Constructivist Cat

In this activity students get the chance to try to come up with their own solution in teams or individually and can practice their critical thinking skills with the printable manipulatives included. This activity is a good chance for students to think very abstractly about ratios. Primarily I made this project because I found the process of a 3:2 Pulldown to be fascinating. This is the process by which film, captured at 24 frames per second, is converted to video, filmed at 30 frames per second.

This game is intended to be a whole class activity. It can be adapted to play with any grade. It centers around creating equalities and inequalities and determining whether they are true or false. This version also includes the Fix it & Solve it versions of the game and printable cards. *The cards shown in the thumbnails were printed four to a page, the product takes up a full page each so that they can be scaled to your preferred size* Supplies: Cards (Provided) Ideally printed on cardstock a

This project gives students the chance to visualized division by 2 , 4, and 8 that may result in a fraction. There are 8 "orders" or problems for students to work through. This is most ideally done in small groups so students can practice their mathematical communication. There are two pages not shown in the thumbnails, the student explanation/story and the orders page. The magic of this activity happens in the work done on scratch paper by students. There is a lot to gain from practicing turnin