Master Mathematics

This pre-algebra assessment could be used for a pre-test for the first chapter or could be used as pre-test for Pre-Algebra. This assessment includes basic pre-algebra concepts such as; integers, evaluating expressions and graphing coordinates. It includes a constructed response question about temperature at the end.

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 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. This resource was designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a lesson on introducing or developing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of integers. The lesson begins with rote integer operations and ends with a word problems and and open ended discussion problem. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Thin slicing: C

This activity has 40 one-step equations for students to solve. This activity includes one- step equations of all four operations. This activity is great for students to practice once they have had a lesson on solving all four operations. This would also be great for students to use as flash cards or at a math center. This KAGAN strategy is a student favorite! 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 activity is designed to give students practice naming the algebra properties. The properties assessed in this activity are commutative, distributive, associative, identity, inverse and property of zero. This is a great Kagan Structure used for cooperative learning. Formats: There is a Microsoft Word Document available for edit. There is also a PDF file included.

This is an activity to practice multiplying rational numbers. The cards may be used for quiz, quiz, trade or task cards. This activity is great for collaboration. There are 32 problems available and a worksheet for the students to record their answers. The answer key is also included. Formats: A Microsoft Word Document is available to edit. There is a PDF file available as well.

This product was designed with Building Thinking Classrooms in mind. This resource was designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a lesson on introducing or developing evaluating algebraic expressions. The lesson begins with evaluating algebraic expressions and ends with a word problem and an open ended problem for students to write about what they have learned. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket.

This resource is great for an exit slip or warm-up. There is one constructed response problem for each day of the week. The topics included in this resource are calculate unit rates, simplifying complex fractions and converting rates. This resource would also be great to use for a constructed response and practice justifying answers. I have also included a worksheet for students with tips on helping them justify their answers more effectively. This resource was designed to encourage my students

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article about the order of operations, how it works and the importance of conventions. 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 an exit ticket with 6 problems practicing simplify

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 square root, cube root or a multi-step problem. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Square Root Clock--Students simplify each hour and see if the clock would work. Square Root and Cube Root--Students will estimate square roots and sol

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.

This resource is great for an interactive notebook. This resource guides students through the process of dividing fractions and mixed numbers. Formats: A Microsoft Word Document that is editable and a PDF file are included.

This resource is great for an exit slip or warm-up. There is a week's worth of examples to use with students. This resource is great for exponent and order of operations topic. This resource would also be great to use for a constructed response. This resource was designed to encourage my students to work harder at answering MSTEP and NWEA style questions and to justify their answers. Formats: There is a Microsoft Word Document available for edit. There is also a PDF file included.

This resource includes a worksheet for students to calculate the weight on Mars of animals and objects. The worksheet also includes problems for students to calculate the weight of a laptop on the other planets, sun and the moon. This resource was designed for a lesson on Multiplying Fractions. This resource includes a worksheet for students to order rational numbers based on temperatures a satellite has taken from space.

This resource is for students to practice Adding Integers. Students will practice 30 problems on this concept. As students correctly respond to the problems, the pixel art will appear. This is a high engagement activity! It is easily compatible for Google Classroom. Teachers should "Make a Copy" for each student when assigning it in Google Classroom.

This product was designed with Building Thinking Classrooms in mind. This resource was designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a lesson on introducing or developing subtraction of integers. The lesson begins with subtracting integers and ends with a story problems and subtracting more than two integers. There are also two evaluating expression problems. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Thin s