Learning Out Loud

It's time to build with these hands-on area and perimeter activity mats. Your third and fourth graders will love using blocks to explore and compare area and perimeter in this construction-themed math center or classroom activity. Highly engaging, students will find the length and width of each shape using hands-on materials (one-inch math tiles, one-centimeter math cubes, or digital manipulatives) and compare the measurements. Print and have students tile the quadrilaterals using math man

Are you looking for a way to help your students practice multiplying multidigit numbers that is engaging, creative, and just plain fun? Perfect for December, January, February, or the winter months, this Gingerbread math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice multiplying multidigit numbers.The task:Chocolate Chip and Joanna Gumdrop help gingerbread families fix up their gingerbread houses to be the house they always dreamed of. The Gingy family has asked for the Gumdrops help,

It's CORN! This CORNY math craft is sure to delight your THIRD GRADERS. This fall themed activity for multiplying single digit numbers using arrays is engaging, creative, and just plain fun! Perfect for NOVEMBER, or the fall months, this math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice building arrays for multiplication expressions, breaking apart arrays and writing matching expressions, and finding the product of the array.The task:Students build an array, write the matching expr

As a fifth grade teacher, I am constantly creating math resources for my students. I want to find was to engage them, activate their understanding, and challenge them. My passion is word problems, but I know that my students also need practice on problems in isolation. This bundle is a place where ALL my fifth grade math resources, reside. It includes some STEM activities in addition to other math material including my BOTLEY Multiplication rescue and my Using Scratch to Explain Concepts. If you

Whether for distance learning due to school closures or creative digital learning opportunities for your students, these virtual field trips will take your students to the heart of the action of the American Revolution. This sample field trip takes you and your students to the site of the Boston Massacre. Interactive links allow your students to stand in front of the State House in Boston, immortalized by Henry Pelham's painting later turned political propaganda by Paul Revere. Your historians w

Giving your students practice in finding the perimeter of polygons using the metric system has never been easier with this print and digital task cards for use in Google Slides. Whether you limiting the use of paper in your classroom or promoting distance learning at home, you will find these task cards easy to use. Not only do the slides offer an opportunity for your students to self-grade their task cards, they have a variety of opportunities to record their answers with a traditional pape

This Google Sheets resource is the perfect resource for  4.NBT.5 (multi digit multiplication using 2 digit factors)! Assigned digitally in Google Classroom! The resource is a SELF CHECKING GAME in Google Sheets that can be played by students either sharing a device, or sharing the sheet. Digital Version Includes:10 problems in an easy-to-assign Google Sheet fileSelf-checking problems through color coded cells and mystery pixel picture revealYou will need:The file is in PDF format and includes a

Are you looking for a way to encourage students to review their notes and solidify concepts in your Math Expressions program? This interactive notebook includes pages to engage your students in note taking tasks while teaching your curriculum. My students enjoy cutting, pasting, and using the tools to help them in their classroom practice and homework practice. They use their notes more when they interactive and engaging, and concepts have been more clear since I have been using them. Include

This Google Slides resource is the perfect resource for 3 .NBF.1 (fractions as unit fractions - one part of a whole)! Assigned digitally in Google Classroom, this ENGAGING resource allows students to physically manipulate and build pizza slices for each unique customer order. Young mathematicians will reflect on how the size of the denominator impacts the size of the pieces that make up the whole. Digital Version Includes:7 problems in an easy-to-assign Google Slide fileBIG IDEA slice recognizin

Area word problems can be tricky for students. The BEST way to help your students recognize these problem types is by giving them a variety of situations and practice to help them grow confident in solving them. With each correct answer, answer boxes will turn green and reveal the DRAGON MYSTERY picture. This 12 questions mystery picture is:SELF grading providing IMMEDIATE feedback to your studentsREADY TO GO and EASY for you to assign in your GOOGLE CLASSROOMEASY to grade as incomplete or wron

Do your students struggle with word problems? Are you at a loss about how to improve their word problem accuracy? If your students are like mine, there are a small cohort who are on level readers, but who still struggle with a concept when it is presented in word problem form. I have done extensive research on word problems and it is my passion to make them understandable, and fearless for my students. Recognizing word problem types is ESSENTIAL to helping our fifth graders feel confident when s