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.

Need a fun, hands-on activity to introduce the Scientific Method? This activity is just what you need. Kids will love learning what happens to different types of gummy candy that are left in water over 24 hours! Use this experiment to meaningfully go through the steps of the scientific method. This pack includes step by step instructions for the experiment, recording pages for students, pre/post test, extension activity ideas, and word wall cards. Great way to integrate science and math as stude

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as fraction 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 identifying fractions of a shaded region, benchmark fractions, equivalent fractions. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

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

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.

This pack includes everything you need to help your students become more fluent at their basic multiplication facts, practice larger problems (up to 2 digit by 2 digit), and develop higher order thinking skills with word problems and performance tasks. Games such as bingo, I have-Who has, and Multiplication War will make learning facts fun. Also included are 30 problem timed quizzes organized by fact family (0-12's) plus 4 quizzes which are mixed fact families. Students can track their progress

This pack includes what you need to practice and reinforce perimeter and area skills. Included are cards to be used in math centers for students to practice solving various problems, Hands-on activities for constructing shapes, Geoboard questions and record sheets, Problem solving pages, word problems for discovery math/CGI, and a quiz for an assessment of student's understanding. Created by Jaclyn Seiders, NBCT

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as line recognition 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 perpendicular lines, rays, line segments, parallel lines, and lines. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as shape practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The shapes included in this pattern are circle, square, triangle, and rectangle. The pattern also used the primary colors. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as shape practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered with this set include acute triangles, obtuse triangle, right triangles, isosceles triangles, scaled, and equilateral triangles. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

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.

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. This set includes a pattern that grows each time, but also has a secondary pattern of red, black, white. Would make a good starting pattern to teach at the beginning of the year. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

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

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

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as shape practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered with this set include 3D solids such as cube, sphere, square pyramid, cone, and cylinder.

This Fraction Set is perfect for Common Core State Standards for 4th grade fractions. It includes notes for introducing fractions, activities and games for centers which help students practice creating equivalent fractions, reducing fractions, and comparing fractions. Word problems help students develop their understanding of mixed numbers, and Puzzled Penguin pages require students to justify their explanations! There are also several hands-on activities which can be done whole group or in int

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 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.