Nicholas Reitz

The favorite family game has been altered to be played so that kids can practice their multiplication fact fluency! These sheets can be printed and laminated for permanent use. Perfect for partners to play during a Math Workshop.

This pack contains directions, fake blank checks, and record keeping sheets for a great project for your math students. Students are tasked with spending a million dollars. They are required to buy a house, a vehicle, and a college education. Students research those required purchases, along with other luxury items, until they've spent every dime! This project based learning activity helps students understand the value of money, place value to a million, and addition and subtraction of large

This is a multi-faceted project based learning project that has the students simulate building a large garden/small farmlet, harvest produce and honey, rent space at a farmer's market, purchase ad space, and eventually sell their products. It takes the students through all of the steps, and can be worked on individually as an extension exercise or as a whole class to add interest to your math workshop. The level of difficulty can be adjusted by allowing students to use calculators, or by asking

This set of 25 Multiplication and Division Word Problems with Too Much Information Task Cards are perfect to have kids practice looking through a word problem to find the relevant info for solving the problem. A student recording sheet and answer key are also included. Ever have kids that just see the two numbers in a problem, know you're studying multiplication, so they skip reading it carefully? The mix of operations and the addition of one extra number in these word problems is perfect to c

This is a unique way to track students' fact fluency progress! Whenever a student masters a table, they get to color in a piece of the mandala. Coloring in the mandala is great way to practice patterning and rotational symmetry as well! There are 5 unique mandala designs included in this packet. The mandala is an ancient symbol that means "circle." It is supposed to mathematically represent the universe. Quizzes are included for each of the multiplication and division tables. Facts are repeat

This activity asks kids to roll dice to determine what their monster looks like? As they roll the dice they add or multiply them (depending on the sheet given) and then follow a key to determine the number of heads, tails, arms, legs and eyes that their monster should have. The kids get to draw the monster as they go along! This is a fun set of activities to practice the following facts: Addition of 2 numbers Addition of 3 numbers Multiplication of two numbers These make a great math center,

This game is a great way to have kids practice finding an unknown number in a multiplication or division equation. Using letters to represent a variable is often confusing for kids, but this game really solidifies the idea for them while giving them much needed mental math practice.

This is the METRIC VERSION of my multi-faceted project based learning project that has the students simulate building a large garden/small farmlet, harvest produce and honey, rent space at a farmer's market, purchase ad space, and eventually sell their products. It takes the students through all of the steps, and can be worked on individually as an extension exercise or as a whole class to add interest to your math workshop. The level of difficulty can be adjusted by allowing students to use ca

Imagine starting your math lesson by asking your students, "Are you ready for a Monster Fight?!" This is a unique approach to practicing math that involves a bracketed tournament of "monster battles." Each day two movie monsters will do "battle" by solving math problems. Each battle consists of 10 rounds of basic math fact problems. The monster with the highest product for each round, wins that round. The monster with the most rounds won, moves on to the next battle! Every fact from the 0-12 m

This 10 page packet of materials was designed to be given to students all at once to work on over the course of several days during math workshop rotations. However, the individual pages could also be used independently! The following skills are addressed throughout this packet: Addition of multiple addends (1, 2, and 3-digit) Conversion between units of time, weight, and length Solving multi-step word problems Sequencing Data collection and representation Elapsed time Averaging Fractions Plac

A great boggle game to play during math to build fluency and number sense. Students use the basic four operations to build a number that is greater than 50. Includes a pre-made board and a blank board.

This is a great project for practicing a lot of different math skills in a realistic way. This project covers addition and subtraction of money, multiplication and division (including decimals), and several other important skills. Kids take $20 and build a realistic lemonade stand...which they eventually turn into a lemonade empire! Optional writing prompts are included as well! Great for an independent or guided center in a Math Workshop.

This is a set of 20 task cards that has kids practice the important skill of reading a word problem carefully and writing a variable equation to show how they might solve that problem. All four of the basic operations are covered. Student record sheet and teacher answer key are also included.

This is a set of three rounding numbers games. Cards and instructions are included to play three different games that have kids practice their rounding to the nearest ten skills, as well as their addition, subtraction and multiplication skills. The three games included are Estimating to find Sums, Differences, and Products. 60 game cards are included. One card is blank to allow you to copy and add your own numbers if you choose to expand the game. 3 game boards are included as well!

This is a great game to practice solving problems with unknown numbers! This kaboom game includes 66 game cards, plus 6 additional "bomb" cards. Instructions are included to play the game as a whole class or in small groups. The cards include problems based on facts from 2-12, with one missing number represented by a variable. My kids love playing this game both as a whole class or in small groups.

This is a great way for students to practice their multiplication facts! It's perfect for a mental math activity to hone fact fluency. It makes an engaging math center, or a quick class activity. Kaboom is a great game that can be played whole group or in small groups. Instructions for both games are included. This product includes one card for each fact in the 0-12 times tables, an instruction page, and 12 bomb cards. The cards can also be used as simple flash cards or task cards.

Brag tags are a great way for students to get positive reinforcement or to celebrate milestones and accomplishments! These brag tags can be used as a great reward for when students master the times tables from 0-12. Template used with special permission from Fifth in the Middle: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Fifth-In-The-Middle http://fifthinthemiddle.blogspot.com

This is a great Kaboom game to practice addition and subtraction of decimal numbers to the tenths place. It can be played whole class or in small groups. I use this game as a math center. This is a fun way to practice with decimal numbers. This game comes with 24 addition, 24 subtraction and 6 bomb cards. I've also included a set of 6 blank cards in case you'd like to make additional cards! Frames courtesy of www.croftsclassroom.blogspot.com

Imagine starting your math lesson by asking your students, "Are you ready for a Monster Fight?!" This is a unique approach to practicing math that involves a bracketed tournament of "monster battles." Each day two movie monsters will do "battle" by solving math problems. Each battle consists of 10 rounds of basic math fact problems. The monster with the highest quotient for each round, wins that round. The monster with the most rounds won, moves on to the next battle! Every fact from the 1-12

This is a game I created to help my kids become fluent with their multiplication (and division) facts. Students play the game in pairs. Rules and five variations of the game board are included. My students love playing this game. It's perfect for independent practice during a math workshop.