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Calculator riddles are great for practicing numeracy skills, calculator practice, and critical thinking. Formatted as printable cards or as a list of riddles. Google doc format. 18 separate riddles.

Students will use their skills in operations, fractions, and measurement to design and purchase materials for a fish tank. "Imagine that your class has just been given a 30-gallon aquarium. You have been put in charge of buying  fish and decorations for the tank. You have $30 to spend on fish and another $30 to spend on decorations. There is information in this packet to help you choose your fish and tell you the things you need to know. Choose as many different kinds of fish as you can, and mak

So simple, but so effective! Challenge your students to create a specific, math-centered question based on any quantitative answer. For example, the answer is 46 cookies. What is the question? Or 125 elephants. Or 67 cents. You get the idea. Can be used for any operation, or a combination of them. Support, challenge, or enrichment; it's flexible enough to work with any type of student. Can be used for assessment of word problem solving ability or can be worked through together in a small group o

Promote critical thinking, inferencing, and awareness of global issues by providing one graph per day. Each slide shows a graphic of data, ranging from sports injuries to popular music to electricity generation to hurricane frequency, but without a caption. Ask students what they notice, what they wonder, what they guess the graphic is telling us. Great for current events, health, safety, politics, government discussions, etc! Eighteen different graphs! Answer keys are on hidden slides after eac

Simple! Set up an estimation station with either real objects or photos of objects (estimation180.com is great for this!). Hang this double-sided sign or put it on a clipboard, and you're all set. Do one estimation per week, and on Fridays reveal the answer and offer a prize to the closest estimator. Done!

Students practice finding, recording, and writing about angles they find around the school. Included is a sign you can put up on the bulletin board to display students' work.

Use this for your students and/or you to assess their math problem-solving abilities each week. Track progress and growth. Identify areas of need for reteaching. Lots of uses!

Help students practice all four operations in this luck and strategy game! Use of calculators is optional.

Have students input two addends of any size. Before solving, they must estimate. Afterwards, they reflect on how reasonable their estimates were.

Have you ever tried doing an "Estimation Station" in your classroom each week? It's a great skill for kids to develop, and it's fun, too! Use your own group of objects, or print out an image from estimation180.com or from anywhere your creativity takes you. Put the attached sheet on a clipboard next to it every Monday, and let the students make estimates throughout the week. On Friday, reveal the answer. It's that simple.

The most fun your students/children will have comparing fractions! All you need is one die of your choice and one of the game boards provided. Great fraction building and comparison practice in a fun game that they will want to play over and over!

The most fun your students/children will have doing addition AND rounding! All you need is one die of your choice and one of the game boards provided. Great addition and rounding practice in a fun game that they will want to play over and over! Reinforces place value, too!

The most fun your students/children will have doing addition! All you need is one die of your choice and one of the game boards provided. Great addition practice in a fun game that they will want to play over and over! Reinforces place value, too!

Each of the three levels of word problems feature the same context but different numbers for different challenges. Insert your name at the top, change the names of the teachers to match yours, and have fun! Tell them that you've been researching things about them, and this is what you found. Let them choose the right level for them or assign yourself. Engaging and interesting. Kids will eagerly get to work solving problems about their teachers. Talk about personalized learning :) 6 problems per

Each of the three levels of word problems feature the same context but different numbers for different challenges. Insert your name at the top, change the names of the students to match yours, and have fun! Tell them that you've been researching things about them, and this is what you found. Let them choose the right level for them or assign yourself. Engaging and interesting. Kids will eagerly get to work solving problems about themselves and their classmates. Talk about personalized learning :

Each of the three levels of word problems feature the same context but different numbers for different challenges. Insert your name at the top, change the names of the students to match yours, and have fun! Tell them that you've been researching things about them, and this is what you found. Let them choose the right level for them or assign yourself. Engaging and interesting. Kids will eagerly get to work solving problems about themselves and their classmates. Talk about personalized learning :

Each of the three levels of word problems feature the same context but different numbers for different challenges. Insert your name at the top, change the names of the students to match yours, and have fun! Tell them that you've been researching things about them, and this is what you found. Let them choose the right level for them or assign yourself. Engaging and interesting. Kids will eagerly get to work solving problems about themselves and their classmates. Talk about personalized learning :

Each of the three levels of word problems feature the same context but different numbers for different challenges. Insert your name at the top, change the names of the students to match yours, and have fun! Tell them that you've been researching things about them, and this is what you found. Let them choose the right level for them or assign yourself. Engaging and interesting. Kids will eagerly get to work solving problems about themselves and their classmates. Talk about personalized learning :

Inject some excitement into your math routine with this "official" letter from the Rocky Mountain Candy Company, who is doing market research and needs your students' help. Children are asked to find certain arrays to help the company package their caramels. Have your principal deliver the letter in an envelope you pre-printed and stamped to show how important it is. Collect your students' work and "mail" them to the company. Then, after a couple of months, reveal the reply to your students' sub

Two vacation challenges in which students must determine the best rental car deal. The first (A) is a challenge, the second (B) is more challenging.