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

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

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