grade Math IEP goals bundle
LOGIC PUZZLES - Cat-tastrophe! Critical Thinking Problem Solving
Cat-tastrophe! LOGIC PUZZLES provide an engaging, interactive, digital activity for exercising logic and reasoning skills. Best suited for 2nd – 4th graders, students will exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusions, problem solving, sequencing, and computation. Learners will read a set of clues that lead them to the solution. Cat-tastrophe! LOGIC PUZZLES is available exclusively on TPT Easel. This platform works on any device suitable for digital learning. No print prod
2nd - 4th
Math
CCSS
MP1
Basic Fraction Notes
Use these two notes pages as a whole group or small group lesson to kickstart your fractions unit! I used these as a whole group lesson, and we color coded the parts of a fraction!
1st - 3rd
Math
Counting Numbers by 2, 5, & 10 | Rumi, Rapunzel, & Elsa
Note: The watermark will not show up on the digital download. ------------------------------------------ Dear Parents & Teachers, Here is a great worksheet to motivate your children & students to learn their counting numbers which could also be translated to multiplication as well. There are two versions of this worksheet. One is laid out by me with counting starting at 2,4, 6, 8, ... 5, 10, 15, 20, ... 10, 20, 30, 40, .. Then a blank worksheet where you can insert in your own numbers! Have f
2nd - 4th
Arithmetic, Mental Math, Numbers
Montessori-Inspired Number of Farms in America Timeline
I think of this lesson as almost a 3D bar graph, which is a more concrete representation of large quantities in a way accessible to the young child. The lesson begins by demonstrating how to lay out the timeline in a number line format so that students understand the time frame of our lesson. Next, we go over historical changes in technology that have impacted the American farming industry. Finally, the students observe the growth and decline in the number of farms in our country. Provided is a
K - 6th
Math, Social Studies, U.S. History
Also included in: Montessori-Inspired Agriculture Unit Bundle
Depth & Complexity Decimal Word Problem Frame
Get your students to think like mathematicians! In this decimal word problem, students will need to compare and order four different decimals and determine which runner won the race. Students will also be asked to find the important details needed to solve, rules to working with decimals, and language a mathematician or statistician would use to discuss the problem. Finally, students will be asked to solve the problem different ways and explain their thinking.
Included in this lesson are:
+ 1 D
3rd - 5th
Decimals, Other (Math)
CCSS
4.NF.C.7
Snowman Visual Logic Puzzles
Snowman Visual Logic PuzzlesBuild critical thinking and visual discrimination skills with this colorful snowman-themed picture task card set. Using visual-spatial skills and logic, students look for shared characteristics in order to decide which 1 of 4 snowmen belongs to the group. No reading required! Go Paperless!Assign the Easel Assessment version of this product through your learning management system. Students have fun completing the self-checking critical thinking brainteasers on their
K - 5th
Math
Broken Calculator Math Enrichment and Warm Up
Broken Calculators gets kids into rigorous mathematical thinking through whole group, small group, or independent practice. It is a way for enrichment and math warm ups and practices skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It is also perfect for remote OR in person students. This structure is also easy to adapt and differentiate, and is great for group work and mathematical conversations in the classroom. This product includes 7 weeks (40 slides) of daily practice. Dependi
3rd - 8th
Math, Mental Math
Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB, Enrichment worksheets for 3rd,4th,5th grade
Looking for a low-prep way to boost critical thinking and math/writing enrichment in your 3rd–5th grade classroom? This engaging collection of Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB challenges, and Emoji Math will have your students thinking deeply and having fun. Both Worksheet and Task Card versions included! Perfect for early finishers, GATE/GT/TAG (gifted education), math stations, enrichment blocks, or sub plans—and it comes in both full color and black & white for easy printing!*Note: These ar
3rd - 5th
Creative Writing, Other (Arts), Other (Math)
Free Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB,Enrichment worksheets for 3rd-5th grade
Looking for a low-prep way to boost critical thinking and math/writing enrichment in your 3rd–5th grade classroom? This engaging collection of Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB challenges, and Emoji Math will have your students thinking deeply and having fun. Both Worksheet and Task Card versions included! Perfect for early finishers, GATE/GT/TAG (gifted education), math stations, enrichment blocks, or sub plans—and it comes in both full color and black & white for easy printing! *Notes: - The
3rd - 5th
Creative Writing, For All Subjects, Other (Math)
Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB, Enrichment worksheets for 3rd,4th, 5th grade
Looking for a low-prep way to boost critical thinking and math/writing enrichment in your 3rd–5th grade classroom? This engaging collection of Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB challenges, and Emoji Math will have your students thinking deeply and having fun. Both Worksheet and Task Card versions included! Perfect for early finishers, GATE/GT/TAG (gifted education), math stations, enrichment blocks, or sub plans—and it comes in both full color and black & white for easy printing! *Note: These
3rd - 5th
Creative Writing, For All Subjects, Other (Math)
Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB,Enrichment worksheets for 3rd, 4th, 5th SET G
Looking for a low-prep way to boost critical thinking and math/writing enrichment in your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classroom? This engaging collection of Logic Puzzles, Brain Teasers, WODB challenges, and Emoji Math will have your students thinking deeply and having fun. Both Worksheet and Task Card versions included! Perfect for early finishers, GATE/GT/TAG (gifted education), math stations, enrichment blocks, or sub plans—and it comes in both full color and black & white for easy printing! *No
3rd - 5th
Creative Writing, For All Subjects, Other (Math)
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