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These spring-themed emergency sub plans can help you prepare your students’ lessons quickly and easily on those days when you’re just not feeling well enough to go to school. Just copy and leave your papers in your classroom sub tub for your substitute. It’s that easy! Your 3rd grade students will enjoy these spring topics. There are enough activities to last for 2 days, or more! 3rd grade lessons are provided for math, language, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Work for ea

These winter-themed emergency sub plans can help you prepare your students’ lessons quickly and easily on those days when you’re just not feeling well enough to go to school. Just copy and leave your papers in your classroom for your sub. It’s that easy! Your 3rd grade students will enjoy these winter topics. There are enough activities to last for 2 days, or more! 3rd grade lessons are provided for math, language, reading, writing, science, and social studies. Work for early finishers a

Are you looking for a fun way for your students to practice a variety of skills and celebrate National Hamburger Day? These burger-themed activities are just what you are looking for! Students can practice ELA skills as well as math skills while celebrating everything hamburgers! These fun activities can be enjoyed on National Hamburger Day (May 28th) or on any other day of the year. Answer Keys are included. ⭐What's Included⭐ Nonfiction Reading Passage - 2 Levels with Comprehension QuestionsGou

If you are looking for quality time worksheets, then this is the perfect product for you! With these fun spring-themed worksheets, students can practice telling time to the nearest hour, nearest half-hour, nearest 5 minutes, and nearest minute. They can also further practice their understanding of A.M. vs P.M. With elapsed time worksheets and a whole-class activity, students can solidify their understanding of how to solve elapsed time problems. The fun cooperative learning “Around the Ro

Add some seasonal fun to your math lessons with these 1-quardant and 4-quadrant Star Wars coordinate graphing pictures! Perfect for upper elementary students, this engaging set includes four May the 4th coordinate graphing mystery pictures that combine math practice with fun characters. Each picture includes Quadrant 1 coordinate plane and four-quadrant instructions, allowing for easy differentiation and skill-building. Plus, an Intro to Coordinate Graphing presentation is included to help i

What if counting change clicked for your students the same way counting to 100 does? This resource bridges the gap between a skill they already have and one they're still learning — using a hundreds chart to make making change visual, logical, and memorable. Perfect for 2nd-4th grade students who need a concrete tool before they can work abstractly with money. I used this approach with my daughter to help her learn how to count change so she could help with our family business. She caught on to

These math challenge problems are perfect for high school students!  Students need to use the digits 2, 0, 2, and 7 to solve for the numbers 1-100.  There are many ways to solve each problem, but students will need to be creative and use more than just the 4 basic operations.  The answer keys are included.   Disclaimer:  These problems are meant to be a challenge for students.  The solutions might require knowledge of operations that might not be a part of the standard math curriculum.  (The ans

These task cards provide students with practice solving composite area problems involving rectangles. Students can solve word problems, answer task analysis questions, and use area model organizers to solve composite area problems. Questions in the format of multiple choice and open ended problems will allow students a variety of area practice tasks. A teacher resource list is provided for usage of task cards. A student recording sheet is provided.  Answer keys are also provided. ⭐ Wh

Add some seasonal fun to your math lessons with these Thanksgiving coordinate graphing pictures! Perfect for upper elementary students, this engaging set includes four Thanksgiving coordinate graphing mystery pictures that combine math practice with festive fall fun. Each picture includes Quadrant 1 coordinate plane and four-quadrant instructions, allowing for easy differentiation and skill-building. Plus, an Intro to Coordinate Graphing presentation is included to help introduce or reinforc

These skip counting patterns worksheets are great visual tools to help students understand the patterns involved when skip counting. Not only can students color in skip counting multiples, but also record their observations about any pattern that is noticeable. Students will also gain some practice on relating facts such as x2’s and x4’s and x8’s. These math pattern pages are great resources for introducing skip counting to your students. Answer keys are provided. ⭐ What’s Included⭐ 100’

