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 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

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

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

This product includes: note sectiontwo guided practice sheets using two different strategiesindependent practice/application sheetanswer keys

Assess your students' level of understanding of algebraic equations, expressions, and inequalities. It could also be used as a pre-assessment in seventh grade before teaching algebraic standards. Mixed Six is such a versatile task for the classroom! It can be used as homework, a math station assignment, independent practice, or, our personal favorite, a formative assessment. Because it addresses all DOK levels, it really helps us see our students' levels of understanding and how to adjust our in

Mixed Six is such a versatile task for the classroom! It can be used as homework, a math station assignment, independent practice, or, our personal favorite, a formative assessment. Because it addresses all DOK levels, it really helps us see our students' levels of understanding and how to adjust our instruction.

Rally Coach is a Kagan structure used with partners to help students identify misconceptions and coach each other through the process. This dividing fractions task can be used in fifth and sixth grades. Students will divide a combination of fractions, whole numbers, and mixed numbers. Check out our Kagan Structure Guide in our store!