Melanie Schultz

A week-long math project that involves making an informative math poster about a subject in math that the student feels comfortable about. Students need to do some writing and critical thinking about what makes some concepts harder than others, and get to spend time on a subject that they feel good about, giving them some much-needed math confidence. The project is 2 pages long, and includes detailed instructions, an agenda to guide the students every day for 5 weeks, and a rubric for grading.

A graphic organizer for students to fill in with information about the basic mathematics properties (Associative, Commutative, etc). My students loved having this in front of them - they didn't have to copy down names of properties, they had plenty of space to write examples, and had no trouble referencing the sheet later on.

This is one of the first homeworks I use when reviewing fractions from the bottom up. Students need to find the prime factors of numbers, and explore divisibility rules for different numbers. It could easily be developed into a class activity by adding more examples and expanding the number block on the bottom half of the page to include all the numbers from 1-100. The final question asks students to do some critical thinking about prime and composite numbers, and is a good way to assess whet