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I have used an interactive notebook for the last 3 years in math and my students love it (well, at least most of them). I found though, that for my lower level students and lower level classes, all of the cute foldable, flippables could be overwhelming and take away quite a bit of instruction time. I decided to adapt my normal interactive notebook to create something more manageable for students who struggled with the interactive piece. I still felt there was a value in taking notes and writin

These Performance Based Assessments align with the 6th grade common core standards for Mathematics. There is 1 PBA for ratios and proportions. 2 PBA for Number System and 2 for Algebra.Each Performance Based Assessment includes Multi Step problems and multi choice problems that are mirrored from the Style of the Parcc and PBA. Answer keys are included after each assessment. These Performance Based Assessments look like the Smarter Balanced and PARCC style assessments students will see.

Checkpoints are a mini formative assessments that show whether students understand concepts. These fraction checkpoints are aligned with the new common core standards on adding and subtracting fractions, as well as some other prerequisites such as changing mixed numbers and improper fractions, simplifying fractions, ratios, and equivalent fractions. This bundle of checkpoints has 3 checkpoints included, with I can statements at the top as well as a place to mark whether the student is proficien

This is a fun visual I use with my kids in regards to the Distributive property. I call it the dating property which works well with middle school kids. It shows a cute little scenario of dating history and pictures. Enjoy!

This is a common core aligned challenge page great for higher level thinkers or gifted dealing with orders of operations. I usually use it as an incentive page (not for a grade). It could be done in groups or partners even.