Creative Learning Ideas

Have students cut out these notes and glue in to their math journal when learning about rounding. Includes fill-in the blanks with simple vocabulary and steps for rounding a number. Also includes a cute picture to help concrete students visualize which numbers "rest" and which numbers "raise the score." Answer key included. If you enjoy this resource, download Rounding Frogs Sorting Game as an activity students can play to practice their rounding skills.

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

This project was the performance task we used at the end of our first nine weeks in 4th grade to assess students on several components: informational writing, human body systems, labels, place value, prime, composite, factors, multiples, patterns, word problems, creative writing. Students are given a lot of choice in this task. Once the pages are completed, they are glued into the "little book." This becomes a great piece to show at parent-teacher conferences since it encompasses so many differe

Do you need a classroom economy system or a way to practice using place value? This monkey themed money is just what you need! Money comes in denominations of 1; 10; 100; 1,000; 10,000; 100,000; 1,000,000. I use this money in my calendar math center in the daily depositor to help reinforce place value concepts, but it can be used for lots of other activities also! I run each place value on a different color before laminating them. Also check out my Bird Bucks for bird themed money.

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 "Bird Bucks" can be used as money for a daily depositor system, calendar math, economy system or to teach place value. The bills correlate with the place value system ones through one million. Images are created to be printed onto color paper, therefore, the images are in grays, black, and white. Graphics provided by © Laura Strickland/MyCuteGraphics.com. Bird Bucks created by Jaclyn Seiders.

This group project has students build numbers with manipulatives and then write the 3 forms of the number: word form, standard form, and expanded form. Students then walk around to the other groups and record the numbers they have built. Extension activities allow for numbers to be sorted least to greatest and to be used in writing inequalities. Directions and recording chart included. Pictures provided by © Laura Strickland/MyCuteGraphics.com, activity created by Jaclyn Seiders.