Master Mathematics

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article explaining the basic use of Algebra and an attempt at answering the questions, "Why Learn Algebra?" The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers or reading minutes. This resource is a great opportunity for

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article about Amelia Earhart's life and her accomplishments. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. I have also included a worksheet on identifying text features in a news article. I have also included a worksheet about the four parts of STEM and students answer a question re

This Kagan Strategy resource is a great activity for work with story problems. On one side of the card there is a key math term and the other side indicates the operation that would go with the key word. Students walk around the classroom and meet with other students quizzing each other. Formats: There is a Microsoft Word Document available for edit. There is also a PDF file included.

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article about reasons math is important in our everyday lives. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. I have also included a worksheet on identifying text features in a news article. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers or reading minutes. Thi

This activity is used for quiz, quiz, trade as a whole group activity. Each student is given a card and then meets up with another student. Each student answers their partner's card and then they trade. Students keep moving throughout the allotted time. I usually give the class 5-10 minutes depending on their understanding of the concept at the time. This activity may also be used for small groups or centers as well. Formats: A Microsoft Word Document is available to edit. There is a PDF fil

This is a cooperative learning activity to practice multiplying and dividing integers. Each student in class receives one card and walks around the classroom meeting up with another student. Each student answers each other's problem, then trade cards to meet up with another student. The teacher should give the class 5-10 minutes depending on the students' understanding of this concept. This activity may also be used for a small group or math center. Formats: A Microsoft Word Document is availab

This activity is designed to give students practice converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions. There are 36 questions included for students practice. This can be used as a quiz, quiz, trade or as task cards. This is a great KAGAN Structure used for cooperative learning. Quiz, quiz, trade is a student favorite! Formats: There is a Microsoft Word Document available to edit. There is also a PDF file available.

This product was designed with Building Thinking Classrooms in mind. These two tasks are designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a higher order thinking lesson on ratio and proportion or a multi-step problem. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Baked Goods--Students are given data which includes how many boxes needed per baked good. Rebecca's Fruit Punch--Students are given data which includes

This resource includes a novel study for Took: A Ghost Story. This novel is appropriate for upper elementary students and middle school students who enjoy a great mystery! this resource includes 2-3 questions for each chapter and another skill that I have varied with vocabulary, interview questions, similes, etc. The questions are mainly open-ended and designed to promote great discussion in the classroom. I have also included a text-to-text comparison with Hansel and Gretel. I could not be

This resource includes an article with questions for students to answer. This resource includes an article about Major League Baseball and the science and the mathematics and statistics behind it. The activity also includes an author's purpose template for students to fill out as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers or reading minutes. This resource is a great opportunity for students to connect reading to mathematics learning. Formats: There is a

This activity is a template for the Mountain Math Grade 6 program. I have created more space for students' work. I have also changed some of the questions to make it faster for students to use for a warm-up activity. Students do 3-5 questions per day based on allotted time in the classroom. I use this for 7th graders at the beginning of the year to review 6th grade. Formats: A Microsoft Word Document that is editable and a PDF file are included.

This product was designed with Building Thinking Classrooms in mind. These two tasks are designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a lesson on converting between word form, expanded form and standard form. Students are encouraged to write numbers in as many forms as they can think of. The lesson starts with answers with answers and ends with two open ended answers. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Tic

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes five online news articles with questions. The five women included in this resource are Amelia Earhart, Edith Clarke, Katherine Johnson, Mae Jemison and Sally Ride. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. I have also included a worksheet on identifying text features in a news articl

This mathematics article describes a study about the math behind the perfect free throw. Students are asked to read the article, answer questions and complete an author's purpose template about the article. This is a great opportunity for students to connect reading strategies to mathematics. This could be used for a warm-up, math center, substitute plans or reading minute. Formats: There is a Microsoft Word Document available for edit. There is also a PDF file included.

This resource includes an article about the life of Benjamin Banneker. He was an African American mathematician and astronomer. This resource includes a page of questions for students to answer and a worksheet on author's purpose to complete while reading the article. This activity could be used as a warm-up, exit ticket, substitute plan or for incorporating reading and writing into a mathematics or science lesson. This activity would be great for Black History Month. Formats: There is a Mic

This resource includes an article regarding Christa McAuliffe Day which is celebrated on January 28. It includes activities for students to do while reading the articles. The teacher will decide which activity best suits the students for the article. This resource includes: 1.) An article and/or website for students to read. 2.) Five questions for students to answer based on the article. 3.) An author's purpose template for students to decide if sections of the article were written to inform,

This resource includes an article with questions for students to answer. The activity also includes an author's purpose template for students to fill out as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers or reading minutes. This resource is a great opportunity for students to connect reading to mathematics learning. Formats: There is a Microsoft Word Document available for edit. There is also a PDF file included.

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article about Katherine Johnson's life and her accomplishments. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. I have also included a worksheet on identifying text features in a news article. I have also included a worksheet about the four parts of STEM and students answer a question

This resource includes articles about National Compliment Day which is celebrated on January 24. It includes activities for students to do while reading the articles. The teacher will decide which activity best suits the students for the article. This resource includes: 1.) An article and/or website for students to read. 2.) Five questions for students to answer based on the article. 3.) An author's purpose template for students to decide if sections of the article were written to inform, des

This resource is a great graphing organizer for an interactive notebook. This resource guides students through the algorithms of multiplying and dividing fractions and mixed numbers.