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This guide will help your students memorize the steps for long division using the mnemonic device "Does McDonalds Sell Cheese Burgers (Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Check, Bring down)." When you print, make sure to check "Fit" so that the entire document will fit on the page.

Using a box of Sweethearts Candy, students review many math concepts: estimation, landmarks, bar graphs, circle graphs, transformations, measurement, area, surface area and volume. Great for 5th, 6th, 7th.

I glued this on the front of a file folder and laminated the entire folder, and I will put make-up work in it for specific students. They will find it in their student mailboxes, and I will later ask them for their "ketchup" work. You could use it in many ways!

This activity uses serving sizes of popcorn to help students discover reciprocals in basic division problems. At the conclusion of the activity, students should be able to find the rule for dividing a whole number by a fraction, which can easily be translated into dividing a fraction by a fraction.

Hang this in your classroom or hand it out as a flyer. These strategies will help your students be more successful on standards based assessments!