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Math talks, number talks, warm-ups, math discussions, problems, strategies, mental math, operations, patterns, challenge, and more. Math talks are short activities (around 10 minutes) designed to provide opportunities for the students to make connections in mathematics and explain their thinking to their peers. Questions that encourage students to think of different strategies and realize that there is no one way to solve a problem. There are many ways to see and understand mathematics. Math tal

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

Bundle of the print versions of the Multiplication and Division Escape Room Adventures with a fun Greek Mythology Theme. Practice the Algorithm, Mental Math Strategies, Facts, and more. Looking for a way to make multi-digit multiplication and division exciting for your students? Bring Math to Life with a Greek Mythology Escape Room!  Students become heroes on a quest through Ancient Greece, solving math challenges to prove their wisdom and perseverance. Each puzzle unlocks the next clue—keeping

Halloween Puzzles, Brain teasers, Math talks, Number Talks, challenge, practice, review, google slides, Halloween jokes included This is a collection of 62 Halloween puzzles with colorful fun Halloween graphics. The puzzles can be used as Math talk activities as well. Many of the puzzles have more than one answer and they are great for initiating conversations about different strategies and more. The puzzle cards are great for group work and they will make a fun Halloween escape room activity. S

Multiplication Escape Room Adventure with a fun Greek Mythology Theme. Practice the Algorithm, Mental Strategies and more. Looking for a way to make multi-digit multiplication exciting for your students? Bring Math to Life with a Greek Mythology Escape Room!   The Adventure Begins… Students become heroes on a quest through Ancient Greece, solving math challenges to prove their wisdom and perseverance. Each puzzle unlocks the next clue—keeping engagement high and students fully invested from sta

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

Christmas, Winter Holidays Escape Rooms Adventure with Instant Feedback. Practice Multiplication Division Facts, Factors, Multiples, Properties, Strategies, Divisibility and more. Get ready for a magical trip to the North Pole with our Winter Holiday Adventure — a fun and engaging collection of math challenges designed to build confidence and mastery in multiplication, division, factors, multiples, divisibility rules, and more! Print and digital version with Instant feedback! This is the Digit

Math puzzles, warm-ups, brainteasers, centers, challenge, math talks Are your students smarter than a chicken? Have them prove it. This resource is a collection of fun puzzles presented by the clever rebel chickens. The puzzles include problem-solving strategies such as logic reasoning, guess and check and revise, make a table, draw a diagram, find a pattern. They visit the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, multiples and factors, division, fractions and more. The story: The re

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

Christmas, Winter Holidays Printable Escape Rooms Adventure. Practice Multiplication and Division Facts, Factors, Multiples, Properties, Strategies, Divisibility and more. Get ready for a magical trip to the North Pole with our Winter Holiday Adventure — a fun and engaging collection of math challenges designed to build confidence and mastery in multiplication, division, factors, multiples, divisibility rules, and more! Print and digital version with Instant feedback! This is the Print version

Winter Holiday, Christmas Escape Rooms Adventure with Instant Feedback. 20 rooms each. Students will practice the following concepts.additionsubtractionmultiplicationdivisionmultiples/factorsorder of operationsorderingproblem-solving (puzzles)finding patternsThis is the Escape Adventure 2 version of the winter holiday activities collection previously shared in google slides and print cards. The escape versions are in two parts and this is part 2. The google slides and the print versions are th

Winter Holidays-Christmas digital task cards, puzzles, review, practice, centers. Practice mental math, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rounding, problem-solving, fractions, and more. Here are some winter holiday-themed activities for grades 3/4. The task cards include puzzles, riddles, word problems, and more. There are 100+ activities in this resource. The resource also includes two build and decorate a gingerbread house (train, sleigh, and more) activities. How to use the ac

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.

This resource includes 8 games boards to practice rounding up numbers as well as the digital google slides version with a spinner. It also includes bingo cards to practice rounding. There are eight different game boards to choose according to the level you would like to practice. Practice rounding two-digit numbers to the nearest 10, rounding three-digit numbers to the nearest 100, rounding four-digit numbers to the nearest 100, and rounding numbers to the nearest thousand. Play the printable v

Mental Math Strategies, Multiplication, Properties, Rounding,Decomposing, Doubling and halving, Multiplying by 9,11,5, Factors of 100, Grouping, Multiplying in stages, Encouraging students to look for patterns and connections in multiplication and finding quicker methods to solve problems will help them develop their mental multiplication skills and improve their number sense. Apart from the algorithm that requires splitting a number according to place value, there are many more strategies that

Math puzzles, warm-ups, brainteasers, centers, challenge, math talks Are your students smarter than a chicken? Have them prove it. This resource is a collection of fun puzzles presented by the clever rebel chickens. The puzzles include problem-solving strategies such as logic reasoning, guess and check and revise, draw a diagram, find a pattern. They visit the concepts of number sense, addition, subtraction, multiplication, even-odd numbers, and more. The story: The rebel chickens have taken o

The Binions are back for more adventures this time in a new game to practice multiplication and division facts, multiples, and factors. The game is an extension of the Multiplication Mission resource Multiplication Mission – arrays, properties, multiples, factors, divisionThe game is played in two ways and it comes in print and googles slides version. (web version coming soon)

Representing numbers using base ten blocks, bead strings, and more manipulatives allows students to gain a concrete understanding of place value and regrouping. This resource includes 130 slides to practice representing numbers up to 1000 and place value with base 10 blocks, bead strings, and 100 grids. How to use this resource Use these activities for math centers and group work, as warm ups, to initiate discussions, for homework, and assessment. Find more place value resources here This reso

Subtracting 3-digit numbers using base 10 blocks, 100 grids, number lines, expanded form, mental math strategies, and more. Subtracting 3-digit numbers in grades 2 and 3 takes time for many students to master, especially when regrouping is required. Establishing a good understanding of place value is necessary before moving on to operations. Base 10 blocks are great for understanding place value and for simulating subtraction. Representing numbers with base 10 blocks allows students to see the