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Want a convenient way to encourage deep thinking as per Common Core as well as some engaging math activities? The 20 area and perimeter task cards use real life problems about rectangles. If you are looking for digital area and perimeter virtual manipulatives to help you teach remotely, click here. How can I use this product?The cards can be used as a math center. I have used these as prompts for their math journal or in a Scoot game. Students can do two a day for a whole week. How is this p

Using the three square paper rectangle, students fold and bend (along the creases) to match the puzzle shapes. Great for growth mindset, introducing polygons, and a no-tech puzzle for family math night or for a quick math center for early finishers. Note: The Preview shows most of this fun resource! How can I use this product?This can be a fun whole class activity, either on your shared screen or printed. But I also include instructions for self-guided center. Would be an awesome Family Math Nig

** Adapted from my Best Seller ** Want a convenient way to encourage deep thinking and learn essential applicable area skills? The 12 area and perimeter task cards use real life problems. Please note that all questions are about rectangles. The questions are exactly the same as my Area and Perimeter Best Seller, only with metric measurements. How can I use this product?The cards can be used as a math center. I have used these as prompts for their math journal or in a Scoot game. Students can do

A collection of ready to go, engaging, and classroom tested pattern activities and worksheets that help build a strong math foundation by recognizing and understanding the purpose and power of patterns. Perfect for math stations and centers. Different levels of activities to handle a variety of math learners. Most are hands-on! How can I use this product?The collection includes activities to introduce, reinforce, or review patterns in a whole class setting, small groups through centers, as well

This game teaches or reinforces multiplication arrays. Players take turns rolling the two dice and then coloring on the grid. The last person to fit their array on wins. The file has complete instructions, one variation, plus a grid to print out. Do you have other products that are related? Please check out all my multiplication activities! Is this available in a bundle? This activity is bundled with Ten Best Selling Multiplication Products for a 20% savings. Common Core Standards: 3.MD.5:

This is a fun and engaging activity that has students figuring out how many police officers to secure the perimeter and cover the area of different bank floor plans. Each bank also has different amounts of money in the vault that they need to secure. The students read a page of the procedure manual and then practice using different floor plans. They record the answers in a police log book. My students love this math center! There are mini-police officers if they want to actually place them aroun

These 30 shape (2D to 3D) think sheets (worksheets) can be used to reinforce, review, and challenge fraction knowledge. The collection progresses from basics like squares and other quadrilaterals to challenging decagons and triangular prisms. The sheets review the following: 2D Shapes - quadrilaterals (squares, rectangles, parallelograms, rhombi, trapezoids, kites), circle, triangles (right, equilateral, isosceles/obtuse, scalene obtuse), regular polygons (pentagon, hexagon, heptagon), irregular

This is a fun and engaging activity that has students measuring the lengths and dimensions of snacks to see if the "snacks" pass inspection and can be put in the snack bag. Students choose from the snacks, measure them with a broken ruler, then record the results on their log. There are three ways to differentiate it. The inspection sheets are for greater than 2 inches, between 1 and 2 inches, or less than 1 inch. Also the snacks come in various sizes: to whole inches, to 1/2 inches, and to 1/4

This is an area activity that students immediately relate to. How many people can they invite to a slumber party, determined by the amount of floor space and the size of a sleeping bag? Using four different scenarios (increasing in complexity), the students will use grids and scaled down sleeping bags to help figure out the answer. This activity goes beyond figuring out area based on squares, to real life situations using rectangular sleeping bags. My students love this math center! Note: T

You are the boss of Ms. Terra Cotta Tile Company and your students are your designers. You assign each student one of 24 clients and your designers need to make draft designs, order samples from the warehouse, and create the final design and bid. The final design can be made with 1 inch construction squares (you cut). This activity goes beyond figuring out area based on squares, to real life situations using a tile project. My students love this activity. 12/20: Now updated to include a dista