These Area and Perimeter Task Cards are perfect for extra practice, cooperative learning, or even direct instruction in your classroom! Students can practice finding the area and perimeter of rectangles, finding missing side lengths, relating their understanding of area and perimeter to solve problems, and more! Students can solve each task card, record their answers on a recording page, and check their work using the answer keys provided.  ⭐ What’s Included⭐ Teacher Resource: List of

This Halloween Multiplication Area Model worksheets can provide your students with a fun fall themed way to practice a multiplication strategy. Students will gain a better understanding of how to complete an area model to solve a multiplication problem consisting of 1 x 2 digits, 1 x 3 digits, or 1 x 4 digits. It also provides practice solving multiplication problems having 2 x 2 digits and 2 x 3 digits. A variety of practice problem formats allow teachers to customize the practice perfect

These Fraction Action cut and glue pages provide students with interactive and engaging practice with fraction concepts. Students can practice finding equivalent fractions, creating fraction comparison statements, determining statements that are true or false, and ordering fractions from least to greatest. Students can use their understanding of the benchmark of 1/2 to help with several of the fraction practice pages. Answer keys are provided. ⭐ What’s Included⭐ Equivalent Fraction Cut

Are you looking for addition and subtraction activities that go beyond the basic computation problems? With these addition and subtraction task cards your students can learn to think about math concepts on a deeper level through error analysis. These task cards can be used by individual students, cooperative learning partners, or as whole group instructional resources. Answer keys are provided. ⭐ What’s Included⭐ Teacher Resource: List of Possible Instructional Uses for Task Cards20 Additio

These Multi-Step Word Problem Task Cards provide students with extra practice in solving word problems. Your students can use these task cards for independent practice or cooperative learning activities to build a deeper understanding of how to solve multiple step word problems using equations with variables. These resources are perfect for whole group instruction, as well. Whether you are introducing word problems to your class or revisiting them in a spiraled review throughout the ye

Multiplication Task Cards provide students with extra practice solving multiplication word problems, practice writing word problems to match given data, practice writing multiplication/division fact family equations, and practice explaining the relationships between two multiplication equations. Students can also gain practice writing and connecting repeated addition equations with multiplication equations using arrays and equal groups. Individual task cards are perfect for early fi

Do your students need practice with basic number sense or skip counting? Number lines can help with both of these essential math concepts. Through a variety of number line tick marks, endpoints, and point plotting worksheets, your students can deepen their number sense awareness. These skills are necessary pre-requisite skills for counting, rounding, adding, and much more! Answer keys are provided. ⭐ What’s Included⭐ Number Lines Counting by 1’sNumber Lines Counting by 10’sIdentifying Unk

What’s black, white and cute all over? Pandas, of course! Celebrate them on National Panda Day - March 16th. Your students can enjoy learning about context clues, word ladders, alliteration, math patterns and sequences, multiplication facts, the distributive property and logic puzzles all thematically centered around giant pandas. Answer Keys are included. ⭐ What’s Included⭐ Context Clues Determine the meaning of panda related words within a short paragraph.Word Ladder Activity/oo/ wordsS

Take your students on an out-of-this-world math adventure with these engaging Space Coordinate Graphing Mystery Pictures! Perfect for upper elementary and middle school learners, this resource helps students practice plotting ordered pairs on the coordinate plane while uncovering four exciting space-themed images — the Earth, an astronaut, a meteor, and a satellite. Each picture comes with both 1st quadrant and 4-quadrant graphing directions, making it easy to differentiate for every

If you’re looking for extra practice using the area model, then here are some worksheets that would work well in your classroom! These Thanksgiving themed multiplication math worksheets will provide your students with extra multiplication practice. There are a variety of difficulty levels included to allow for differentiation based on students’ needs. Error analysis and explanation worksheets allow students to think deeper about their understanding of multiplication, thus increasing the r