Cohen's Creativity Corner

This is a graphic organizer with a sample included for students to create their own math stories that involve word problmes in which you need to interpret the remainder. Students come up with one scene in which the remainder is ignored, one in which the answer is rounded up to the next whole number, and one in which it is reported as a fraction or decimal. A sample is included!

This is a wonderful, open-ended assignment that uses students' own daily activities as a launch for creating multi-step word problems. They will record the duration of their after school activities, create word problems for a peer to solve, but must create a detailed answer key as well.

This factor rainbow template is great for students to practice finding all the factor pairs of a number. There is space at the bottom to extend this concept to prime, composite, square, odd, even, etc! Use it as a fun activity or even as an assessment.

This fall-themed worksheet of word problems has students solve using the vertical algorithm and check their work with estimation or partial products. It also has two extension challenge problems that contain multiple steps! You can easily alter these word problems for various seasons or holidays.

This game has students practicing comparing fractions using the Least Common Multiple strategy to create equivalent fractions with like denominators. Can be used with dice or number cards.

This chart helps students investigate with estimating the length of objects in centimeters. You can also change the unit to explore with inches, feet, pounds, ounces, etc!