Want a convenient way to encourage deep thinking as per Common Core? The 20 task cards use real life perimeter rectangle problems. Updated with eight more tasks! How can I use this product?The cards can be used as a math center. I have used these as prompts for their math journal. Students can do two a day for a whole week. Uses both US and Metric measurements. What is included?1 pdf file with 16 pages * 3 pages of cover/copyright info * 5 pages with four tasks on each page (landscape) * 1 page

This is a fun and engaging activity that has students measuring the lengths and dimensions of snacks to see if the "snacks" pass inspection and can be put in the snack bag. Students choose from the snacks, measure them with a broken ruler, then record the results on their log. There are three ways to differentiate it. The inspection sheets are for greater than 5 centimeters, between 3 and 5 centimeters, or less than 3 centimeters. Also the snacks come in various sizes. And finally the broken rul

This set of number puzzle cards will help your students practice figuring out area and perimeter. They will also need to use algebraic thinking to solve . These cards progress from easier (with grids) to more difficult (rectangular shapes w/o grids). Perfect for distance learning and Google Classrooms. If you are looking for an interactive digital teacher tool to help you teach area and perimeter virtually, click here. How can I use this product?As a math center, you can have these available

Fifty four simple printable cards of geometry terms for a fun class game for review. Just print, cut, and play! There are six blank cards for you to add other terms. Terms included: 180°, 360°, 45°, 90°, Acute angle, Angle, Area, Centimeter, Circumference, Compass, Congruent, Cube, Cylinder, Diameter, Equiangular triangle, Equilateral triangle, Hexagon, Inch Intersection, Isosceles triangle, Line Segment, Lines, Meter, Obtuse angle, Octagon, Parallel, Parallelogram, Pentagon, Perimeter, Perp

This set of 24 tasks cards reinforce area, perimeter, as well as multiples and factors by asking questions like "If my area is 24 square units, what are all my possible perimeters?" Task cards start easier and work to trickier questions so great for differentiation. How can I use this product?I have used task cards as a math center, journal prompts, whole class Scoot game, class discussions, or even assessments. But warning, the advanced task cards require some major perseverance so I wouldn’t r

You are the boss of Ms. Terra Cotta Tile Company and your students are your designers. You assign each student one of 24 clients and your designers need to make draft designs, order samples from the warehouse, and create the final design and bid. This activity goes beyond figuring out area based on squares, to real life situations using a tile project. My students love this activity. 12/20: Now updated to include a distance learning version for PowerPoint or Google. The Preview Video shows ho

These are the exact same as my best-selling task cards only a Google version. The 20 area and perimeter task cards use real life problems about rectangles. Perfect for distance learning or a Google classroom. If you are looking for an interactive teacher tool to help you teach area and perimeter virtually, click here. Example task: A rectangular dining room has a perimeter of 44 feet and the walls are ten feet high. A gallon of paint covers about 350 square feet. What are the possible length

32 Real Life Photos of Time Cards - This set of shape photo cards give your students more experience viewing and solving time problems using real life photos. Perfect for CC standard 3.MD.1. These are also good for any real-life math problems solving. How can I use this product?Printed in full color, this set of task cards can be used for a math center for students to solve real-life problems. I have used these as prompts for their math journal. You can also display as a slide show or presenta

This is the exact same as my best-selling task cards only a Google version. This is an area activity that students immediately relate to. How many people can they invite to a slumber party, determined by the amount of floor space and the size of a sleeping bag? Using four different scenarios (increasing in complexity), the students will use grids and scaled down sleeping bags to help figure out the answer. This activity goes beyond figuring out area based on squares, to real life situations usi

Want a convenient way to encourage deep thinking while learning essential perimeter life skills? The 20 task cards use real life perimeter problems. These questions are the same as my other set of perimeter tasks cards, only using metric measurement. How can I use this product?The cards can be used as a math center. I have used these as prompts for their math journal. Students can do two a day for a whole week. Uses just metric measurements. What is included?1 pdf file with 16 pages * 3 pages of