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

These dual-purpose Common Core ELA task cards allow students to practice two different ELA Common Core Reading Standards for Literature. One standard is specific to grade 4, while the other standard is part of the CC ELA Atandards for Grades 3, 4, and 5. • Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are written, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. (RL.4.6) • Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. (RL.3.4,

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

This set of Common Core ELA task cards and printables allow students to practice one of the key ELA Common Core Reading Standards for Informational Text. • Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. (RI.4.5) Included in this set: • graphic reference sheet (color and grayscale), sized for student journals • 32 task cards • task card answer sheet and key • 2 two-page activit

Help your students become better writers by building their ability to recognize and use concrete language, a key element in the narrative writing standards in the CCSS for ELA. Common Core ELA State Standards addressed: • Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. (W.4.3d, W.5.3d) • Choose words and phrases for effect. (L.3.3a) • Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely. (L.4.3a) • Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and

Multiplying makes things bigger, right? This is 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, including a game and printables, focuses on how the size of factors determines the size of the product. The game will keep your kids engaged while providing them valuable practice with reasoning about the size

This bundle of activity cards and printables will help your students become masters of fraction decomposition. The I Have…Who Has cards, task cards, game, reference sheets, and assessment activities will keep your kids active and engaged as they explore with the different ways that fractions can be decomposed. _______________________________________________________________________________ Common Core State Standards for Mathematics addressed: Numbers and Operations – Fractions (4.NF) Build f

Multiplying makes things bigger, right? This is 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 – including an instructional ppt, 32 task cards, reference sheets, and assessment activities – is the perfect introduction to the concept of multiplication as scaling, and it provides everything you need in one “p

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,

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

These seven self-checking riddles focusing on adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators 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! NOTE: This product is available as part of my Adding & Subtracting Unlike Denominators bundle. This bundle includes three dif

Multiplying makes things bigger, right? This is 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 bundle – including an instructional ppt, 2 sets of 32 task cards, reference sheets, and assessment activities, and an interactive ppt quiz – is a comprehensive resource designed to introduce, build, and extend to the

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

Build students' understanding of customary and metric units of length with these 32 winter-themed task cards. These cards, and the included graphic resources, will help your students practice identifying equivalent measures and better understand the relationship between inches, feet, and yards and millimeters, centimeters, and meters. The games address Common Core Math Standards in Grades 4 and 5 within the domain of Measurement and Data – • Know relative sizes of measurement units within on

Use these hundreds charts and posters to help your students learn the prime and composite numbers through 100 and remember the characteristics of prime and composite numbers, addressing one of the math standards in the Grade 4 Math Common Core State Standards Math Common Core State Standards addressed – 4.OA.4 – Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is prime or composite. Each chart contains definitions of prime and composite numbers, as well a

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

Build your students proficiency with prime and composite numbers with the engaging materials in this bundle. These resources have been designed to address one of the math standards in the Grade 4 Math Common Core State Standards. Math Common Core State Standards addressed – 4.OA.4 – Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is prime or composite. NOTE: This bundle combines resources that are available separately – Prime and Composite Numbers 100s Charts and Posters Prime or C

Help your students become proficient with equivalent fractions with this set of task cards and printables. Fraction equivalency is a major concept in the Common Core State Standards for Math in the intermediate grades, and a strong understanding of fraction equivalence lays the foundation for addition and subtraction of fraction with unlike denominators in fifth grade. The task cards, journal inserts, and assessment activities in this set will provide your students with practice with key fractio

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! The two-sided activity sheets focus on algebraic expressions that use parentheses and allow students to evaluate numerical expressions. This is a key standard in the Grade 5 Math Common Core State Standards domain o