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Week long (1 hour a day) or One day activity that will keep them engaged no matter what day its done, whether close to a holiday, a break, or summer! This is a whodunnit with murders, but all the murders are tame (no blood or gore involved). I have completed the activity with 3rd, 4th, and 6th grade. Others, who have commented, have done it with 5th, 7th, and 8th. Who is committing the murders at Malone Manor? That's what your students will need to figure out! Students will be reading: looking

This is an engaging game to play to review multiplying and dividing decimals. Students will complete activities to earn question cards and work through road blocks and a detour just like in the TV show! Includes: -What operation with decimals (word problems) -Determining how many decimal places when multiplying -Multiplication with decimals word problems -Division with decimals word problems Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart

This is a fun way to review adding and subtracting with regrouping. Students will work as teams to play through the amazing race road blocks and detour. They will be learning, working together, and reviewing strategies, but enjoy themselves while playing the games. Great for 2nd and 3rd grade or as a 4th grade review of regrouping! Students will: -play three games to earn question cards -add and subtract using regrouping -identify facts in two fact families (detour) Like this product? Follow

In this sub packet, which you can prepare ahead of time, your students will be detectives solving puzzles to figure out what happened to you. They will never be able to guess what this crazy activity leads them to. After solving six puzzles which include reading (fiction and nonfiction), math (multiplication, addition, subtraction), grammar, and a mystery word, they will get their answers and then write about how they think the whole thing happened. Also, it is completely gender neutral, so kids

Do your students have a knowledge of using and interpreting input/output tables to help them survive the challenges in this game? Students will compete in three rounds. In the first, students will work in groups of four, in the second, students will compete in partners, and in the third, students will compete by themselves. They will complete a challenge in order to earn input/output challenge cards and then will work through the cards. As students finish a round, they will receive points to k

This is a quick and fun review for math operations. Can be done before a unit or in the beginning of the year. It will get kids thinking about the vocabulary words associated with addition and subtraction as well as multiplication and division. Includes: Addition and subtraction sort Multiplication and division sort Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart button at the Made by The Teaching Twins. Look for the STAR and click on Follow Me

Test review Amazing Race style. This is a perimeter, area, and volume review product that will keep your students engaged while they practice their test taking strategies and practice working problems carefully. They head to four destinations (perimeter, area, volume, and a mixture of all three), they complete an activity to gain question cards, and answer those questions. They also participate in a detour just like in the TV show. In the detour, they will match simple descriptions of 3D sha

I have included 36 mystery numbers for older elementary students. They will use place value, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction to discover the digits that make up numbers between 5 digits and 8 digits long. I use this as a weekly early finishers activity. If they are done with something, they will do the mystery number. Each number has three clues. I put the 1st up on Monday, the 2nd up on Tuesday, and the 3rd up on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday students have access to all cl

Give each student a Guess the Operation card. They will read the word problem and determine the operation they would need to perform to solve the problem. They will find a partner, test each other, and then trade cards. They will then get another partner and repeat the process. Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart button at the Made by The Teaching Twins. Look for the STAR and click on Follow Me right next to it. I hope you are able to

These test and trade cards are great for test preparation. They will compare their rectangles (sometimes using a key) to see who has the larger area. 16 cards in this set ask what is the area using a key to see what one square is equivalent to. 16 cards in this set are rectangles with lengths and widths. After giving students a card, they will partner up, test each other, an then trade cards. Once they finish with one partner, they find another and repeat the process. Like this product? Foll

Do your students have enough knowledge of converting customary units of measurement to help them survive the challenges in this game? Students will compete in three rounds. In the first, students will work in groups of four, in the second, students will compete in partners, and in the third, students will compete by themselves. They will complete a challenge in order to earn converting units of measurement challenge cards and then will work through the cards. As students finish a round, they wil

Here are 4 different bar graphs with four math questions each. Some of these questions are multi-step problems requiring students to complete two operations to find the answer. All four bar graphs are double bar graphs that students need to interpret to answer the questions.

Great for STAAR or state test review! Questions covering word problems, money, in and out tables, estimation/rounding (in word problems), measurement, bar graphs, geometry, comparing numbers, number lines, time This mystery clue activity has students completing 35 math problems to locate letters on a clue key that are part word clues. The word clues will let them unscramble a sentence. They complete the first concept and need to present the unscrambled word to get the next concept. They keep

This is a differentiated unit to use in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade. Pretest students beforehand to gauge their skills. Then place them in one of three groups. Teach skills and give students worksheets to practice daily for two weeks. The first week is single step problems and the second week is multi-step problems. Finally, give them the post test. Group 1: adding and subtracting word problems Group 2: mostly multiplying and dividing (1 digit divisors) word problems Group 3: mixed harder problems D

This is a fun way to bring in the holiday season with some math word problems. Students will solve 6 word problems which will lead them to clues about how to color the elf outline. At the end, students will have cute elves all colored. Your students will love this activity!

Great for STAAR or state test review! Students will love to play this game to practice concepts for the upcoming test. Covers a wide range of topics in 80 questions. One student will take the "hot seat" as the 1. They will compete against the class. As long as the 1 continues to get questions correct, they knock out (but not really, everyone participates the whole time- using in and out cards) their classmates that answer incorrectly. Their goal is to knock out all of their classmates. Lik

Do your students have a knowledge of division to help them survive the division challenges in this game? Students will compete in three rounds. In the first, students will work in groups of four, in the second, students will compete in partners, and in the third, students will compete by themselves. They will complete a physical challenge in order to earn division challenge cards and then will work through the cards. As students finish a round, they will receive points to keep track of their s

Want a fun way to practice division facts with a Halloween theme? Well this pack comes with four spooky characters that need to be colored. Figure out the answer to the division problem and that will tell you what color to color that section. Includes: 4 characters that need to be colored by figuring out the division fact. Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart button at the Made by The Teaching Twins. Look for the STAR and click on F

Want a fun way to practice division facts with a winter theme? Well this pack comes with four winter pages that need to be colored. Figure out the answer to the division problem and that will tell you what color to color that section. Includes: 4 pages that need to be colored by figuring out the division fact. Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart button at the Made by The Teaching Twins. Look for the STAR and click on Follow Me right

In this fun activity, students will be converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers and use a clue key to come up with the answer to the joke. There are two jokes, both have 20 problems. The jokes are below. One: Q: Why do the French like to eat snails? A: They don't like fast food! Two: Q: Why did the fisherman put peanut butter in the sea? A: To go with the jellyfish! Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart button at the