Master Mathematics

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. The resources included could be used for a lesson on introducing or developing middle school math concepts. These resources would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Thin slicing: Copy the problems and answers back to back and cut to create the slices or use them as task cards. The problems increase

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 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 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

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 numerical expressions. This would be a great resource for an assessment for order of operations. The lesson begins with evaluating numerical expressions and ends with a word problem and an open ended problem for students to write about what they have learned. Thi

This activity includes 30 percent of change quiz, quiz, trade cards. There are percent of increase, percent of decrease and percent of error problems included. I have also included an answer sheet for students to show their work if needed. I have also included an interactive notebook page with the examples I used in my class. I have also included the worksheet I used for a guessing activity to practice percent error. The students really enjoyed all of the activities! This KAGAN strategy is a

This is a set of task cards for adding and subtracting unlike fractions. There is no mixed numbers in this task card set. There are negative and positive fraction examples. A Microsoft Word Document that is editable and a PDF file are included.

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 of integers. The lesson begins with adding integers and ends with a story problems and adding more than two integers. There are also one evaluating expression problems. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Thin slicing: Co