Charlotte's Mathatorium

This is a quick and easy reward system for when you "catch" your student exhibiting behaviors that show social emotional learning. Instructions and ideas are simple, and everything is ready to use.

This is a quick and fun poetry contest for Valentine's Day. Use as a bell ringer, warm up, exit ticket, homework or extra credit. Good for intro to poetry units. Fun!

This bundle is all you need for teaching rational numbers. It includes my most popular rational numbers lessons, worksheets and activities. Easy one-stop shopping!

This is a set of lesson plans for Middle School so that the students can celebrate Pi Day in every class. There are plans for English Language Arts, Social Studies and Science. Math teachers--why keep all the fun for yourself? Help your team celebrate Pi Day!

This lesson plan contains everything you need (in an editable version) to present a fun, hands-on measurement lesson. The students will have a blast using common school objects as well as their bodies and limbs to measure areas in the school. The students will also learn the story of Oliver Smoot, whose body was used to measure a bridge in Boston MA. Finally, in the extension activity, the students learn to present data to a larger audience.

This is an activity to use at the beginning of a ratios and proportions unit. The students will be up and active, and should be having fun while they learn. They will select different body parts (from an authorized list!) to measure in centimeters, write ratios and simplify the ratios. Then they will compare their ratios with other students'. All you need is a tape measure for each pair of students; then just print and hand out! You can then use the data collected here for many more proportions

This lesson includes notes, explanations, examples, exercises, and 2 challenge problems for measures of central tendency. It includes mean, median, mode, range and mean absolute deviation. Perfect for partners to learn cooperatively. This lesson can be used to introduce the topic, as a review before assessment, or in the middle of the topic for reinforcement/reteaching. Excellent for students who were absent for part or all of the unit. Perfect for home school.

Here is a great way to practice ratios, have fun and learn about another culture. Great to use at Hanukkah time or any time of the year. This worksheet and class chart teaches the students how to play dreidel and then instructs them to practice finding and writing ratios as they play. Dreidels are available inexpensively on the internet, and you only need one per group of students.

This is an energy conservation project lesson plan, with teacher notes, student handouts, and step-by-step instructions. This is ready to go--just print! Tip: print project documents on colored paper if possible, so students can easily find their handouts among their other papers.

This lesson includes notes, vocabulary, explanations, examples, exercises, and word problems for learning to construct coordinate graphs. Perfect for partners to learn cooperatively. This lesson can be used to introduce the topic, as a review before assessment, or in the middle of the topic for reinforcement/reteaching. Excellent for students who were absent for part or all of the unit. Perfect for home school. Answer key is included!

This is a super fun activity that combines math review questions with a student's favorite topic--himself or herself! Students will solve problems to determine what features to draw on a person. Male and female people are included, and an answer key is included. These are cute enough when finish to display in your classroom! Ready to go--all you need to do is copy and hand out!

This research project has everything you need to download and email to your students. It is able to be completed at home with very little assistance, and a rubric is included. There are quite a few choices so the students will be researching a topic in which they are interested. They might not even realize they are learning!

This is a quick, two sided worksheet that explores the concept of odd/even in 4 different ways. Can also be used as an assessment, since the students will have different modalities in which to show what they know. NOTE: the image online looks weird but the download looks normal!

This is a super fun activity for practicing 2 and 3 digit multiplication! Students create a monster as they solve, and the teacher can quickly check the appearance of the monster to assess the skill. For example, does the monster have glasses or crazy hair? Only one of these will be correct! There are two different monsters so students will not all have the same result. A full answer key is provide. All you have to do is print and hand out! If your students like this activity, check out my Divis

This is a differentiated math review game for end of year OR ANYTIME! It uses dice to have the students add, subtract, multiply and divide 2 digit or 3 digit numbers. It's a competitive game with scores in the tens of thousands, so the kids love it! Just print and hand out! (the preview looks messed up but when you download, it will be straightened out!)

This is a quick and relatively easy project containing measures of central tendency, bar graphs and circle graphs. Everything is included (except rulers and protractors, of course!) so just print and hand out. This can be done individually or in pairs. Perfect for the end of the year, when spring fever has grabbed the students (and you!)

This is a super fun activity for practicing 2 and 3 digit division! Students create a dog as they solve, and the teacher can quickly check the appearance of the dog to assess the skill. For example, does the dog have glasses or a long tongue? Only one of these will be correct! There are two different dogs so students will not all have the same result. A full answer key is provided. All you have to do is print and hand out! If your students like this, check out my Multiplication Monsters!

This is a fun, quick math vocabulary activity. Students decide on the definitions and then color a mandala according to their answers. Answer key is included, for immediate correcting. Perfect for distance learning, easy for parents and teachers to check, seems more like fun than work! (the thumbnails look weird, but it will download correctly.)

This is a one-day activity in which students use unit rates to find the best buy between 2 grocery stores. They also compare buying only based on unit rates vs. having to buy an entire package of something. Students are up and out of their seats, engaged in the activity, and interested in the topic. My students have loved this activity for years!

This project is perfect for 2nd and 3rd graders to combine their understanding of clocks and time, their ability to write and solve equations, and their cutting, pasting and designing skills. Instructions for students are simple enough that teacher notes are not required! Just print and hand out!