Teach Classically

A cute activity where students build 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes with toothpicks and marshmallows. They can visually see the difference between a flat and solid shape, as well as compare number of vertices (corners) and edges (sides).

This is perfect for your moving your students through the entire concrete, pictorial, and abstract process of Singapore Math. Includes part-part-whole and number bond areas to use with manipulatives.

Here's a little chant to brighten up the lesson on comparing numbers!

Have students write their own math word problems to share with friends! This is both the planning and drafting portion of the process. The box at the left cut in half is for students to appropriately draw the part-part-whole model for their equation. I then let students write their problems in a book to have friends solve. They LOVE this activity!

Use this nifty poster to teach basic angles. I had the students use a paper fan that could stretch out to 180 degrees as we sang the song. They could see not only the angles, but the fact that 180 degrees is a half circle. This is a great resource for 3rd grade and a review for 4th graders.

Use this handy mat to teach your students about tens and ones place value with base ten blocks. You can also leave it in your math center in a sheet protector and have your students roll dice and fill out the form with a partner.

A math mat to teach multiplication as equal groups during the concrete portion of Singapore math. Use with any manipulatives.

Print this out to teach your kids the fun chant to memorize the doubles through 20!

Use this fun activity with your multiplication unit! This helped my second graders to understand arrays, repeated addition, and the communicative property of multiplication. It's a hands-on, tasty, and visual way to get those brain juices flowing. I used Cheerios for this activity- anything larger would limit your mulitplication fact choices. ;) Here's an example: Tell your class to build the number sentence 3 x 5. The students would take 5 Cheerios and put them in a row at the top of the first

Send your students on a little scavenger hunt during your measurement unit, rulers in hand.

Use this blank BINGO template to allow your students to write in either math facts or phonograms of your choosing (it's more of a Connect 4 kind of deal here to lessen the amount of writing the students need to do). The possibilities of options for this game are copious. :) Be sure to have the answers written on pieces of paper so as you call them out randomly, you can put them aside to check if the student really did get a Bingo.

Here is a fun game or activity that is like a word find! Students write multiplication or division facts horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and fill in the rest of the blanks with random numbers. They switch papers with a friend to find all the answers!