Rogue Algorithm

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

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

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

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

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.

Help your kids build a stronger understanding of place value relationships with this set of task cards and printables. The Grade 5 Common Core Standards in the domain of Numbers and Operations in Base Ten focus on building students’ understanding of how the value of digits in one place compares to the value of digits one place to the right and one place to the left, using both whole numbers and decimals. The task cards and activity sheets in this set are the perfect tool for helping your stud

Build your students’ understanding of perimeter and area with this set of task cards and printables. The 44 task cards in this set can perform double duty – providing practice with finding both perimeter and area of rectangular figures. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their mastery of perimeter and area) with the two included worksheets. With these resources, your students will grow stronger in their understanding of these key measurement concepts. Common Core State Standards fo

Help build your students’ ability to find a fraction of a number with this beginner set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards in this set present students with visual models of fraction of a number. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the two included worksheets. With these resources, your students will grow stronger in their understanding of this key fractional concept. Included: • 32 task cards • 8 self-checking "answer cards" • graphic refe

Build your students understanding of the difference between dividing a whole number by a unit fraction and multiplying a whole number by a unit fraction with this set of task cards and printables. The double set of task cards presents problem situations and visual models and provide opportunities for analysis of the models, written reflection, and practice with varied ways to represent multiplication and division situations. With this “print-and-go” resource, you’ll have everything you need to

Help your students build a strong foundation in volume concepts with this set of task cards and printables, the perfect print-and-go resource for beginning volume concepts. The 32 task cards and graphic reference sheet will provide your students with practice counting and computing with cubes to find the volume of prisms and irregular figures, and the varied question types on the cards develop their ability to reason about volume. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mast

Looking for a fun, engaging way for your students to practice multi-digit multiplication with the standard algorithm? Ditch the worksheets and have your students dive into the challenge of these task cards, designed to build reasoning about the multiplication algorithm. The task cards and assessment activities in this set are the perfect “print-and-go” resources for helping your students become more proficient in their multiplication of multi-digit whole numbers. Numbers and Operations in Bas

Help your students apply and extend their ability to find a fraction of a number with this set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards in this set present students a variety of multiple choice questions that relate to finding a fraction of a number. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the two included worksheets. With these resources, your students will grow stronger in their understanding of this key fractional concept. Included: • 32 task card

Solving word problems that require interpreting remainders was always a challenge for my students, but once they had to start working with problems where the dividend was smaller than the divisor, such as 4 ÷ 16, or where the remainder had to be written as a fraction, such as 31 ÷ 4 = 7 ¾ , then things became really difficult. This set of task cards and printables are designed to help students build proficiency with problems such as these. With this “print-and-go” resource, you’ll have everythin

Looking for a kid-friendly way to help your fifth graders to extend their understanding of the use of 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, all 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 t

Are you looking to build your students’ flexibility with numbers? The task cards and printables in this set are the perfect tools for challenge your students to consider number relationships as they interpret addition and subtraction expressions and equations. Common Core State Standards for Mathematics addressed: Operations & Algebraic Thinking (5.OA) Write and interpret numeric expressions. • Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions

Help build your students’ proficiency with adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators with this set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards will provide your students with the necessary practice to build skills with addition and subtraction with unlike denominators. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the four included activity pages. With these resources, your students will grow stronger in their understanding of key fractional co

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 prisms. The 32 task cards and graphic reference sheet will provide your students with practice examining and analyzing rectangular prisms, and the scaffolded difficulty level will allow for easy differentiation. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the included assessment activities. With these r

Help build your students’ understanding of two-dimensional shapes and how they relate to each other 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 reason about two-dimensional figures. The 3 reference sheets will prove a handy tool to your students as they work on the cards - or any task related to shape classification. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the 4 in

Help build your students’ proficiency with regrouping and renaming when adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators with this set of task cards and printables. The 32 task cards will provide your students with the necessary practice to build skills with addition and subtraction with unlike denominators. Extend your students’ practice (or assess their level of mastery) with the four included worksheets. With these resources, your students will grow stronger in their understan