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.

These three problems allow for students to construct their own answer and then justify the solution. The questions are based off facts about the human body system: respiratory, digestive, and circulatory. The math word problems require students to round to the nearest ten, repeated addition or multiplication, and subtraction.

These two activity pages are meant to be used with boxes/bags of conversation hearts. The skills covered include: creating bar graphs, line graphs, line plot, and pictographs; also fractions, fractions on a number line, adding fractions, and probability. A fun way to review skills during a Valentine's Day unit! Graphics provided by © Laura Strickland/MyCuteGraphics.com.

These division cards have a cute ocean theme and cover simple remainders all the way to 4 digit dividends. There are 4 levels of cards with approximately 9 cards for each level. These work great in Math Centers, intervention, or a way to enrich students ready for a greater challenge. If you enjoy these cards, check out my Division Game Pack! Created by Jaclyn Seiders, NBCT.

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.