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This is a fun activity that can be done in groups or independently to prepare for the M-Step math test. Students need to solve the problems and use the answer key to figure out the letter that goes into the answer of the joke. My kids beg for these. They add a bit of fun to boring test prep. This comes with two separate sheets. Joke one: Question: What animal cheats at exams? Answer: The cheetah! Joke two: Question: How do bees get to school? Answer: By school buzz!

In this fun activity, students will be adding and subtracting mixed numbers in word problems and use a clue key to come up with the answer to the joke. These required regrouping and ungrouping, but all have common denominators. There are two jokes, both have 19 problems. The jokes are below. One: Q: Why did the math book look so sad? A: It had so many problems Two: Q: Why did the girl wear glasses during math class? A: They improve di-vision Like this product? Follow me to see new products bef

These task cards can be used in scoot, a quiz quiz trade game, or a gallery walk around the room. Students will work through 24 different input/output tables without having to sit in their seats for the duration of the activity. Can be used as an end of year input/output table review or a test preparation activity. Included: 24 task cards 4 brain break cards 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 Twin

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 task cards can be used in scoot, a quiz quiz trade game, or a gallery walk around the room. Students will work through 24 different input/output tables without having to sit in their seats for the duration of the activity. Can be used as an end of year input/output table review or a test preparation activity. Included: 24 math input/output table cards 4 brain break cards Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart button at the Ma

These test and trade cards will test students ability to name 3D shapes and specific attributes like vertices, edges, and faces. They will get with a partner, test each other, and trade cards. Then they will find 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 find more products you lov

This is an M-Step math performance task for 5th/6th grade. Concepts: Volume Fractions Decimals (with money) Operations

This is a test prep review game for the Michigan M-Step test. This was made for 3rd grade, but would be a good review for 4th as well. In this game, your students will work in partners to complete the math problems. The math problems come with a table or picture they need to use and many questions need to be used together, which is something the M-Step likes to do. Students will answer the problems and from each correct answer they earn action points to use in the game. Their goal, is to

This is a math performance task based on the Michigan M-Step state test. 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 find more products you love from my store. I am always adding more products and revamping old ones!

This is a fun game that will have your students begging for more. In this game, a student is playing against another student. Each one is fighting as a dragon. One dragon attacks while the other tries to block. If the attacking dragon is correct and the other player unsuccessfully answers his or her question then they have to fill in a circle on the game board. When all the circles are filled in that player loses. If they are out of questions then whoever has the least circles colored in wins, i

This is a math performance task based on the Michigan M-Step state test. Students will be going on a vacation and calculating expenses of that trip. 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 find more products you love from my store. I am always adding more products and revamping old ones!

This is a fun way to have your students practice recalling and using the formulas for the area of triangles, trapezoids, rectangles, and parallelograms. Students will move long a board game and draw game cards. They will check each other's work and hope to make it to the end of the board game first. Includes: -75 problems -Game Board -Game pieces -Answer Key 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

Use these 4 different double bar graphs with test questions to have your kids practice interpreting data from double bar graphs. Each of the four graphs have a question that is either: which of the following is true OR not true about the information presented in the graph. This forces students to do the math for all four answer choices to find the correct choice. 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

These quiz quiz trade cards will test students ability determine the greatest common factor or least common multiple of two numbers. They will get with a partner, test each other, and trade cards. Then they will find another partner and repeat the process. 24 cards for LCM 24 cards for GCF 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 yo

These quiz quiz trade cards will test students ability determine the least common multiple of two numbers using a list of multiples. They will get with a partner, test each other, and trade cards. Then they will find another partner and repeat the process.

This is a math performance task based on the Michigan M-Step state test. Students will be helping their father build a treehouse. Concepts: Area Calculating expenses Fractions Elapsed time 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 find more products you love from my store. I am always adding more products and rev

This is a math performance task based on the Michigan M-Step state test. Students will be going on a trip to the adventure park and calculating expenses of that trip. 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 find more products you love from my store. I am always adding more products and revamping old ones!

This is a fun way to have your students practice recalling and using the formulas for finding the area and perimeter of shapes. Area is only on rectangles. Perimeter of various shapes. Students will move long a board game and draw game cards. They will check each other's work and hope to make it to the end of the board game first. Includes: -60 problems -Game Board -Game pieces -Answer Key Like this product? Follow me to see new products before others. Look just below the Add to Cart

These task cards are great for a round of scoot, a gallery walk, or station activity. Students will have to find like denominators before adding and subtracting fractions. I have included the answer key with answers before and after simplifying (if possible). Task cards are great for getting kids up and moving and keeps them engaged. 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 c

This is a math performance task based on the Michigan M-Step state test. Students will be going on a vacation and calculating expenses of that trip. 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 find more products you love from my store. I am always adding more products and revamping old ones!