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Arrays are a great way to introduce multiplication in grade 2 and 3. Playing with arrays will help students model multiplication as repeated addition and understand the properties of multiplication. It is very important that we help students visualize and understand multiplication early on so that we build a strong foundation to support the learning of division, fractions and so much more. Students need to make connections that will help them gain automaticity with multiplication and division f

Introducing Fractions - Print and digital activities part of a group part of a whole, more than one Both educators and parents agree that fractions and their operations are one of the most difficult concepts for students to grasp. What makes fractions so challenging for students? The introduction of the concept of fractions comes with a new vocabulary, new rules, new symbols, and the new concept of values between zero and 1. All this new information is hard to handle. However, when students are

This jumbo collection of division activities (level 1-starting with division) is for the students that are just starting to learn division, grades 1,2,3 and it includes playful activities with lots of manipulatives to arrange and share in order to understand and solve division problems. (starting with dividing groups by two and moving on to arrays) Division vocabularysharing equallypartitive and quotative divisionword problems with manipulatives word problems with number-linesarrays (with and w

Math puzzles, math talks, warm-ups, for escape rooms, early finishers, challenge and more. Math puzzles are essentially math problems with a bit of a challenge or a twist that makes them interesting and exciting. Solving puzzles can help students develop a positive attitude towards maths as long as they are chosen carefully based on skill level so that they allow opportunities for success. Solving math puzzles at school and at home has many benefits. Math puzzles and brain teasers encourage st

These are simple matching games, bingo games, and four-in-a-row games for the introduction level of fractions. The game boards have simple visuals to help students recognize different fractions, and match equivalent ones. I have shared some games with visuals to practice completing one and matching equivalent fractions before, however, today’s games are simpler and include different ways of representing different fractions with numbers up to 6. The games come in print and digital (Google Slides

This multiplication adventure includes 164 digital activities (google slides) starting from multiplication as repeated addition and moving on to arrays, multiplication properties, multiples, factors, and division. The questions provide visual help and manipulatives for conceptual understanding and deep learning. They allow you to provide support for your low-floor students and challenge your high ceiling ones. The students will be taking on a mission to save the little Binions from the Evil pro

Multiplication and division facts practice activity cards. Visual help, strategies, tricks, puzzles. Promote fluency without stress. Math talks. As we all know multiplication fact fluency is very important as it is the base for many concepts like multi-digit multiplication, equivalent fractions, division and, many more. Therefore, multiplication facts practice deserves time and effort. Rushing into drills that promote meaningless memorization with endless repetition will not help in the long

Activities on the 100 chart are a great way to build fluency with numbers in grades 1 and 2 and 3. Students can find patterns and relations, understand one more, one less, add and subtract tens and ones, count by 2,3, and so on. This resource includes 30 print activities and 36 digital ones (google slides) find the missing numbersput numbers in ordercomparepuzzles of the 100 chartcounting by 2,3,4,5The sides are used in edit mode so that the objects are movable. Find more number sense resource

This resource includes 45 printable cards and 45 interactive digital slides to practice place value with up to six-digit numbers. There are three kinds of google slides. At the first level, the students are asked to place the blocks in a table that provides visual help. At the second level, there is no table so the students can place the blocks in any order. Make sure to explain to the students that there are many different ways to represent a number, for example, a thousand can be replaced by

Starting with multiplication Arrays and area models are a great way to introduce multiplication in grade 2 and 3. Playing with arrays will help students model multiplication as repeated addition and understand the properties of multiplication. It is very important that we help students visualize and understand multiplication early on so that we build a strong foundation to support the learning of division, fractions and so much more. Students need to make connections that will help them gain aut

Digital Activity with 4 games, 3 levels each, to practice Decomposing numbers, Regrouping, Addition, and Subtraction with 2-Digits numbers, and skip count by 2 & 5. Scaffolding with manipulatives and concrete visuals included. Instant Feedback. Chicken Escape — Chapter 1 is a collection of four math games ( work on tablets as well) for students grades k-3. Each game tackles a different early-math skill through a playful farmyard scene. This activity (and more to come ) are a continuation of

Print and digital activities for teaching time to the nearest hour and minute, half-past the clock, quarter past and to, explanations, discussions, puzzles, and more. Most of the activities include clocks divided into hour parts to help the students understand the clock better. There are activities with clocks without the partition as well. The activities are grouped to practice each concept individually and all the concepts together as well. Explanations for each concept, o'clock, half past,

Base ten blocks, bead strings, 100 grids, place value discs and more manipulatives provide hands-on ways to learn place value, number concepts, operations, measurement, and much more. Students use these manipulatives to physically represent numbers so they can develop a deeper understanding. Building number combinations with manipulatives helps students understand the concept of regrouping or trading and see the logical development of each operation. Using base 10 blocks for adding numbers allow

Using the 100 grid, tens and ones for addition and subtraction.Using 100 grids to solve addition and subtraction problems is a great way for students to understand place value and regrouping. Placing/coloring tens and ones on a 100 (or more) grid helps them represent the first number and then add or subtract the second. They can see how the ones turn into tens in addition and how tens "break" to subtract ones. For subtraction, the first number is represented on the grid and the students color

Mental Math Strategies for Addition and Subtraction with visuals. Compensating, decomposing, balancing, and clustering. Bundle of google slides and print task cards. Teaching Mental math Strategies to students even in grades 3 and up is very important as it develops their flexible thinking and boosts their confidence in math. Being able to use the addition and subtraction properties to apply mental math strategies shows a deep conceptual understanding that will, later on, be applied to more adv

Number Sense, number talks, comparing numbers, ordering numbers, find patterns represent numbers with 100s 10s and 1s, odd and even numbers, skip counting by 2,5 and 10. Students need a variety of activities to learn and experience numbers. This collection of digital activities (interactive google slides) will allow them to practice Decomposing numbers (adding groups to make the number) representing numbers with 100s 10s and 1s to 200Skip counting by 2,5, and 10Comparing numbersOrdering numbersO

Scales are a great hands-on tool for comparing numbers and learning about equivalence and it is a lot of fun for students to use. These printable and digital activity cards aim to help practice equivalence and addition/subtraction using the concept of scales. The students can use a physical scale to solve the problems or any other manipulatives like blocks or balls. There are many different levels of activity cards. The first few cards require students to draw or place groups of objects on one

Multiplication and division facts practice worksheets, task cards, google slides. Visual help, strategies, tricks, puzzles. Promote fluency without stress. As we all know multiplication fact fluency is very important as it is the base for many concepts like multi-digit multiplication, equivalent fractions, division and, many more. Therefore, multiplication facts practice deserves time and effort. Rushing into drills that promote meaningless memorization with endless repetition will not help in t

Multiplication /Division facts, factors, multiples - Digital Escape room Adventure 1. Instant feedback, fun interesting problems. This resource is a digital escape game in which the students have to solve the puzzles of one “room/scene” to move to the next one. It is placed in a magical fantasy land with trolls, elves, and other fairytale characters. There are 10 scenes/puzzles in this game. The game offers instant feedback in the sense that they need to get the correct answer to move to the ne

There are some great free virtual tools on the web that can be used by students to practice skills and by teachers to explain different concepts. We have added some of our favorite ones for grades k-6 in this google slide. Feel free to use it as it is or edit it according to your needs. Find the link at https://mathcurious.com/2020/07/29/virtual-math-manipulatives/ Please make sure that you follow the link and make a copy before you add the link to your classroom.