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Hi! I'm Angela, a STEM teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. I've been teaching for 20 years and love making useful, intentional STEM, technology and math resources to help make your life easier as a teacher!
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Preview of Solving Unit Rate Problems Boom Cards

Solving Unit Rate Problems Boom Cards

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Engage your 6th graders with this interactive deck of 20 Unit Rate Boom Cards designed to build confidence and fluency with real-world ratio and rate problems! Students will practice finding unit rates in a variety of contexts, such as: - Miles per hour (speed and distance word problems) - Cost per item (shopping and budgeting situations) - Pages per minute/hour (reading and work-rate problems) - Cups per recipe/item (cooking and baking scenarios) - Miles per gallon, ounces per dollar, and more
Preview of Identify Equivalent Ratios Boom Cards

Identify Equivalent Ratios Boom Cards

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Engaging, self-checking digital task cards on Boom Learning that reinforce the skill of identifying equivalent ratios. Features: - Auto-graded, immediate feedback; unlimited practice attempts. Learning Targets:- Identify equivalent ratios - Choose equivalent ratios from a set - Complete a blank in a ratio equivalency problem Teacher notesNo printing required. Boom cards require a Boom Learning account (free preview available). Works on computers, tablets, and interactive whiteboards.About Boom
Preview of Ratio Concepts to Solve Problems Boom Cards Bundle

Ratio Concepts to Solve Problems Boom Cards Bundle

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A comprehensive, self-checking bundle of 9 Boom Learning decks covering every component of “Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.” Scaffolded practice, instant feedback, auto-grading, and actionable reports. Boom Cards are ideal for lessons, homework, warm-ups, quick assessments, or review—use the memorization deck to prepare learners before tackling calculation-focused decks for greater speed and accuracy. About Boom Cards:To use Boom Cards, you must be connected
Preview of Calculating Percents Boom Cards

Calculating Percents Boom Cards

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A self-checking deck of 20 interactive Boom Cards that build mastery with percent as a rate per 100. Students find a percent of a quantity and solve for the whole, given a part and a percent, including real-world contexts like discounts, taxes, tips, increases/decreases, and simple interest. Skills Covered:- Interpret percent as per 100 - Find a percent of a quantity (e.g., 25% of 60) - Find the whole when given a part and percent (e.g., 40% is 32 → whole = 80) - Apply percent to real-life conte
Preview of Equivalent Ratios on Coordinate Planes Boom Cards

Equivalent Ratios on Coordinate Planes Boom Cards

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Engaging, self-checking digital task cards on Boom Learning that guide students to create tables of equivalent ratios, find missing values, plot ordered pairs on a coordinate plane, and use tables to compare ratios. Features: - Auto-graded, immediate feedback; unlimited practice attempts. - Interactive inputs: number entry, drag-and-drop point plotting, multiple-choice comparisons. - Scaffolding: starts with simple ratios, progresses to multi-step and comparison tasks. - Real-world contexts (rec
Preview of Finding Unit Rate Boom Cards

Finding Unit Rate Boom Cards

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Engage your 6th graders with this interactive deck of 25 Unit Rate Boom Cards designed to build confidence and fluency with real-world ratio and rate problems! Students will practice finding unit rates in a variety of contexts, such as: - Miles per hour (speed and distance word problems) - Cost per item (shopping and budgeting situations) - Pages per minute/hour (reading and work-rate problems) - Cups per recipe/item (cooking and baking scenarios) - Miles per gallon, ounces per dollar, and more
Preview of Understanding Basic Ratios Boom Cards

Understanding Basic Ratios Boom Cards

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Help students develop a foundational sense of ratios with this ready‑to‑assign deck. The set begins with two concise review pages that model key concepts and notation, then offers 23 interactive, self‑checking practice cards. Students count objects in images and read data from charts to determine part‑to‑part and part‑to‑whole ratios, and practice writing ratios three ways: using a colon (a:b), the word “to” (a to b), and as a fraction. Instant feedback supports independent learning while Boom
Preview of Understanding Equivalent Ratios Boom Cards

Understanding Equivalent Ratios Boom Cards

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Build students’ fluency with equivalent ratios using 20 ready‑to‑assign Boom Cards. This set includes varied item types—complete ratio tables, find-the-missing-number, determine whether two ratios are equivalent, choose the missing value in equivalent ratios, and select all equivalent ratios from a group. Self‑checking cards provide immediate feedback and Boom Learning records student progress and scores for easy tracking. Low prep and classroom‑ready for whole‑class, small‑group, or independent
Preview of Multiply with Fractions Real World Word Problems Boom Cards

Multiply with Fractions Real World Word Problems Boom Cards

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Build student fluency multiplying fractions with 12 ready‑to‑assign Boom Cards featuring realistic, everyday word problems. Cards mix answer formats (fill‑in‑the‑blank and multiple choice) and two task focuses: solve the problem or select the correct equation that models it. Self‑correcting cards give immediate feedback to students while Boom Learning records scores and progress for easy teacher tracking. Low prep and highly engaging—great for whole‑class digital practice, centers, interventions
Preview of Fraction Line Plots Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

Fraction Line Plots Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

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Fraction line plots take practice. This teacher's toolkit includes guided notes, practice, a choice board, a center, task cards, and assessment. These resources provide you with extra practice and other tools for your students as you teach them to understand data concepts related to fraction line plots. Students will make and interpret line plots by using the information provided on each activity or gathering their own data. Teacher toolkits provide a great foundation for teaching math standards
Preview of Multiplication as Scaling Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Assessment

