Math Creation Station

This Choice Board Activity provides you with a fun and engaging way to review concepts from these two ratio and proportion Common Core Standards. It comes with one "on grade level" Choice Board and Answer Key, one "modified" Choice Board with an Answer Key, and one Recording Sheet. Students can either work alone or in partners to complete one activity/problem from each row. The answer keys can be covered with small sticky notes to make this self-correcting. Students LOVE to have choices and

This problem set is based on the problem types outlined for grade three in the Common Core Standards. They involve Equal Groups and Arrays/Area with varied unknowns (Unknown Product and Group Size Unknown). The workspace provided for students also emphasizes the importance of using a variety of representations. They include a mix of: “groups of” pictures, arrays, t-tables, equations and solution sentences relating back to the story. The ten problems can either be used with all students, in t

This set of lessons/activities should be used during the first week of a multiplying fractions unit in grade 5. It focuses on both the content standards and math practice standards appropriate for this unit. Using the Area Model (Math Practice 4) Connections to Whole Number Operations and the Commutative Property (Math Practice 7) Story Problems (Math Practice 1 & 2) Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Practice (5.NF.1 & 2) Lesson #1 - Students will consider a series of story problems

This series of three activities help students to both contextualize and decontexualize (Math Practice #2) while writing ratios and ratio relationships. Precise vocabulary (Math Practice #6) such as part:part and part:total can be layered into this activity as well. These sheets can be used as partner work, individual practice or formative assessment purposes. Answer keys/examples are provided for each.

This set includes a series of story problems where students are presented with information in a table format. They must use this data to answer problems that require addition and subtraction of fractions in one and two steps. There is also a Looking at Student Work task embedded where students will use the “My Favorite No” protocol. They first look at the work and determine what the student did well, making it the teacher’s “favorite” no. They then determine where the student’s thinking went

This set of activities includes large analogous problems that align with the CCSS and are derived from the chart on p.88 in the standards book. The story problem sheets all include a series of icons that match the large story problems so that students can first identify the analogous (similar) problem, as well as the operation, before solving. We know that this ability to recognize similar/analogous problems is such an important part of Math Practice #1, and the set-up of these sheets allows f