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Are you looking for a way to help your students practice adding or multiplying with decimals 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 adding and multiplying with decimals (5.NBT.B.7)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

Classroom transformations make learning engaging and memorable. Get your students excited about math with the Gingerbread Fixer Upper budgeting activity. Select your grade level and give your students a project based learning experience. Can they stay within budget and use their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills to transform the Gingy's home into the gingerbread house of their dreams? The classroom transformation kit includes table numbers, tickets, and everything you need to make

How does the weight of matter change when it is combined? Mix up some gingerbread to explore. Begin by observing an anchoring phenomenon: ice melting and a snowflake forming. Students will then investigate matter, mass, mixtures vs. solutions, physical and chemical changes by mixing together separate ingredients to make gingerbread. As a class, they will weigh each ingredient individually and find the total sum weight of the ingredients. Then, after combining the ingredients into a mixture, they

Have you ever noticed that MOST snowflakes have six sides? My students did too and wanted to investigate why. In this activity, you and your students will observe the same anchoring phenomenon as my students. As they watch snowflakes form, they will make observations in their observe, think and wonder chart. Then, they will read an informational passage about the reasoning behind why snowflakes form in this way. They will answer comprehension questions focused on content specific vocabulary and

Are you looking for a relevant way for your students to practice division through distance learning? In the midst of school closures around the world, many people watched as Americans panic bought toilet paper leaving store shelves closed. Whether it is a virus, hurricane, or winter storm that threatens to cut off resources to individuals, knowing what you need and how much are all related to math. Or, perhaps our students will just need to know how to determine which brand is the best to buy. H

This bundle includes the Thanksgiving Narrative writing as well as the Editable Thanksgiving Turkey Math Practice. Bring in holiday fun to writing and math practice this November. The Turkey Narrative has a been a real winner in my classroom. Students develop a plot and character through this multi-day writing activity. Extend the turkey festivities into other areas such as math with the editable turkey craftivity. You decide the content and students will practice skills while putting togethe

Deciding which operation to use in a word problem can be a challenge. It's not just about tuning into KEY words, but also being able to understand the context of the problem. In this editable activity, you and your students can examine math operation words that YOU are encountering in your learning. Whereas this master was made for fifth grade with fraction problems in mind, it works for any grade level. Just edit it to meet your needs. Included is: -Editable student direction slide. -Editable

Conducting research to help close gaps in student performance, I read a great deal of research on how to best teach word problems with my students. The research showed that explicitly teaching word problem types and the drawings that accompany them, in addition to teaching reading skills with story problems are better at increasing student performance on word problems than teaching keyword identification. These numberless word problems focus your students on the task of identifying the various

Are you using STEM in your classroom? Do have some amazing ideas, but want your students to focus on the engineering and design process while doing so? These STEM Think Sheets follow the engineering and design process and walk your students through a more reflective process while they are doing STEM activities in class. There are three versions (without lines, with lines, with smaller lines) that can be used for ANY STEM activity in your classroom. Help your students think like engineers as they

Wanting to increase math discussion in your classroom? Whether working in whole group, small group, or individually, asking challenging questions that encourage our students to struggle and explain their thinking will improve their math reasoning skills and competency in math discourse. These 28 cards can be used as you facilitate discussion, either from you or by distributing the cards to students so they can ask questions of their peers about their work. You can also hand them out to small gr