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Are you looking for low prep, highly engaging, and academically relevant interactive math notebook materials for your 5th grade curriculum? This math notes set includes ALL STANDARDS for 5th grade math! This year long bundle is a huge value for any Common Core or Texas TEKS fifth grade math classroom. Each notebook set has three parts:A mini book or flip book Interactive and often reusable practice activitiesTest prep style assessment. How is this bundle different than others available?Includ

Explore the relationship between mixed numbers and improper fractions using pattern blocks and these three specially designed activities: building mixed numbers and improper fractions task cards, fractions on a number line activity sheet, and mixed number and improper fraction word problems. Each activity works with the included Pattern Block Mat and uses pattern block manipulatives to represent wholes, halves, thirds, and sixths. An answer key is included for the word problems. This resource

Use the 32 game cards to create a math center for students to practice identifying decimal numbers written in expanded form and expanded notation using fractions and decimals. The cards also help reinforce and review decimals in word form and place value! The student directions include steps to play three different ways. The numbers used on the cards have been carefully selected to ensure that students are using place value skills and not just “looking at the numerals” to create equivalent ma

Area models using base ten blocks can be used to represent multiplication and division of decimals and whole numbers. Practice the skills required of the Common Core and Texas TEKS math standards to use multiple representations of multiplication and division with this task card set. This set of task cards includes: 20 different base ten model cards to improve student understanding of how place value relates to multiplication and division.Interactive notebook pages to help you introduce area mod

Finding TEKS aligned task cards for your fifth grade math class doesn't have to be hard! This set of editable task cards is created specifically for the TEKS. Careful research has been done to make sure that each task card not only aligns to the Texas TEKS but also is similar to the rigor expected on the STAAR test. Each set includes multiple-choice questions and open-ended questions similar to the new STAAR item types. Approximately 25% of the task cards are new item type styles similar to

Are your students struggling with partial quotients division? This set of task cards provides scaffolded practice for solving 3-digit dividend by 1-digit divisor division problems using partial quotients method. What is included?36 total task cards at 6 levels of difficulty (6 cards at each level)teacher guide to help you get set upa recording sheetan optional game board full answer keysCheck out the preview to see everything!How does it work?Level A includes most of the partial quotient divi

These three different no prep math centers for practicing simplifying fractions are as engaging and fun as they are easy to prepare. All you need to have centers ready for your students are pencils and a few paper clips, and copies of the activities, of course! Spins and SquaresThere are four versions of Spins and Squares, a twist on a capture the box game. Students get to connect points when they correctly simplify a fraction made by spinning a numerator and denominator. Math SearchMath Searc

As teachers, we know how difficult it can be for students to learn how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators. Use this introductory lesson and pattern blocks manipulatives to help students gain confidence! This lesson includes a set of guided task cards to use to introduce the manipulative. Then, with word problems that have been carefully composed to work with this manipulative and mat, you can teach addition and subtraction in real-world context. Also included are twelve

This financial literacy mini unit on balancing budgets includes a reading passage, a foldable concept map for note taking, a balancing budgets math center activity, and a test practice page with standardized test style questions. This unit is designed so that on-level fifth grade students can work on this material independent of the teacher, but will also work great as direct teach and math center material. What's included:Balancing Budgets Reading PassageNotebook Foldable Notes Budget Task

Use this set of 20 real-world word problems about adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators to make an engaging math center for your students! Students need a lot of practice when mastering addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators, so grab this resource. The word problems use both fractions and mixed numbers. Some problems require regrouping. To help keep your students engaged, a game board and a spinner are also included to use with the task cards. A re

These three prime and composite number math centers and games are designed to reinforce prime and composite identification with numbers 1 through 100. A Venn diagramming activity has students sort numbers by properties such as prime and composite and even and odd. A recording sheet with open ended questions is included to push the students to think deeply about the relationship between the numbers’ properties. The second game is a maze that challenges students to move based on whether the num

In this lesson, you will use base ten blocks and models to introduce and practice three alternative division strategies: fair sharing, area model, and partial quotients, as well as a brief introduction into the standard algorithm. This lesson is meant to be done with your students, ideally in small groups, but is also appropriate for whole group direct instruction. You will want to be able to use manipulatives, such as base-10 blocks to model the problems with your students. This notebooking se

Are you ready to teach whole number place value to the billions? With this quick, no-prep interactive math notebook set you can teach TEKS 4.2A and TEKS 4.2B easily. Introduce expanded notation and knowing the relationship between each place value to the left and and right of a digit with a mini book, a partner practice activity, an individual practice activity, and a 5 question formative assessment. This set includes: ► Place value mini book with student instructions ► 9-question place value

Have you heard of numberless word problems? Using numberless word problems is great way to change your students' thinking about problem solving and help them become resilient problem solvers! This set of 10 numberless word problems will help engage your students in mathematical discussion over single-step and two-step whole number multiplication and division problems. Multiplication problems are up to 3-digit by 2-digit and the division problems are up to 4-digit dividends and 2-digit divisor

Practice interpreting multiplication and division word problems with this set of 20 paired task cards. These word problems are written in a purposeful way to teach your students how to differentiate between multiplication or division scenarios. All the questions are with in 4-digit by 1-digit multiplication or 4-digit by 1-digit division. Take a look at the preview to see how the problems are intentional paired with similar scenarios and the same numbers to encourage students to use solid stra

Read, write, and compare decimal place value with this simple and fun game! Students multiply and divide by 10 and 100 to a digit through whole number and decimal place values. Earn points when a "read and compare" card is drawn by having the greatest number! Your students will love the strategy of deciding where to place their digit to maximize their chances of winning! You will love that your students are discovering how multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 moves digits left and right!

Introduce, teach, practice, and assess all tested fifth grade financial literacy TEKS with this complete interactive notebook set! This set covers defining payroll tax, income tax, property tax, and sales tax, gross income and net income, and balancing budgets (TEKS 5.10A, TEKS 5.10B, TEKS 5.10E, and TEKS 5.10F). Included in this set is: A flip book with a section on income, taxes, and budgets"Finding Income" practice that incorporates strip diagrams with decimal addition and subtractionFour

Introduce and practice modeling fraction addition and subtraction with this complete interactive notebook set. The mini book introduces and illustrates using area models, set models, number lines, and strip diagrams or bar models. Also included are two practice activities that will fit perfectly in your students' composition notebooks or math journals. A four question formative assessment in test prep format assesses how your students apply their newly learned skills. Use your lesson time

Classify quadrilaterals using sorting cards and a collection of hierarchy and sets and subsets sorting mats. Cards with geometric figures including squares, rhombuses, rectangles, parallelograms, kites, trapezoids, and other quadrilaterals are used on different presentations of hierarchy and Venn diagram sets and subsets sorting mats. Use these to make posters, display on your projector, or make interactive notebook materials to teach your students about all the classifications of quadrilatera

Compare and order decimals with four unique practice activities. This set has a comparing decimals flip book mini-project, a fun ordering decimals on a number line game called "Monkey in the Middle", a cut and paste ordering decimals activity, and a set of problem solving task cards! Comparing Decimals Flip BooksStudents will compare three sets of decimals using tenths grids, hundredths grids, and number line models. Cut and Paste Ordering DecimalsUse 8 no prep cut and paste ordering decimals