Purposeful Practice Edu

This has been great way to introduce our statistics unit the past couple of years. Students will join in productive math talk as they justify their answers, create their own examples of statistical and non-statistical questions, work with partners, and put that practice to a test with a sort. It addresses a variety of learning styles, ensuring students are engaged and are set up for success throughout the unit. This could be used as an extension lesson in fifth grade or a reteach lesson in sev

This presentation includes student friendly step-by-step directions for 5 teambuilders and 7 Kagan structures (Canva template link included). There are two slides that include "How to Respond" sentence starters to encourage meaningful conversations among students. These structures can be used in ALL subjects and in ALL grades. Kagan structures and teambuilders support a cooperative learning classroom in which students collaborate with their team to solve problems and answer questions while also

Help students solve one-step equations with these practice sheets. Two practice sheets allows you to use them in different ways to assess student mastery and make instructional changes: INB practice, homework, guided practice, independent practice, or formative assessment.

Finding the missing value when given the mean is quite a challenging standard. This product includes two note pages that guide students into understanding the steps of finding a missing value, along with guided practice problems and independent practice. Answer keys are included! The four square organizer has been a great memory tool for our students in remembering the steps of finding the mean and checking their answer.

This bundle includes notes, practice, application, review, partner activities, and extension on the following topics: statistical vs. non statistical questionsmean, median, rangefinding the missing value given the meaninterquartile rangebox plots

The Three Read Protocol takes the idea of a close read strategy, which is used to help students dive deeper into a text in order to answer higher order thinking questions. The same strategy can be used to help students break down mathematical word problems. This strategy focuses on the meaning rather than simply finding key words. A page of notes, along with one of the practice pages, has numberless word problems to reinforce the importance of the meaning rather than focusing on the numbers. The

This product makes inequalities purposeful by exposing students to real life scenarios in which they will write and graph possible solutions. As a whole group, you can brainstorm key words/phrases that correlate with each inequality phrase. Students will also have the opportunity to create their own scenario. This product contains: note sheet with vocab & key phrasestwo practice sheets (can be used for guided and/or independent practice)answer keys

The Three Read Protocol takes the idea of a close read strategy, which is used to help students dive deeper into a text in order to answer higher order thinking questions. The same strategy can be used to help students break down mathematical word problems. This strategy focuses on the meaning rather than simply finding key words. The item includes: anchor chart/postertwo versions of notes (includes numberless word problem option)extension/multi-step word problem practicesix pages of word prob

This product includes notes for finding the interquartile range of a data set and how to create and interpret box plots. This product offers two versions of notes to meet the needs of learners who need some accommodations. Students will apply their understanding to real life situations. These practice sheets require students to apply, justify, and conclude. This product is for teachers who are trying to reach DOK 3 understanding. All of these notes and practice sheets have been used/tested in ou

Cubing is a research based practice that can be used as a small group, partner, or differentiated task. Cubing promotes higher order thinking, productive math discourse among students, and the eight mathematical practices. This product could be used for sixth grade extension, seventh grade review, and eighth grade remediation. This product includes: algebraic equations and inequalitiesalgebraic expressionsstatisticsabsolute value and integersfractions

Cubing is a research based practice that uses the different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. It promotes higher order thinking, productive discourse among students, and targets almost every mathematical practice and ELA anchor standards. Our template includes various verb stems to help guide you as you create rigorous, authentic questions for your students. Cubing can be used in all content areas, and it can be used as a small group, partner, or differentiated task.

Think-Tac-Toe is a great extension task that also offers student choice. This statistics activity addresses several learning targets and skills, including finding factors, multiplication strategies, models such as tape diagrams and arrays, and the distributive property. This fourth grade think-tac-toe could also be a fifth grade review at the beginning of the year. We love introducing this as a "get to know me" activity first so our students will already know our expectations when we use it in

Think-Tac-Toe is a great extension task that also offers student choice. This statistics activity addresses several learning targets and skills, including finding an unknown value of a data set given the mean, statistical vs. nonstatistical, error analysis, using vocabulary, and providing extension with mean, median, and IQR. We love introducing this as a "get to know me" activity first so our students will already know our expectations when we use it in a content area. Check out our store to gr

Whether you use these pages for notes, guided practice, independent practice, they are a great addition to your statistics unit! We use binders, but these pages can be printed at a smaller scale or two to a page to fit in interactive journals. This can be used as an extension lesson for fifth grade or a remediation lesson for seventh grade. This product includes: vocabulary graphic organizers notesguided practiceextension taskanswer keys helpful "How to Use" page with additional tips

Cubing is a research based practice that can be used as a small group, partner, or differentiated task. Cubing promotes higher order thinking, productive math discourse among students, and the eight mathematical practices. This product includes: DOK Level 2 and 3 Multiplication CubesDOK Level 2 and 3 Division CubesFraction CubeDecimals CubePlace Value Cube

Students need opportunities to discuss what operation needs to be used, but, more importantly, WHY. These slides can be used in a variety of ways: interactive notebook practice, task cards around the room, a math center, whole group game, brief review at the beginning of class, partner task, etc. This product includes 10 word problems.

Purposeful math discourse is crucial to student learning. These sentence starters are a simple way to start teaching students how to talk about math and will help guide students as they problem solve in pairs or teams. These are great to print and display in the classroom as well as a student copy for journals/notebooks. This product includes 5 different color schemes.

This extension bundle offers both partner/small group and independent tasks. Cubing and Think-Tac-Toe gives student choice while also creating the opportunity for creativity, higher order thinking, and productive student discourse.

Make percent purposeful with these real life word problems. This product includes differentiated questions so you can choose which set of questions your students are ready for. Of course you can use these in different ways, but we love to reduce the size of the page and use them in our interactive notebook as a quick check.

Make unit rates purposeful by using real life scenarios where students have to find the better buy or faster rate. This product includes note sheet (could be used as guided practice)practice problemsanswer key