Challenging Minds

A color-coded anchor chart for students explaining each of the geometric concepts with graphic.

For these introductory puzzle shapes, 10 of the 12 pentomino piece shapes can form puzzles that can be solved using only four of the pentomino pieces. Challenge your students to solve each one. There can be more than one solution in many of the puzzles! Versatile activities for warm-up brain teasers, early finisher folders, or learning centers! Emphasize the use of Visual/Spatial Smarts, Kinesthetic/Body Smarts, and Logic Smarts multiple intelligences. Includes -- "Transformations Poster" also

For this stock market unit, you'll receive everything in easy to use PDF format for any or all parts you want to teach hands-on, or have students work on paper. As a bonus,within in the PDF document, there are embedded Google doc links! The links prompt you to make a copy of the document for easy download to use with Drive or Google Classroom. These Google documents may be used in place of any paper-version of the activity. This PDF guide with activities can be implemented hands-on with PDF for

See 20 samples pages of this 84 page book FREE! Challenge learners with puzzles and activities that sharpen creative and critical thinking skills. Each 2-page activity sheet is a combination of different puzzles that apply and strengthen problem solving and logic thinking skills. Each activity sheet is an excellent resource for enrichment or extension learning including practice with analogies, improvisation writing, word connections, and brain teasers. Each activity sheet also focuses on on

Challenge learners with puzzles that apply and strengthen problem solving using basic math operations and logic thinking skills. Each puzzle consists of four numbers using various order of operations to always equal 24! PDF Download (33 pages) includes the updated format design with new digital resources linked! · Blank template also provided to allow students to create and solve their own made-up Challenge 24 puzzles. · Colorful green chevron number cards are included with book to create a

All you need are rulers, these easy-to-use data sheets and a United States atlas of individual state maps for New Mexico, Utah, Iowa, and Oklahoma for this lesson! Whole Class: Use one map to practice measuring distances between cities together. Points to emphasize: • Shortest distance between two cities is straight line, but not all interstates and roads are straight! • Check map scales for each state, size of states vary and scale could change Small Group/Individual: Use remaining three map

Thinkercises (Level A: Grades 1-3) Ages 7-9The puzzles in this book are designed to help students improve their logical thinking and problem solving skills. These activity pages are perfect for "bell ringer" or anchor activities. Our cognitive abilities are brain-based skills we need to carry out any task, simple or complex. These abilities have more to do with how we learn, learn, remember, problem-solve and pay attention rather than actual knowledge. The problems in this book are also designed

A resource for learning centers, class activities and reinforcement of basic math skills using a standard deck of cards. Book includes 13 math games with detailed instruction sheets and scoring sheets to practice number operations, median, mode, mean, range and strategic thinking games. Games are a positive connection between math and real-life experiences while providing practice in specific skills. Math games provide opportunities for learners to reason and communicate mathematically and int

Tangrams are an excellent exercise for the classroom, they provide practice in 2-dimensional spatial work. Activities with tangrams provide opportunities to "see" relationships between the different sizes and shapes. Tangrams are arranged to form alphabet letters and numbers. Activity pages can be laminated and used in math stations, or as enrichment extensions.

Flexible Basic Math Operations Activity for Whole Group or Small Group Instruction - the perfect practice for math centers, early finishers, and task card stations! Two ways to PICK 5: **Use the 12 Task Cards for pre-selected numbers, plus a blank template to create your own Task Cards for centers and stations. **Choose Your Own Numbers 1– 24 Activity In random selection of numbers, you can determine which of the five numbers should be the answer. You can also allow multiple equations and the

Introduce or review probability with these investigations to engage and enrich understanding. Statistics and probability play an integrated part of our lives and in how we make decisions based on information available. Probability exercises allows students: -gather appropriate information for simple analysis -calculate probability percentage from the whole -record data on graphic organizer -evaluate own research and compare results with others, answering related questions in how probability aff

Engaging & Easy STEM/STEAM Challenge For Any Classroom There are many variations of these challenges that have similar goals and steps. This easy-to-implement STEAM challenge activity offers variations in data collection to differentiate within the classroom or by grade level readiness. This Paper Structure Challenge #3 (of a set) begins easy, then additional challenges are gradually altered in goal and difficulty. This allows students to use improvements and knowledge gained from previous cha

Engaging & Easy STEM/STEAM Challenge For Any Classroom There are many variations of these challenges that have similar goals and steps. This easy-to-implement STEAM challenge activity offers variations in data collection to differentiate within the classroom or by grade level readiness. This Paper Structure Challenge #2 (of a set) begins easy, then additional challenges are gradually altered in goal and difficulty. This allows students to use improvements and knowledge gained from previous cha

Use these 2 activity boards and a deck of cards as an introductory activity or learning station to reinforce place value with decimals. Activity Board #1 - Practice adding money using four-digit problems and decimals to hundredths Activity Board #2 - Practice adding four-digit problems and decimals to thousandths Lesson includes detailed rules for place and data sheet templates for student players to record and add their scores.