Creative Learning Ideas

Puzzled Penguin is a cute, little penguin who needs student's help in figuring out whether he has the right or wrong answer. Students respond to P. Penguin in a speech bubble and use words and numbers to justify their response back to him. Students must use critical thinking skills in order to support their reasoning. This pack includes: comparing numbers, writing numbers, subtracting and adding numbers, multiplying, dividing, comparing fractions, unit fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and ela

Need some great Halloween themed math resources to engage and challenge your students? Try this pack which includes a multiplication/division activity using candy corn, a game called Candy Corn Double +1 where students roll a dice, double the number and then add 1 to the product, and finally a Halloween logic puzzle where students must figure out which character dressed up with each costume and how many pieces of candy they got trick-or-treating.

This pack includes 3 unique games to practice and reinforce basic division skills and concepts. Division Monster Mash is a great way for students to practice finding simple quotients with problems written in both division formatting. Fishing for Remainders reinforces students' understanding of remainders. In this game, students are looking to create the largest remainder to earn points. Finally, in Find the Missing Factor, students use their understanding of multiplication and division to find t

This scavenger hunt uses cute fall and Halloween themed cards to review concepts such as multiplication, division, comparisons, unit conversions, basic operations, and place value. Laminate the cards, hide them around the room, and let students use their answer sheets to record their answers to the questions. Great active review of beginning of the year concepts. Graphics from © Laura Strickland/MyCuteGraphics.com.

In this game, students either work by themselves or with a group to sort the frogs onto the correct lily pad by either rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand. Game includes color board which can printed and glued into a file folder and then laminated, 12 game cards, student recording page, and an answer sheet.

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered in this set include adding by 1, adding by 10, and adding by 100. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

Bundled together in one great pack are activities themed for the fall and Halloween! Included are: Candy Corn Activities for problem solving and a game where students use a dice to practice doubling and adding 1 to a number. A logic puzzle where students must read clues in order to discover who collected the most candy and who wore which costume. Math Scavenger Hunt cards and answer sheet--Hide these cards around the room and let students work individually or with a partner to solve the quest