Tara Carey

My class recently completed a historical fiction unit and I was unable to find any discussion questions/comprehension questions to give my students to use with the book, "The Arrow over the Door," by Joseph Bruchac. I hope that you find this helpful if your class is reading this book!

Memorizing multiplication facts can be time consuming and tedious. Students need to memorize their basic multiplication facts, or they will fall further behind when the material gets more challenging. I created this packet to help my students who have not yet mastered their multiplication tables. I wanted to create something similar to "Rainbow Writing" with sight words, but for the multiplication tables. I have a page dedicated to each times table. I give students one or two times tables a

This year, my students have been struggling with simplifying fractions. I created this packet to break down this challenging topic. The first page can be used as a personal anchor chart to remind them of the steps to simplify fractions. Other pages focus on specific patterns in numbers I wanted my students to recognize when they simplify fractions. For example, a numerator and denominator with two even numbers can be simplified by 2. At the end of the packet, I included a small quiz that ca

The students in my class have been struggling with simplifying fractions. I created this as an intervention for my lower students to help them get used to listing the factors of a given number. The students must list the factors in order, and then identify if the number is prime, composite or neither.

I created this as an extension activity for my math lessons. My students love creating their own anchor charts and posters to demonstrate their knowledge of a topic. I believe that sometimes, students can learn better from their peers than they can from me. Their peers may explain things in a way that makes more sense to them. The math concept poster challenges students to make their own "anchor chart" of that day's lesson. Students must provide a title, a definition (in their own words), a