Rogue Algorithm

Challenge your students’ ability to the measure to the nearest inch and half-inch with these task cards designed to practice identifying the lengths of objects placed “off the zero” – lined up to a place other than the 0-inch mark on the ruler. The set includes 2 reference sheets, 32 task cards that progress in difficulty, and various response options: short answer, multiple choice, even construction of line plots. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the tw

Challenge your students’ ability to the measure to the nearest half-inch and quarter-inch with these task cards designed to practice identifying the lengths of objects placed “off the zero” – lined up to a place other than the 0-inch mark on the ruler. The set includes 2 reference sheets, 32 task cards that progress in difficulty, and various response options: short answer, multiple choice, even construction of line plots. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) wit

Looking for resources to help your students practice decomposing fractions? This set of task cards and printables provides everything you need in one “print-and-go” package. The 32 task cards, 2 graphic reference sheets, and 4 assessment activities are the perfect resource for building and evaluating your students’ understanding of fractional relationships. NOTE: This set of resources is available in a money-saving bundle with two other products that focus on decomposing fractions. The bundl

Strengthen your students’ understanding of volume concepts with this set of task cards and printables, the perfect print-and-go resource for finding the volume of irregular prisms. The 32 task cards and graphic reference sheet will provide your students with practice examining irregular prisms for their volume, and the scaffolded difficulty level will allow for easy differentiation. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the eight included assessment activitie

Help your students build a strong foundation in decimal concepts with this set of task cards and printables, the perfect print-and-go resource for beginning decimal concepts. The 32 task cards and graphic reference sheets will provide your students with practice identifying equivalent fractions and decimals represented by shaded tenths and hundredths grids. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the ten included assessment activities. With these resources, y

Do you have students who still are struggling to accurately subtract with regrouping, even after months (or years) of practice! Ditch the same old practice - which just reinforces the same old habits that your students have developed - for this set of task cards that focus on error analysis. The task cards, reference sheet, and assessment activities in this set are the perfect “print-and-go” resources for helping your students become more analytical about their application of the subtraction al

Do you have students who still are struggling to accurately multiply multi-digit numbers with the standard algorithm, even after weeks (or months) of practice? Ditch the same old practice - which just reinforces the same old habits that your students have developed - for this set of task cards that focus on error analysis. The task cards, reference sheet, and assessment activities in this set are the perfect “print-and-go” resources for helping your students become more analytical about their

These six self-checking riddles 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 and Operations in Base Ten (5.NBT) Understand the place value system. • Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 tim

Help build your students’ ability to apply fractional computation in real-world problems with this set of task cards & printables – all told, these resources include 42 different fraction-based story problems! The 32 task cards in this set present story problems that can be related to addition, subtraction, and multiplication with fractions. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the two included worksheets. With these resources, your students will grow s

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. ___________________________________________________

Help build your students' understanding of prime and composite numbers with this set of 32 task cards and printables. Math Common Core State Standards addressed – 4.OA.4 – Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is prime or composite. Included in this product are: • student journal insert (two versions: color and black & white) • 32 task cards • student answer sheet • answer key • prime & composite activity sheet (two-sided) • scoring guide for activity sheet Use the graphic

Build your students' understanding of how shapes can be partitioned into halves and fourths/quarters with this set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards will provide your students with the practice examining squares, rectangles, circles, and other shapes that are partitioned into two or four equal and unequal shares. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the four included assessment activities. With this set of print-and-go resources, your students

Multiplying makes things bigger, right? That's what my kids always think – as I’m sure yours do as well. Of course, this causes quite a problem when they start to work with multiplying fractions, where the “rules” they have learned for multiplication don’t seem to apply! This set of task cards and printables focuses on how the size of factors determines the size of the product, and it provides everything you need in one “print-and-go” package. The 32 task cards, 2 graphic reference sheets,

Lay the foundation for finding the volume of rectilinear prisms with the set of task cards, reference materials, and assessment activities. Build your students’ ability to reason about the lengths of edges on irregular prisms with the 32 task cards in this set. Extend their practice (or assess their understanding) with the four included assessment activities. The materials in this set will strengthen your students’ reasoning skills and build a strong foundation for their later work with volu

This globe-trotting set of task cards will help your kids build a stronger understanding of rounding whole numbers while teaching them facts about the world’s rivers, mountains, oceans, and more! The 32 task cards, 2 journal inserts, and 3 activity sheets in this set are the perfect tools for helping your students practice rounding whole numbers through the ten thousands place. Common Core State Standards for Mathematics addressed: Numbers and Operations in Base Ten (4.NBT) Generalize place

Help build your students’ ability to apply fractional computation in real-world problems with this print-and-go set of task cards & printables – all told, these resources include 42 different fraction-based story problems! The 32 task cards in this set present story problems that can be related to addition & subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators and multiplication of fractions by whole numbers. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) wit

Looking for a kid-friendly way to help your fifth graders practice using exponents to represent powers of ten? When I first saw that I had to teach the use of exponents to denote powers of ten, which is part of the Grade 5 Common Core Math Standards, most of the materials that I found were aimed at middle- and high-schoolers. I needed resources that were clear, engaging, and developmentally appropriate for my elementary-age students, so I designed the materials in this set to fill that need.

Build your students’ proficiency with multi-digit multiplication with this set of task cards and resource materials that focus on using the area model of multiplication to multiply two two-digit numbers. 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 four included assessment activities. With this “print-and-go” resource, you’ll have ev

Build your students’ understanding of multiplicative and additive comparisons with this set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards in this set will allow your students to practice distinguishing between story problems that are best represented with multiplication & division equations and ones that show the characteristics of addition & subtraction. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their mastery of interpreting comparative situations) with the included activity sheet. With th

Introduce your students to fractional names for whole numbers with this set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards, 2 graphic reference sheets, and 2 assessment activities in this set present visual models of improper fractions and whole numbers, making them the perfect starting point for building (and assessing) your students’ understanding of the relationship between whole numbers and fractions. ___________________________________________________________________________ Common Co