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Student can have fun seeing how many Oreos they can stack! After the activity they will find the mean, median, mode, and range of their data. Together they can graph their data on a line graph. Virginia SOL Aligned

Make math SOL review fun with JENGA! 28 Virginia aligned (2016) 5th grade math SOL questions. Students draw cards and solve the math problems; if their problem is correct they pull the color JENGA piece that is on the card they pulled. You can order this colored JENGA pieces from Amazon!

5th grade math review activity. Students are put into groups where they solve math problems individually then report to the teacher then the group designs an animal. This is a fun, creative, interactive activity that will get your students excited about review!

This is a fun activity that can be done virtually on Google Slides or you could print the clues and allow students to solve the mystery in class.

31 weeks of 5th grade SOL aligned P.O.D.s (Problem of the Day) Students can do it for morning work and check over during math. Great tool to use all year long, builds from the beginning to the end of the year.

Use this activity to model subtracting fractions in a fun and yummy way! Students will cut the Sour Patch Kids in order to create common denominators and then borrow from the whole if needed by cutting up another Sour Patch Kid. My students love this activity and it helps them to understand what borrowing is with fractions.

Interactive distributive property notes for multiplication over addition. Simply explanation of what it is and how to use it.

Review mid-year in a fun way with this relay game! Directions included with answer key. ***UPDATED*** I removed the question about the distributive property from round 3 and fixed the key for other questions that I had incorrect.

UPDATED - Virginia SOL Aligned, students will have the opportunity to show their fraction skills. Adding, subtracting, multiplying (whole number with a fraction), ordering, multi-step word problems, fraction to decimal, and more!

Students answer basic questions about themselves to get the numbers to use for their division problems (some will have 2 digit divisors some have 1 digit divisors). After they have answered the questions they will be given a set of questions to solve to find the specific requirements for their haunted house. This is a fun way to practice basic division, multi-task directions, and to integrate creativity.

Use this Google Slides activity with your students for practice with order of operations. It is easy to grade and quick practice for students. The students will solve 24 problems and match the cards with the same answers.

Student can be placed in four groups to rotate around to complete these fractions stations. All stations are independent but could also be attended by a teacher. Comparing Fractions Adding Fractions Converting Fractions to Decimals Ordering Fractions

Present the card to the students and have them form a word problem where the answer is the one stated on the card. You can have students make one-step problem or make it more difficult and ask them to make a multistep problem. I often will allow the students to give their question to another student to solve. This can be used in many different ways. o Bulletin Board o Station work o Warm ups o Group work

These notes will be great to use for introducing adding and subtracting fractions.

Allow students to explore volume of a rectangular prism! Students can create a rectangular prism using base ten blocks - or something similar. Then using 3D pens, create the prism they made.

Guided volume notes of rectangular prisms.

Poster to be displayed in classroom or slip it in your students' folders as a reminder.

Guided notes for teaching area of triangles and a Frayer Model included as a follow-up to the lesson.

Students can choose the appropriate measurement of certain items. SOL 5.8e