Core Rigor

Number Talks for grades 3-5 contains 170 bundled exercises for daily computation and/or problem solving practice to develop and refine accuracy, efficiency, flexibility, and procedural knowledge while building math stamina. Explaination of the purpose, the teacher's role, the student's role,and directions for conducting the number talks is included. Number Talks provide daily insight for students, peers and the classroom teacher in discovering ways to work with numbers and solv

Stop the summer “brain drain” by equipping your students with simple and quick daily activities to maintain skills over the summer. Packet includes a motivating letter to parents and a list of grade level specific activities aligned to CCSS. The teacher who follows you in the child’s educational career will be impressed with the academic skills in which your students remained proficient. Your former students will begin the following year on solid ground. The first year of use of

As an early childhood teacher, you are now charged with laying a strong foundation in the understanding of fractions rather than diving into the mathematical operations of fractions, which is now reserved to begin in grade 4. In many ways this relieves a lot of anxiety in classrooms around the USA. But in other aspects, the teaching of these foundational skills must be thorough and concrete, culminating in mathematical representation on paper, which leads to stress in developing another type of

The activities for the base 10 math strand enable students to represent and count in multiple ways, use the appropriate numeral to represent a number, and represent numbers in terms of tens and ones. Although students should first be exposed to and practice concrete representations (manipulatives), these exercises, whether presented by demonstration to whole group, completed in pairs or small groups, or as individual practice; will bridge the transition from concrete to abstract. The unit inc

This product contains easy to implement activities for whole group, small group, pairs or individual practice and require the use of all mathematics practice standards. Templates may be altered and duplicated as whole page assignments or cut apart for distribution among groups for practice in understanding and extending patterns, working with variables, working with functions, and equivalences. Patterns: 3 pages of patterns to extend and explain 100s chart puzzle

This activity is a perfect example of how to use all of that stale candy corn from Halloween in a math center for building numeration skills. It can be used for composing and decomposing numbers, practicing addition skills, and as place value mats. Simply cut a long oval for the corn cob in yellow construction paper and a corn shuck pattern in green.Paste the two together and laminate, which allows you to wipe off when they become sticky. Write on them with dry erase or Vis-a-vie markers for rep

The "hands-on" activities in this unit cover the 3 categories of geometric instruction: 1.Geometry shapes, their components (sides,angles faces, etc.), their properties, and categorization based on those properties. 2.Composing and decomposing geometric shapes. 3.Spatial relations and spatial structuring Activity types: 1.Sorting 2.Making Shapes 3.Composing and Decomposing Shapes 4.Segmenting equal shares (fractional parts of a shape)

No matter what standardized test program to which you are held accountable, these no-prep math stations will challenge your students with multiple operations, multiple steps, and multiple modalities in solving word problems pictorially and mathematically. Just copy and place in math stations for a no-prep review. An answer key is included for the final answer, however since there is no one way of solving a math problem (equations, models, pictures, mental math steps etc.) only the final answer

 Building proficiency in number names is the first step toward exemplary Common Core math scores . It gives students the automaticity in number value recognition and the variety of representations of that number to quickly begin the thinking process toward problem solving.  This daily practice can be done on wipe off boards, in a math journal (small amount of space), or anywhere you prefer. It depends on whether you want the exercise kept for reference for the student and/or progress journal

This is a short “hands-on” unit that lays the foundation for working with 3-D shapes in the upper grades. The exploration of 3-D shapes enables students to realize that 3-D shapes are not flat, have faces, edges and corners.