Creative Lab

Engage your students in real-world mathematics! Let's Go Shopping is a print-and-go collection of 21 real-world math activities that take your students on an exciting, fast-paced, journey to Valley Shopping Mall. Everything form creating a wish list, estimating costs, researching actual costs, reviewing a shopping list, staying within a prescribed budget, viewing street maps, reading bus schedules, calculating bus fare, keeping track of the time, navigating the mall map, choosing a shopping ro

When you have a chance, feel free to download this free math word problem-solving resource I created a few years ago. How do Math Problem-Solving Templates help students?Helps organize student's thinkingHelps students understand what the question is askingEncourages multiple ways of representing understandingProvides a "reasonableness" checkHelps students assess their own learningI have been using this template with my class for the past few years and find it to be very helpful. I hope that you