Monica Bennett Gee

The students will decode a secret message coined by Dolores Huerta as part of the United Farm Workers movement advocating for farm workers' rights by solving multiplication facts 0x0 to 12x12. This download includes a worksheet with instructions in English, a worksheet with instructions in Spanish, and a key.

Instead of labeling my 31 students' backpack hooks with their names or alphabetical order numbers, I printed these 4th grade review expressions, cut them apart, and posted each one on a hook. On the first day of school, I give the students a blank sheet of paper to fold into squares. They solve an expression in each box until they find the one equal to their alphabetical order number. Quick students helped those who were having trouble. In my class, no student hung up his/her backpack until