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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

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

Math Puzzles - operations, logic, numbers , number talks, warm-ups Maths 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 students to solve math pr

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

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

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

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

Multi-Digit Multiplication activity cards, Area model, Partial products Algorithm, mental math strategies. 134 digital (google slides) and 130 print level-organized activities to help all your students practice multi-digit multiplication. Find the worksheets version of this resource here. You can get the bundle with both the activity cards and the worksheets as well. Multi-digit multiplication is taught through multiple methods such as area model, partial products algorithm, and the distributi

This resource is a collection of word problem activities, 1,2, and 3 step problems included (addition,subtraction, multiplication, division) as well as challenge/puzzle problems to challenge your students with and motivate your advanced learners. The resource includes 150 google slides and 145 print activity cards with 8 different types of activities. Find the worksheets version hereSelect the operation for the problem. This group of activities requires the students to select the operation/opera

Division Activities, arrays, base 10 blocks, partial quotients, remainders Diving into Division - Level 2 This second jumbo collection of division activities (level 2) is for grades 3,4,5 and it includes Division vocabularypartitive and quotative divisionword problems with number-linesword problems with arrays (with and without remainder)division with bars puzzleshow to use the multiplication table for divisionhow to solve division problems using base 10 blockshow to use friendlier numbers or

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

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

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

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

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