Sunshine Math

This activity gets the students up out of their seats and helps them learn to recognize and name the properties of operations. The properties included are the commutative, associative, identity, inverse, zero product, and distributive. Groups of students get a set of cards with the different words used to create the names of the properties. The teacher presents an example of a property. The students must hold a word and line themselves up to create the correct name. Points can be awarded fo

Make ordering integers more fun and entertaining! Included are 4 pages of integers from -24 to 23 with an additional page of absolute value. There are also 2 pages of instructions so you can snapshot to your presentation or print out for your students. How to Use:- Practice after a lesson - Stations as a review - Do now or lesson starter to spiral review If you like this game and want harder numbers, check out my Rational Numbers War resource. It's the same rules! You might also find somethin

Join the GEMDAS revolution! This poster breaks apart the pieces of GEMDAS into the 4 steps used to simplify an expression. My hope is to replace PEMDAS in all grades and schools in America. *If you'd like this poster with fewer G options, let me know.*

Need a fun way to compare rational numbers? Try the game of War! It provides a quick, entertaining way to compare rational numbers. This resource gives you 48 rational number cards with an additional 12 cards with absolute value. Also included are directions pages that you can snapshot to your presentation or print out for students. How to Use:- Practice after a lesson - Stations as a review - Do now or lesson starter to spiral review Note: The fractions are limited to denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5

Some education standards emphasize representing equations with manipulatives, like algebra tiles. This worksheet is one way to assess whether students understand how to solve a 2-step equation using those tiles. Students simply draw the tiles onto a balance to represent the steps required for solving an equation. This sheet is doesn't have an equation written in it because you might want to use it multiple times. I have, however, included an example sheet, in case you're curious about what a

Do your students need more reinforcement for the order of operations (GEMDAS)? This might be a worksheet for you! It assigns colors to the different steps of the order of operations so each step is highlighted by a color. I used this in the beginning of my career when my students didn't have to complete very difficult order of operation puzzles. I think it's very useful to add color to what is normally black and white!

My coworkers and I have embarked on a mission to change PEMDAS to GEMDAS since the upper levels of math include more than just parentheses as a grouping symbol. That being said, I made this KWL chart to use with my 8th grade students to introduce the new anagram. It was a great conversation!

When I teach the order of operations, I spend a couple of days just focusing on the order rather than the answer. For this activity, I print out a set of cards for a group of 4-5 students. I put a problem on the board and the students must line themselves up with cards in their hands that indicate the order needed to solve the problem. You can either go to the next problem or let them solve the problem using the order they indicated.

This is a short, 5-question exit pass that requires students to compare some numbers and order others. There are two copies on one sheet so paper isn't wasted.