SamizdatMath

From the same soul that brought you the one & only Zombie Fraction activity, here is an interactive activity you can throw onto your SmartBoard (or whatever will import their files.) Just pop a fraction into the upper left corner, tap on the zombie, and faster than you can say "must ..... eat.......brains......" you'll see 6 different incomplete fractions appear around the zombie. Your students can now complete each of the fractions, but beware: one of them is a "zombie" and can't be completed!

See the guy shouting in the upper left hand corner? Tap his face and the receipt will show up with an amount between 1¢ and $9.99; you can then show how much money you paid, and then how much change to give back. Great for whole class work, direct teaching, or playing "store." Another great interactive SmartBoard Activity from SamizdatMath!

This may be the wildest activity you EVER do in your classroom with a SmartBoard...... Load this into your SmartBoard, enter a fraction, and hit the "lump o' coal." Instantly before your eyes 6 fractions with missing numerators or denominators will appear! Your students have to figure out what those missing numerators and denominators are, but be careful: one of them can't be completed (it's the lump o' coal!)

Addition Puzzles that Practice - Complete with SmartBoard Module! Note: this is a "zip" file that contains both a PDF and SmartBoard file: when you expand it, you will end up with two separate files, one with the PDF of "Reindeer Rescue" for you to print and use, as well as a SmartBoard "notebook" file that you can use interactively. "Reindeer Rescue" is a truly "hands on" approach to working with addition and subtraction, with links to patterns and problem solving. The basic puzzle is simple:

By the Digits is a fully interactive activity to teach your students about place value, regrouping, addition and estimation. Simply tap the "round" number and a random number will appear in the "digit" column. Write that digit in the ones or tens place. Continue for 7 rounds, add up the ones and tens and see how close to 100 you got. This comes in a "demo" version, which is a single board, and a "competition version" where two teams can compete against one another (mad shoutout to Karol who sug

"By The Digits" is a game I developed where students take get a series of numbers and decide whether to place them in the tenths or hundredths place; at the end of 7 rounds, they add up the tenths and hundredths to get as close to 1.00 as possible. This is an interactive version for the SmartBoard. Pressing each digit under "round" selects a new digit from 0 - 9. After pressing the button, write down whether the number should go in the tenth or hundredths place. At the end of 7 rounds, add up t

Here's a new version of this SmartBoard activity: the idea is to teach subtraction skills by "jumping" from one number to another number through smaller steps. Press the button and two numbers will appear in each box on the number line. Your kids can grab one of the little figures on the size and show the different "jumps" and label their size to get from one number to another, which shows their "difference" better know as the answer to a Subtraction problem! Check this out - it's free! What d