Teaching with My Hands

These are bracelets with multiplication facts. I used them with my students to practice their facts to get ready for our fact tests. Note: x0 is not included because the rule of x0 makes learning those facts easier than the other facts. Enjoy!

This worksheet allows students to practice their shape identifying skills while making adorable animal shapes. Students make tangram animals and then count the shapes they used. If you look online you can find many templates for making animals out of tangram shapes. If you have technology, you can have students take a picture of their animals and upload to a shared space (We uploaded to our SeeSaw app.).

This resource is fun way to compare fractions while eating a favorite candy. Students open one roll of Smarties and count them up. They then create Smarties fractions and compare them by following the directions on the sheet.

This resource allows students to practice comparing fractions with a partner by using playing cards as fractions. 1. Break students into partners. 2. Separate out the face cards. You won't need them. 3. Choose which side of the game board each student will have. Students flip over two cards each and place them atop the card game board, moving the bigger cards to the bottom of each fraction. 4. Choose which worksheet you'd like for them to use (24 problems with minimal space for working out the

This review game is a fun way to get your students out of their seats and reviewing measurement word problems. After making the board with holes in it, hang it from somewhere that will allow the planes to fly through it. Then make a few airplanes. Students throw the airplane through the holes and try to earn points. If they miss, it goes to the next student or team. Once they make it through a hole, they answer the corresponding question. Play continues while students/teams try to earn the mos

This is a fun independent activity that allows students to practice basic arithmetic while graphing. Students role three die together and add. Students color in a square for the sum. They should role the die 20 times to finish out their graph. Once completed, students answer 10 questions about their graph on the back of the paper.

Using this resource, students practice multiplying multiples of 10. Students cut out the two circles of numbers and place the small circle atop the big circle and attach a brad and a paper clip (if you want). Then students spin the top circle and make matches to create an equation. They continue to spin until all 20 problems are filled in and complete.

This resource is a fun way to practice putting fractions on a number line. There are three options for using this resource: - Use the app Skitch to draw the number lines and shapes directly onto the picture of Frank and save as a photo. - Draw the lines/fractions/shapes on the picture inside of a page protector and then take a photo to add to a PicCollage and then print. - Draw the lines/fractions/shapes on the picture of Frank as a worksheet. All three versions are included and have direction

This worksheet asks students to match the 2-d shape to its name. There are 4 shapes that ned to be cut out and categorized: triangle, rectangle, hexagon, and trapezoid. I do not own any of the images. They were found online and used here.