Multiplication as Scaling Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Assessment

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This multiplication as scaling teacher's toolkit includes guided notes, practice, a choice board, a center, and assessment. These resources provide you with extra practice and other tools for your students as you teach them to understand multiplication as resizing. Students will compare the size of products to various factors without resizing in a variety of problem types. Teacher toolkits provide a great foundation for teaching math standards or can be used to supplement your current math curri
Preview of Divide Unit Fractions Unit  - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

Divide Unit Fractions Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

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This dividing unit fractions teacher's toolkit includes guided notes, practice, centers, and assessment to provide you with extra practice and other tools for your students when you are teaching them to divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions. Teacher toolkits provide a great foundation for teaching math standards or can be used to supplement your current math curriculum. Common Core Standard:This product addresses the following standard: CCSS.MATH.5.NF.B.7 App
Preview of Multiply Fractions Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

Multiply Fractions Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

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Multiplying fractions by whole numbers and multiplying fractions by fractions takes lots of practice. This teacher's toolkit includes helpful activities to provide you with extra practice and other tools for your students when you are teaching them to multiply with fractions. Teacher toolkits provide a great foundation for teaching math standards or can be used to supplement your current math curriculum. Common Core Standard:This product addresses the following standard: 5.NF.B.4- Apply and exte
Preview of Fractions as Division Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

Fractions as Division Unit - 5th grade - Notes, Activities, Centers, Assessment

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Interpreting fractions as division is a key skill towards fraction understanding for students. Students need to interpret a fraction as a division problem and a division problem as a fraction. This math teacher's toolkit will provide you with everything you need to prepare your students to understand these essential math skills. It works great as a stand-alone resource or to use to supplement your current math curriculum! Common Core Standard:This product fully addresses the following standard:
Preview of Place Value Fractions Boom Cards

Place Value Fractions Boom Cards

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Place Value Fractions Boom Cards help students find equivalent decimals for fractions with denominators of 10, 100, or 1000. Students will also find equivalent fractions for decimals up to the thousands place. Recognizing the equivalency between fractions and decimals helps to secure students' place value understanding within the base ten number system. It is also a useful skill when adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals with a variety of strategies. ☀️ What's Included:40 Boom Learning C
Preview of Math Centers for Upper Elementary - Self-Checking Domino Games

Math Centers for Upper Elementary - Self-Checking Domino Games

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Do you need a quick and engaging activity to add to your math centers? Students love self-checking dominoes. Help your students practice math topics independently and provide differentiation at the same time! This growing bundle currently has 9 sets of math practice topics, with more to come soon! Buy the bundle and save 20% over buying each resource individually! Buy now and receive all future sets at no additional cost! ☀️ Included Dominoes Sets• Add and Subtract Decimals Dominoes• Add and
Preview of Fraction Line Plots - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

Fraction Line Plots - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

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Fraction line plots can be tricky, but many fourth grade and fifth grade students just need more practice with fraction line plots. Students will interpret line plots with fraction addition and subtraction to improve their data analysis math skills using this set of Boom Cards. This product contains 20 interactive, online Boom Learning card. In this set, students will interpret the data represented in five different fraction line plots using data analysis and fraction addition and subtraction
Preview of Divide Whole Numbers by Unit Fractions - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

Divide Whole Numbers by Unit Fractions - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

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With this set of 20 online, interactive Boom Learning cards, students will practice dividing whole numbers by unit fractions. *Note: unit fractions have the number 1 as the numerator. Question Types Included:- Identify the equation that matches the model. (3 cards) - Identify the equation that matches the number line. (3 cards) - Use the model to solve the problem - fill in the blank (3 cards) - Use the number line to solve the problem - fill in the blank (3 cards) - Solve the problem (no model
Preview of Divide Unit Fractions by Whole Numbers - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

Divide Unit Fractions by Whole Numbers - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

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With this set of 22 interactive, online Boom Learning cards, students will practice dividing unit fractions by whole numbers. *Note: unit fractions have the number 1 as the numerator. Question Types Included:- Identify the equation that matches the model. (3 cards) - Solve the problem for the model and expression given. (4 cards) - Solve the problem (no model shown) - multiple choice answers (7 cards) - Solve the problem (no model shown) - fill-in-the-blank answers (8 cards) About Boom CardsTir
Preview of Multiply Fractions - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

Multiply Fractions - Boom Cards | Distance Learning

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With this set of 20 cards, students will practice multiplying fractions and simplifying the answers when needed. Question Types Included: - 10 multiple choice - answers are fractions or whole numbers, some require putting the answer in lowest terms - 10 fill in the blank - all answers are written as mixed numbers; in some cases, students will need to simplify to a mixed number and still reduce the fraction portion About Boom CardsTired of printing, laminating, and cutting task cards? Looking for
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Hi! I'm Angela, a STEM teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. I've been teaching for 20 years and love making useful, intentional STEM, technology and math resources to help make your life easier as a teacher!

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As a STEM teacher, it's all about problem-solving and teamwork.

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I received a Bachelors Degree from the University of Nevada, Reno in Human Development and Family Studies. I also received my teaching certificate from UNR. I have my Masters Degree in Educational Technology from Lesley University.

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I'm the mother of a high schooler and my husband is a Physical Education teacher. We love to swim, read, and play games. Our latest passion is taking cruises as a family before my daughter goes off to college!