Tasks & Talks

Combine these 2 low-floor, high-ceiling activities to spark flexible thinking and an understanding of number sense. Start your math class with a warmup activity from the image talk, followed by story mats and open questions to have your students engaged in contextualized activities that foster a sense of ownership of the learning. Students at any level of understanding can engage with the math in these activities and before you know it, they will start to see math everywhere in their daily liv

This product includes 24 open question task cards and a variety of story mats and counting pictures. Open questions using story mats provides an opportunity for low-floor high-ceiling activities. These questions and mats were developed to provide an entry point for most students while fostering problem solving skills. The bundle includes 16 task cards. Open questions have multiple solution paths. Prompt your students to provide a variety of correct responses and talk about their solutions by ask

This resource contains 3 art lessons and 4 writing activities to go along with the book "Snowmen at Night".

Your students will love this Number Sense Routine! These 11 Math Image Talks are a low-floor, high-ceiling warm-up for your math class. Students of all levels can participate in a mathematical discussion prompted by things that they see in their everyday life. Connecting math to real-world experiences engages students in seeing math all around them.

This resource accompanies the book Perfect Square by Micheal Hall. Includes class book template, 2 art activities, reader response cards and leveled writing templates.

Students learn while having fun playing this numbers to 10 game. Your classroom will need to be equipped with a balance scale and unifix cubes to play. Simply cut out the cards, give half of the set to each student and watch them go! Students will be learning number sense, part-part whole relationships and comparing numbers while playing this game.

These reproducible go well with any of the No, David! books. Includes art activity and templates, writing templates, readers response cards and sight word memory game. All templates include an option to customize leveled activities for students.

This product includes a parent letter, brainstorming templates and multi-leveled writing templates. This product goes with any of the Chris VanDusen books "If I Built a...". Enjoy this engaging STEAM activity with your primary class.

Students will love creating their own Leprechaun Traps after getting some inspiration from the book: How to Catch a Leprechaun. Students have a chance to plan, create and write in this wonderful STEAM activity.