Rogue Algorithm

Build your students’ proficiency with solving two-step word problems with this set of task cards, resource materials, and assessment activities. With this “print-and-go” resource, you’ll have everything you need to develop, strengthen, and assess your students’ problem solving skills. NOTE: You can purchase Step to It! (Set B), the follow-up to this set, available here. All of the materials in Set B are different from the materials in Set A. ___________________________________________________

Students begin to develop their ability to reason comparatively in elementary school, learning to distinguish between multiplicative comparisons (21 is 3 times as big as 7) and additive comparisons (21 is 3 greater than 18), and such reasoning underlies the work with algebra and ratio & proportion that they will be doing in middle school and beyond. This bundle of resources – which includes 3 sets of task cards, 5 sets of I Have…Who Has? cards, 4 reference sheets, and 9 different assessment act

Help your students become experts with tenths and hundredths, developing their understanding of how these fractions relate with this set of games, activity cards, reference sheets, and assessment activities. ************************************************************************ Save $$$ by purchasing this product as part of my Decimals on the Grid bundle, which includes four sets of task cards, a game, a set of I Have...Who Has? cards, and more! ********************************************

These twelve self-checking number line riddles focusing on interpreting number lines using fractional intervals are a great resource for classwork, centers, or homework. My kids love doing riddles like these (though I think what they love even more is telling me how corny the jokes are). I, of course, love being able to quickly grade an entire stack of papers! _______________________________________________________________________ Common Core State Standards for Mathematics addressed: Numbers

These twelve self-checking number line riddles focusing on volume of rectangular prisms and irregular figures are a great resource for classwork, centers, or homework. My kids love doing riddles like these (though I think what they love even more is telling me how corny the jokes are). I, of course, love being able to quickly grade an entire stack of papers! _________________________________________________________________________ Common Core State Standards for Mathematics addressed: Measurem

Your kids will love learning about food-related world records so much that they won’t even realize they are practicing math! This beginner set of task cards and printables is the perfect tool for building your students’ reasoning skills as they strengthen their understanding of the relationship between measurement units. No computation is required by these cards, making them the ideal way for students to practice with measurement units even if they are not yet fluent with multiplication by two

“What’s difference mean again?” Never hear this question again after your students work with this set of task cards and resource materials that focus on the vocabulary of computation – sum, difference, product, and quotient. Your students will be challenged to reason about number relationships as the work through the multiple choice and short answer questions on the 32 task cards in this set. Evaluate their understanding (or extend their practice!) with the four included assessment activities.

Build your students’ proficiency with solving two-step word problems with this set of task cards, resource materials, and assessment activities. With this “print-and-go” resource, you’ll have everything you need to develop, strengthen, and assess your students’ problem solving skills. NOTE: This set is a follow-up to Set A of my Step To It! task card & printables set, available here. All of the materials in this set are different from the materials in Set A. _________________________________

These three sets “I Have…Who Has?” cards and accompanying printables are everything you need to introduce, practice, and assess your students’ understanding of multiplicative comparisons! The 3 sets of cards will provide your students with varied practice with interpreting multiplication as a comparison. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their mastery of interpreting comparative situations) with the included activity sheets. With these resources, your students will grow stronger in th

The ten tasks in this set are the perfect way to build in your students the “habits of mind” of mathematically proficient thinkers while examining fractional parts of a number. The sequenced tasks in this set will provide you with an entire week’s worth of quality instructional materials – five instructional tasks and five follow-up assessment tasks, complete with administration guides, scoring guides, and other support materials – that will help your students explore with fractional parts of

Build your students’ proficiency with division with this set of task cards and resource materials that focus on interpreting area models that represent two-digit and three-digit division. Your students will be challenged to reason about number relationships as analyze the area models presented on the 32 task cards in this set. Evaluate their understanding (or extend their practice!) with the two included assessment activities. With this “print-and-go” resource, you’ll have everything you need

Help build your students’ proficiency with analyzing and interpreting whole number number lines with this set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards will provide your students with the necessary practice to build their ability to understand and use number lines. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the two included activity sheets. With these resources, your students will grow stronger in their understanding of number lines. Included: • graphic r

Review multiplication and area with this versatile (and free!) set of “I Have…Who Has?” cards, designed to suit both large groups and small groups. Common Core State Standards for Mathematics addressed: Measurement & Data (3.MD, 4.MD) • Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning. (3.MD.7b) • Apply the area and

Help your students practice evaluating and comparing expressions that use the exponent form of powers of 10 with this set of task cards and assessment activities. With 32 task cards, journal-sized reference sheet, and 2 assessment activities, you have everything you need in one “print-and-go” package. Included: • reference sheet • 32 task cards • task card answer sheet and key • 2 assessment activities About the Cards This set of cards was designed to help build a student's proficiency wi

Build in your students the “habits of mind” of mathematically proficient thinkers as they explore with fraction expression with this quick one-page assessment task. This free product is a sample task from the Finding Fraction of a Number set of my Mastering the Practices: Instruction & Assessment Tasks. I designed the tasks in this set as a way to have my students explore an area of mathematical content in a way consistent with the behaviors described by the eight Standards for Mathematical