Teaching Interactively

Place Value Bingo! This is a great game for reviewing place value with students and for helping students become more confident in matching word form with standard form. I use the last sheet to keep track of which number/letter combinations I have called out. Normally, I will highlight or cross out the combinations I have already used so that I don't repeat anything. I have 10 different boards on here, but more can easily be added by cutting apart a board and gluing the numbers on different

Both Christopher Columbus and John Cabot thought they had made it to Asia. It can be very difficult to know where you are without a map. This activity enables students to experience how difficult that task was for the early explorers and why there was such confusion. In this mapmaking challenge, students will be blindfolded and will need to create a map using their senses just as the early explorers needed to do. Includes a reflection paper for assessment.

Played just like regular tic-tac-toe, this version helps students practice their adding and subtracting of mixed numbers. This is a great activity for early finishers or math centers. My students always are begging me to play math games! Please rate this product if you enjoyed using it!

This handout works well as a way for students to take notes and illustrate them as they learn. For each term, the definition is given and an area where the student may illustrate the definition is provided. Terms included: point, line, line segment, midpoint, ray, plane, parallel lines, intersecting lines, and perpendicular lines. I have students look at the definition and make a guess about what they think it should look like. Then we discuss any differences in their drawings. This provide

This is an entire lesson that is taught in five stations. Students can rotate through the stations to discover if levers really make work easier. The challenge at the end was so fun for my students - they couldn't stop talking about how the smallest one could lift the teacher using a lever!

A simple and fun bookmark to help students learn the helping verbs. For best results, print double sided and laminate.

Did you ever wonder why we picked the magic number of 3.14? I never understood where it came from growing up. This activity allows students to explore the relationship between the circumference and the diameter so that they can discover pi! Students will measure different objects and be able to see that for ANY circle, the circumference is always about 3.14 times the diameter.