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Want to help your students increase their conceptual knowledge in the mathematics content area? Word problems are a great way to help them do just that! Research states, time and again, that when students are challenged to apply conceptual knowledge, their understanding of those concepts increases. Especially when they are permitted to work collaboratively in structured, heterogeneous groups. This 61 page product includes 38 weeks worth of daily word problems, a "how to use this product" page,

This Smack in the Middle created center is sure to quickly become a class favorite. It is a fun and engaging way to get your students to learn and gain fluency with their multiplication facts! Your students will use their deductive reasoning skills, as well as knowledge of multiplication facts, to try to correctly identify either the product or expression written on their Fact Bands card. Included support materials will help to ensure that all students are successful with this center as they

This game will help your students develop their ability to identify benchmark rational numbers in a variety of representations. This game includes 10 benchmark fraction cards, 10 benchmark decimal cards, 10 benchmark rational number model cards, and 6 frog cards. Each fraction, decimal, and model card has an equivalent card in the other two representations. Students are tasked with the challenge of finding the fraction, decimal, and model card that each represent the same number. The frog cards

interactive, engaging task card activity / center that is designed to help your students build fluency and conceptual knowledge of the concept of percent and how it is related to rational numbers.

Help your students learn their multiplication facts with ease. Our brains are hard wired to learn by categorizing information. Touch Tables are designed so that students can implement multiple modalities (touch and sound) while they skip count their way to fact fluency. This product includes three different sizes: a full sheet (includes 1 Touch Table on a full page), a half sheet (includes 2 Touch Tables on one full page), and a 1/4 sheet (includes 4 Touch Tables on one full page). The variety

Problem solving can invoke a plethora of emotions. For most, these two words invoke feelings of fear and anxiety. One way that you can help to reduce those feelings within your students is to provide them with helpful tools, such as the Problem Solving Guidance Cards, while they are transitioning from the apprentice stage to the expert stage. Whether your 4th, 5th, or 6th grade students are working independently or with a group, use these problem solving guidance cards to help them navigate th