Simplify Teaching

Convert Capacity units at home. Take home project to find 10 items in your refrigerator or pantry. Look at how it is labeled, i.e. 1 gallon milk. Convert it to another unit, i.e. 4 quarts. Conversion chart is included.

Teaching adding and subtracting money. Become the waiter/waitress at a restaurant and add your bill and make change.

Use this activity for parent open house or as a class project in Math. Have students answer the questions. Cover each answer with a post-it note that has a math problem on it. Have parent or partner figure out the answers and check under the post-it note to see if they are correct. A great way to get to know each other using math skills. You can set the directions for the class level math skills (addition/subtraction only, addition/subtraction/multiplication of single digits, etc.)

To help a student refocus on what they should be doing, copy this stop sign on cardstock and pass out when necessary. Collect at the end of the class. It is a quite warning but it can be very effective.

Let students create their own numbers to practice writing expanded and word form.

Evaluation sheet for 4th graders to use for 1st quarter. Can show this to parents at parent/teacher conference.