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Engage your students in meaningful, real-world math during the 2018 Olympic games! These six activities will get your students organizing and analyzing authentic Olympic data and working to solve sports-themed problems. Here's what's included in this pack: Olympic Years: Using information about the frequency of the Olympic games, students determine which years are/were/will be Olympic years. Rounding and Ranking: Given a data table of medals won by different countries, students round the numb

*Now updated to include Joe Biden. Authentic math task perfect for the lead-up to election season or Presidents' Day! Students will use data to discover trends and learn about the ages of US presidents on Inauguration Day. This download contains president age sorting strips for each of the US presidents. (Note: Cleveland included only once.) Students can cut and sort the strips to help them organize the presidential data to answer the questions on the activity sheet. The final task on the activi

Engage students with authentic election data! This election-themed activity will get your students exploring and discussing the important issue of voter turnout. Integrate social studies with math while covering place value and data analysis concepts. What's Included?:Voter turnout table with data from elections from 1932-2020Graphing activity - covers rounding and data plotting/graphing skillsActivity sheet - gets students analyzing and performing computations with dataAnswer key for activity s

Math Mindsets, now bundled for savings! This product contains both of my Math Mindset products -- at a discounted price. With this download, you receive the mindset poster pack, problem-solving sheets for each of the five mindsets, and two versions of the Math Mindset scoring rubric. I teach my students (second graders) five math mindsets: 1. Look for Multiple Ways to Solve a Problem: This mindset highlights that there are many different ways to tackle the same problem and that, by not lim

This item is now bundled for savings! Click here! Math Mindsets are the guiding principles that underlie my instruction in mathematics, specifically as it relates to critical thinking and problem-solving. I expose my students to these concepts early on in the year, and we revisit them whenever we are working on tackling a complex mathematical problem. This pack includes five problem-solving sheets (one focusing on each mindset) and two versions of a self-assessment rubric for students. The

This item is now bundled for savings! Click here! Math Mindsets are the guiding principles that underlie my instruction in mathematics, specifically as it relates to critical thinking and problem-solving. I expose my students to these concepts early on in the year, and we revisit them whenever we are working on tackling a complex mathematical problem. This pack includes a constructible bulletin board header (I back mine with orange construction paper), the five math mindsets in poster form,

In this activity, students are exposed to three different systems of tally marks used in various parts of the world. Students learn the "why" behind tally marks by exploring the different ways that tally marks are used. The activity consists of four parts. In part one, students use the tally mark systems to generate a given number. In the second part, students must look at a number constructed using tally marks and deduce its identity. In part three, students create and identify their own numbe

This product contains 50 critical-thinking problems that will keep your students building their mathematical reasoning skills all year long! Introduction: The 50 problems in this pack are designed to be challenging for your students. They are based on topics covered in the CCSS for grades 3-5, so some problems may be more appropriate for students just developing competencies in these skills, while others may be better suited for higher-skilled students. The goal of these problems is to have st

Help students improve their ability to reason with units of length with this match and sort activity! This activity can be used as a whole-group task, small-group work, partner work, or as a math center. Targeted Skills: Identifying units of length in Imperial and Metric systems of measurement, converting between units within systems, and classifying lengths from shortest to longest Contents: 24 match-up cards (12 Imperial units and 12 Metric units) 1 activity sheet for recording answers

This Order of Operations True or False Activity is designed to be used as a math center activity but could also be utilized in other ways during your math instruction, such as for a review activity or as a group task. The pack contains two sets of number sentence cards at two different levels of difficulty. The first set of cards has number sentences that contain the four operations and parentheses. The second set of cards has number sentences that contain the four operations, parentheses, and

One of my best-selling TPT products -- now updated with a fresh look and new content!Teach Data Analysis the open-ended and engaging way -- through student-directed surveys! This resource pack is designed to help students follow the process of creating a survey: they will brainstorm questions, collect data, organize their obtained data, create multiple graphs to show their data, and then reflect on and analyze what their data tells them. The survey pack includes the following: Brainstorming Surv

Your students are on the case! This pack includes 5 different math mysteries for your students to solve using their math skills. Each mystery works the same way – students will learn about what has taken place and then get a set of alibi cards. Students have to check the math presented in each alibi – if the suspect has made a math mistake, then he or she is guilty of the crime! Each case includes a worksheet that outlines the case and provides a workspace for checking the math in the alibis,

This download contains a fraction "I Have...Who Has?" game to help students practice their fraction identification skills. This product is a free sample of my "I Have...Who Has?" bundle, which includes 28 different games to help students practice a variety of math and ELA skills. You can view that product here I Have...Who Has Bundle href> "I Have...Who Has?" games are circular games that (using the materials in this pack) involve up 24 students. These games are a fun way to practice skill

Time flies is a game to help your students practice telling time to the nearest five minutes by recognizing times written in words, times displayed on digital clocks, and times shown on analog clocks. This download contains the following: - Directions sheet - 12 frog cards with times written in words - 12 fly cards with times displayed on digital clocks - 12 fly cards with times displayed on analog clocks Directions: Help the frog get his lunch! Get a set of Time Flies cards. Sort the cards i

Your students can go for the gold in this addition and subtraction concentration game! This download includes 24 cards for playing addition and subtraction concentration -- 12 problem cards and 12 answer cards. All of the problems require students to carry or to borrow and help to reinforce regrouping skills. How to Play: Cut out playing cards. Lay out cards face down in two separate groups – one for problem cards and one for answer cards. Flip over two cards – one problem card and one answer

This pack contains five different worm activities: How Do You Feel about Worms?: Students complete a series of questions about how they feel about worms before learning and interacting with them and then answer the questions again after the unit concludes. Wriggly Worms!: Students should each be given a worm. They are then guided through the process of exploring their worm – they must draw a picture, measure their worm, and use their senses to make observations about their worm. Diary of a W