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Do your students have "mad math skills" but struggle applying them in word problems? The ability to visualize math makes word problems more understandable and less intimidating. This interactive PowerPoint builds foundational skills in relating the text found in word problems to the visual representation used to solve them. Students progress from developing familiarity with vocabulary and math terms to solving word problems in visual form. Both part-part-whole and comparison concepts are pres

**This product was updated on 2-2-16 with a new format. This file is now a zip file with two separate components to avoid any confusion using the animations and accessing the reproducibles.** Have your students "go wild" with this activity pack designed to increase basic addition fact fluency. The animal-themed activity pack uses the well-known Beanie Babies toys as visual aids for modeling mental math strategies for addition facts to 20. Visualization of math ideas strengthens the link betwe

Do your students have trouble visualizing math and recalling basic math facts? Your students can build better math foundations by completing the activities in this Easel resource focusing on bar models. Based on Singapore Math Principles and designed for Standards-Based instruction, these activities focus on the development of part part whole concepts and logical/inferential thinking for students in grades 1, 2 and 3. Using the Easel platform, students will “see” the relationship between nu