Acute as a Button

Tangrams are 7 piece puzzles that date back to Ancient China. Using just the 7 shapes: 5 triangles, 1 square, and 1 parallelogram - one can create abstract puzzles of animals, people, and objects. Sometimes you will have students who are looking for a challenge - I always have one or two in my class who need something beyond their classmates. This Math Tangram Puzzle takes solving for variables one step further by having the variable on both sides of the equation. Perfect way to differentiat

Tangrams are 7 piece puzzles that date back to Ancient China. Using just the 7 shapes: 5 triangles, 1 square, and 1 parallelogram - one can create abstract puzzles of animals, people, and objects. This activity includes two different puzzles: one with 7 expressions, the other with 6. Students will need to follow the order of operations to solve each expression. A worksheet for each puzzle is provided for you to print out and give to the students. As they work through each expression, they ca

Students will practice using the distributive property as they simplify expressions on their Answer Tiles. With 16 Tiles and only 12 solutions, students will have a few tiles that are not matched up. This deck only works with positive integers, but translated copies of the activity are provided for ELL students. This activity is translated into Portuguese (green card), Spanish (red card) and Turkish (purple card). All of my translated activities use the same color coded system. When I use

Page 1 of this PDF is a notes sheet that I have shared with my students as a review of their Mathematical Properties. For Associative and Commutative properties, I give a definition of the root word to help them remember the difference. Page 2 will be used during our Integers unit, showing how we can rewrite any subtraction expression into an addition expression using positive and negative integers. You can share one or both pages with your students. To share just one page, you can open th

Real World Multiplication Scenarios I is a fun loop game that you can play with your students to help reinforce their multiplication skills. Each card uses a real world scenario that brings math into your student’s world. This PDF contains four sheets, with six cards per sheet. The last page lists the questions in order, along with their answers and the math to help guide your students if they are stuck. There are PowerPoint slides to go along with your game. To play the game, simply print the