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To celebrate the new year, present this unique challenge to your gifted math students. The directions are explained on the worksheet. Students will need to use math processes to arrive at the value of the new year number, beginning with their age number and moving through ten steps. Students will begin to see the magic of numbers, patterns, and the power that we have in arriving at the answers we need, sometimes through some trial and error, as they complete this New Years Math Challenge.

How do we engage our math students? How do we make math engaging while still assessing their learning? How can we afford to make math engaging? This activity or math center involves using recycled and labeled water bottle lids and "activity mats." You could also run off the pages and use them as regular worksheets and the students can write in the missing numbers, but I find that giving them something beyond paper and pencil makes math more engaging. Each skill has two "activity mats" for pra

Ohio has now granted schools the ability to create online assignments for students to complete on snow days. Here's what I have created for my Title 1 Math students. There are nine different activities to choose from. They pick one math activity to complete at home for each day they are out. To show proof that the activity was completed, there are lists or questions that they have to write down and turn in as well as a parent signature. Activities include Measurement, Fractions, Collecting

Using the digits of the new year- 2, 0, 1, and 4 students rearrange the digits to create 4 new numbers. The worksheet also provides practice with comparing numbers, place value, digit value, and expanded form.