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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 Print Algebra Escape Room Adventures 1&2: Practice Solving linear equations, Combining like terms, Distributive property, Multi-step equations, Systems of equations, Word problems , algebraic expressions, Logical reasoning & inequalities Step into a world of gods, heroes, and logic with these Algebra escape challenges designed to engage and excite your students! Two levelWhat’s included?Two immersive escape Adventure set in a Greek mythology theme where students must solve puzzles to

Interactive Digital Escape rooms adventure with instant feedback. Fractions review. This resource is the second level of an interactive escape room with puzzles to review fractions. It is a digital game in which the students get to move to a new room/puzzle when solving each puzzle. There are 9 escape rooms in the resource each one followed by a solution/reward page. The mission of the escape adventure is to save the little aliens( Binions) and yourself from the mad scientist (Professor Madlock

Print Algebra Escape Room Adventure 2: Practice Solving linear equations, Combining like terms, Distributive property, Multi-step equations, Systems of equations, Word problems , algebraic expressions, Logical reasoning & inequalities Step into a world of gods, heroes, and logic with these interactive algebra escape challenges designed to engage and excite your students! Two levels, instant feedback, print and DigitalThis is the print version of the level 2.What’s included?An immersive escape

Print Version of Always, Sometimes, Never Print Cards for Decimals Review, Math Talks, Warm-ups, Assessment, centers, Early finishers, challenge and more. Looking for a rich way to build decimal sense? This print ( + digital) set uses Always / Sometimes / Never statements to get students thinking, talking, and justifying—not just computing. It’s designed for Math Talks, Warm-ups, Centers/Stations, Early Finishers, Exit Tickets, Intervention, and Enrichment with self-check options that give insta

Print Algebra Escape Room Adventure 1: Practice Solving linear equations, Combining like terms, Distributive property, Multi-step equations, Systems of equations, Word problems , algebraic expressions, Logical reasoning & inequalities Step into a world of gods, heroes, and logic with these interactive algebra escape challenges designed to engage and excite your students! Two levels, instant feedback, print and DigitalThis is the print version of the level 1. What’s included?An immersive e

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

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

Pre Algebra 1, 2 steps Equations and Inequalities, Balancing the scale Google slides version-task cards These scales activities aim to help students understand equations and inequalities with and without variables. The activities are organized in the order Understand the equivalence concept using scalesTRUE FALSE statements according to the scale.Information provided by the scales.Remove and place weights to balance the scale (remove add equal weights on both sides)Calculate the value of the va

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.

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

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

Halloween Puzzles, Brain teasers, Math talks, Number Talks, challenge, practice, review, google slides, Halloween jokes. This is a collection of 55 Halloween puzzles/slides 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

Time Travel Escape Room Adventure, instant feedback, digital, grades 4-6 The second one of the Time Travel Escape Room Adventure collection is perfect for spiral review across upper elementary and middle school. Students journey through time—solving puzzles from Ancient Egypt to the Incan Empire, Feudal Japan, Medieval Europe, Ancient China, the Roman Times and even a futuristic Floating colony—all while practicing essential math skills. Can be useful as an interdisciplinary (intercurricular

Mental Math Strategies for Addition and Subtraction with visuals. Compensating, decomposing, balancing, and clustering. 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 advanced concepts. Some students discover menta

Mental Math Strategies for Division. Simplifying the problems. Partial products. Google slides We have already shared resources for mental math strategies for addition and subtraction as well as mental math strategies for multiplication This resource is about division strategies that not only help students solve problems quickly but most importantly they help them gain a conceptual understanding of numbers and develop flexible mathematical thinking. Once your students have understood the conc