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Use these SIX Foldables for your Interactive Notebooks (INB) throughout your lesson plan on Ratios and Proportional Relationships. These require minimal folding and cutting - making directions easy! Perfectly aligned with the Common Core standards for 6th and 7th Grade. Description of Foldables:• Essential Vocabulary - Pentagon Shape (Available to purchase separately)• Percent Proportion - Tri Fold Style Vertical • Percent Proportion and Percent Equation - Tri Fold Style Vertical • Converting

This set of center activities will meet your entire needs from the start of class to the end of the bell! Covers Measures of Central Tendency plus interquartile range, outliers, mean absolute deviation, and interpreting graphs (number lines, dot plots, stem and leaf, box plots and histograms). Includes a challenging warm-up, four center activities, interactive notebook foldable and an editable exit ticket! Start with the Spiral Review Warm-Up then move in your M.A.T.H. Centers, finish up wit

This is a fun, quick and totally FREE MATH Maze on Integers! Practice using positive and negative integers, double negatives, word problems and a few challenging questions using multiplication and division. Perfect for your fast finishers, after an exam or as a fun homework alternative! After they finish their maze, allow students to use it as a coloring sheet to extend the quiet time activity. Check out my other Math Freebies HERE!Enjoy!*******************************************************

This PEMDAS Jenga Game is a great way to practice using Order of Operations in a small group activity or MATH Center. It covers all aspects of Order of Operations aka PEMDAS including exponents, absolute value and negative integers. It includes 54 individual problems with a self-checking answer key and workspace document to show step by step solving abilities. This product is available to purchase in a JENGA BundleStudents will solve the problem after drawing a block from the tower then check

Want to make teaching Fractions Fun!? Well, use this Fraction Jenga Game and watch your small groups become competitive while solving! This game can be used as a center, table group game or review! It covers all operations on fractions and integrates mixed numbers, improper fractions, and negatives. This product is available in my Growing Jenga BundleIt does require a small amount of assembly by taping the problems/numbers on the blocks. You must also purchase a set of wooden blocks similar t

Perfect activity to supplement your lesson on Integers. Use as a whole group activity, small group even centers! Great component to academic practice (homework) and checking for comprehension of ability to write math expressions from word problems and properly solving for the solution. Includes a whimsy color page that acts as a graphic organizer and makes for a quick assessment! Answer key is available as well! Enjoy! ***************************************************************************

This awesome Foldable will help your students learn the definitions to the Essential Vocabulary Terms for the unit on Ratios and Proportions. I provided the definitions and examples for each PLUS there is space under each flap for you to personalize with a second example to reinforce their skills and use your own creativity to fit the needs of your classroom. Check out the Bigger Bundle which includes this one - you will be saving more $$$ Looking for even MORE! Here is a link to my entir

This is a small group game or can be used as a center. It is fun and engaging activity revolving around Combining Like Terms and distribution properties. There a few exponent questions but nothing an advanced fifth grade can not handle! This product is available to purchase in a JENGA BundleIt does require a small amount of assembly by taping the problems/numbers on the blocks. You must also purchase a set of wooden blocks similar to Jenga in order to use this product successfully. Included

Perfect activity to supplement your lesson on One-Step Equations! This activity includes 17 problems that include all four operations with 3 additional Two-Step Equations to up the rigor and leads into the next concept. Students will solve each problem then use the "Crack the Code" Key to match an image with a letter in order to solve for a Spring inspired quote. Use as a whole group activity, small group even centers! Great component to academic practice (homework) and checking for comprehens

Perfect activity to supplement your lesson on adding and subtracting Rational Numbers. This includes 15 problems that include Adding or Subtracting with unlike Fractions and Mixed Numbers. Students will solve each problem then use the "Crack the Code" Key to match an image with a letter in order to solve for a Fall inspired quote. Use as a whole group activity, small group even centers! Great component to academic practice (homework) and checking for comprehension on finding improper fractions

Use this 11 Question Quiz Post-Lesson to check your students comprehension of Ratios, Rates and Unit Rates. This Quiz covers essential vocabulary terms to the standards 6.RP.A.1 and 6.RP.A.2, types of Ratios, Identifying a Ratio using geometric figures, writing the ratio in all three different ways as well as a sentence to match the pictorial image, Unit Prices, and finding Equivalent Ratios based off a data table with missing components. You can be assured that the rigor is set accordingly t

This wonderful Animated PowerPoint Game is not only F-U-N but super fast paced! Students solve Ratio and Proportion questions and SMACK the right answer (hence Fly Swatter) - it is one of my students' favorite games to play! There are 15 Questions to be solved all within a PowerPoint Game which makes the learning exceptionally fun. I've included a workspace document to use for students to solve the problems on which can be used as an activity grade. A detailed answer key is also available to

Use this product from start to finish! Open with the INB Foldable and remind students how to convert from improper fractions to mixed numbers. Lead into the Improper Fractions Loop Cards where students will convert as quickly as they can to match up improper fractions to mixed numbers. Next, pass out the f-u-n Adding Fractions & Mixed Numbers MATH Maze and wrap up the day with the Editable Exit Tickets! Each component here provides you with the tools to check understanding before moving on.

End your Expressions Unit with this 16 Question Study Guide. Check for comprehension prior to testing your students and moving on to the Equations module. This makes a great independent or paired activity in class. I love using it as extra credit for my lower achieving students and boost their test grade. Part A covers vocabulary including: TermProductExponentSumBaseQuotientConstantCoefficientVariableExpression Part B covers Standards Based Questions with writing, reading and evaluating expres

Pair this Editable Foldable with your lesson on Writing Expressions. Understand the difference between indication words and how to identify them in a written format. Students will formulate a list of indication words for all four math operations and then have a chance to apply their knowledge to two problems per operation (8 examples total) To further this activity, I have made it editable so you can personalize the examples to be used. Included is a Master Copy of indication words and soluti

This fraction review activity brings friendly competition into your room! Students draw randomly two fractions and an operation card and race to correctly solve. On the Extension Worksheet students will conduct an Error Analysis on 3 Fraction Word Problems. I love playing this in several small groups and then the winners from each group combine to play a Single Elimination battle! Pass out 1st and 2nd Place Award Ribbons for their hard work! These cards are great when looking for an addition

Want to make using Decimals Fun!? Well, use this Decimal Operations Jenga Game and watch your small groups become competitive while solving! This game can be used as a center, table group game or review! It multi-digit decimals using all four operations, a mix of operations, ALL positive solutions, place value and rounding. This product is available in my Growing Jenga BundleIt does require a small amount of assembly by taping the problems/numbers on the blocks. You must also purchase a set

Back to School is always fun especially with this 6th grade Math Activity. Let your students break the ice and introduce themselves. There are 7 stations that you will get which makes it perfect for beginning transitions and small groups at the start of the school year. I love using this at the start of the school year when I'm establishing our rules and procedures during centers. Make sure students clean up their workspace areas before moving to the next round! Students will travel through