The Math Spot

These kindergarten, first, second and third grade math intervention assessment checklists are designed to start your math year off on the right foot. Each checklist names the math skills that are absolutely critical that students should have mastered in the previous grade level. By understanding which of your students have and have not mastered these skills, you will be able to form your first math intervention small groups of the year and hit the ground running! Does another beginning of the

This free summer math activity will keep your kids engaged and thinking as they practice the partners of ten. This open ended task poses the question "Your watermelon has 10 seeds. Some are black and some are white. What could the watermelon look like?". Multiple options of recording forms make differentiating this open ended task a snap! Included you will find: Task with blank recording formTask with blank watermelons recording formTask with blank watermelons AND space for an equation recor

This deck of 10 multiple choice BOOM Cards is a fun and engaging way for your students to practice adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators with visual support. This mini-deck of 10 cards is a sample of a (much) larger set of 80 cards! The full set includes 20 cards each for adding with like denominators, adding with unlike denominators, subtracting with like denominators and subtracting with unlike denominators so you are able to differentiate according to your studen

Numberless word problems help students to focus on the action and context of a story problem rather than being "number pluckers"! Your students will be successful in solving addition and subtraction to 100 word problems through this thoughtful Christmas word problems! This projectable word problem works in a sequence. The first slide gives the students a context with no numbers at all. The second slide adds just a bit of information by adding in one number amount. The third slide adds in the r

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I am bringing you 5 new free resources this week. Follow along to grab them all! Each day will be a new resource that supports math instruction in grades K-5. Some days include resources for all grade levels while other days are more targeted toward a specific group. I truly hope you enjoy and are able to use these items to make your spring a bit lighter! If you would like to follow along this week join the newsletter HERE!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I am bringing you 5 new free resources this week. Follow along to grab them all! Each day will be a new resource that supports math instruction in grades K-5. Some days include resources for all grade levels while other days are more targeted toward a specific group. I truly hope you enjoy and are able to use these items to make your spring a bit lighter! If you would like to follow along this week join the newsletter HERE!

These no-prep  Earth Day math activities are perfect for first graders practicing place value skills! If you are looking for a set of Earth Day math worksheets that won't put you behind on math curriculum, all you need to do is print and your students will be all set with interactive math activities. The skills reinforced through these math activities include:  ♻️Comparing 2-digit numbers to a benchmark number ♻️Building 2-digit numbers from tens and ones ♻️Using < , > , and = signs to

Numberless word problems help students to focus on the action and context of a story problem rather than being "number pluckers"! Your students will be successful in solving addition and subtraction to 20 word problems through this thoughtful Christmas word problems! This projectable word problem works in a sequence. The first slide gives the students a context with no numbers at all. The second slide adds just a bit of information by adding in one number amount. The third slide adds in the re

First grade students and math centers go together like peas and carrots! This free place value math center encourages hands on learning as your students match the two digit number to a place value drawing and build the numbers using hands-on materials. I have also included a recording sheet so that your students are accountable to the time spent on their math center! This resource includes: A student friendly instruction pageHands-on materials for a matching math centerA recording sheet Are yo

Fact families for addition and subtraction do not come easy to all of our students! This free lesson will build the foundation your first and second graders need to understand how addition and subtraction are related. This lesson includes a teaching activity, independent practice math center and an exit ticket for assessment. This lesson is part of a larger 5 day unit including pre and post assessment, 5 lessons, 5 independent practice activities, and daily exit tickets for progress monitoring.

If fact fluency is a goal for your students this school year, you need to spend time in fact families! These two free fact family activities will bring related facts to life for your students! How often have we found that our students are getting to be pretty proficient when it comes to addition but their subtraction facts are just not clicking? Or how many times have you had a student who can solve multiplication problems in a snap but when it comes to division they are skip counting on their

If your 2nd grade students are staying close to home due to the important precautions being taken against the Corona Virus you may be looking for a set of math activities to send home that doesn't involve sitting in front of a screen These fun activities provide important daily math practice that your students need. Each day they will choose an activity such as: Let’s clean out the sock drawer. Determine whether you have an even or odd number of socks in your drawer. Create a $10 store in your

If your 1st grade students are staying close to home due to the important precautions being taken against the Corona Virus you may be looking for a set of math activities to send home that doesn't involve sitting in front of a screen These fun activities provide important daily math practice that your students need. Each day they will choose an activity such as: Help with the laundry! Make tallies to show how many shirts, pants, underpants, socks and miscellaneous items are in the load.You’re