Math Giraffe

Basic Probability "doodle notes" - When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral brain activity: - new learning - relaxation (less math anxiety) - visual connections - better memory & retention of the content! Students fill in the sheets, answer the questions, and color, doodle or embellish. Then, they can use it as a study guide later on. Content includes: - vocabulary (event, outcom

Trig Ratios and Inverse Trig Ratios: "doodle notes" - When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral brain activity: - new learning - relaxation (less math anxiety) - visual connections - better memory & retention of the content! * This resource is also available as part of a DISCOUNTED bundle: Basic Trig BundleStudents fill in the sheets, answer the questions, and color, doodle or emb

Unit Rates & Unit Prices: "doodle notes" - visual note taking pages with interactive tasks for building stronger retention of unit rate concepts Boost your students' focus and memory! The blend of graphic and linguistic input in these guided visual notes helps students' brains to convert the information to long-term memory more easily. When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral br

Percent Change, Markup, and Discounts: visual interactive "doodle note" page When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral brain activity: - new learning - relaxation (less math anxiety) - visual connections - better memory & retention of the content! Students fill in the sheets, answer the questions, and color, doodle or embellish. Then, they can use it as a study guide later on. Gra

This activity is used to introduce integer addition. The students develop the rules for adding integers for themselves. There are many benefits to using this discovery process in your classroom. Students can become engaged in using their critical thinking skills. Instead of just learning how to apply and use the rules for adding integers, they gain more ownership of the material and are able to understand why the rules work and how they were developed. This activity focuses on adding integ

Reading Skills for Math Class: 1 page visual "doodle note" plus learning stations to practice the new reading skills and strategies! When students color or doodle in math class, it activates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. There are proven benefits of this cross-lateral brain activity: - new learning - relaxation (less math anxiety) - visual connections - better memory & retention of the content! Students fill in the sheets, answer the questions, and color, doodle or embellis

Trigonometric Ratios (Sine, Cosine, Tangent): * This resource is also available as part of a DISCOUNTED bundle: Basic Trig BundleThis is a great activity for practicing using sin, cos, and tan ratios to find missing side lengths and angle measures. Students put together matches from cut up squares. A "match" will contain two triangles that are congruent. This works well as practice, homework, partner work, review, or even as a group quiz. Check out the preview to see how it looks. Try these

Challenging trigonometry practice worksheets with a twist - These activities offer a little variety for the trig practice routine. Students work through each problem and hole punch the answer while the paper is folded into fourths. Then, they can come up to a "check station" where a colored check page is laid out. By unfolding their paper and placing it on top, they can see if their answers are right based on the pattern that the holes make. The problem sets include: - Law of Sines only (8

Practice with circumference and area of circles (and volume of cylinders in the challenge level) using yummy foods! These word problems include circle formulas with pi and it doubles as a coloring book! This set can be used on Pi Day, or any time you need to practice basic skills with circle formulas. The “basic” set of problems (pages 6-10) is ideal for middle school students in 6th or 7th grade who are working on finding area and circumference of a circle. The “challenge” set of problems (pa

Earth Day Math - Project-Based Tasks: This set of five open-ended scenarios can be used in many ways. Try them as project-based tasks, team assignments, learning stations, or worksheets. The open-ended prompts are intended to be used to get students started with researching and problem solving. They investigate the costs of each alternative and use the following skills: - unit rates & unit prices - operations with decimals - proportional reasoning - conversions with time, money, and more If