Magical Mindsets

Use these three problems as an exit ticket or formative assessment or simply as an activity in centers or when you have an unexpected day of online learning or a substitute. Although these are 5th grade standards, this could be used for extension or intervention with the 4th or 6th grade. Note: Consider teaching students how to take a screen shot of their notebook OR an online modeling platform and how to insert it on a slide BEFORE using this assignment.

Ever needed a quick activity to leave with a sub or did you suddenly have an online learning day you had not planned for? Here is a quick math activity for 5th or 6th graders.

Need a quick, real world problem to get your students applying multiplying fractions and whole numbers? This activity is for you! Use this to practice application of the skill, review for an assessment, or extend for some students. As with any digital resource that can be loaded on Google Classroom, I find it is important to ask students to add a photo of their work for ease of feedback and grading, but do what works for you! Note: There is no answer key included as some of the questions are op

Having students reason about what type of operation is happening in a story context is often a great way to pull all the skills from a few units together, to review, or even launch some preparation for unpacking story problems.

Use this digital drag and drop volume sort when first making the transition from adding up volume to using the formulas. If students cannot see enough detail on photos to sort, demonstrate how to resize the picture before dragging and dropping. Options for extension: Can students sort the prisms without counting each cube? Or can they sort them when they realize one dimension only? For example, a cube with a width of square units CANNOT go into the Volume of 20 category because 20 isn't a multi