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This is how I've introduced PEMDAS to my students the past two years! It would be fun to use as an introduction lesson or as a review. The analogy is that each of the orders of operations steps is a person in line for a business. This give some life to all the math steps that can be easy for students to forget. Student can also design their own business the characters are in line for. My students always have a blast making taco, ice cream or pizza stands. They then even like to act out being the

We all love a good mad lib! So I thought why not use it to make math word problems more fun! The best part is that students are just changing minor details in the problems (i.e. names, objects, food, events, locations) that way all the math work and answers are the same! I included an answer key as well! Keep the fun of personalizing it without more work of finding 25 different answers for every problem!

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to help your students practice their exponents? This can be used as a review or as additional practice! Students will start by making their own board designs using the numbers provided. Once all boards are created, teachers will pick at random an exponent problem. Students will have to solve for the exponent and find the answer on their Bingo boards!

Are your students struggling to visualize decimals? My students struggled to picture what a "thousandth" or a "hundredth" really meant. I had students asking me if decimals were negative numbers... I knew then that expanded form, comparing decimals and rounding decimals was going to be tough if they weren't able to picture what a decimal was. That's when I came up with this method of "building" and visualizing decimals. Tenths = dimes Hundredths = pennies Which that's pretty straightforward... b

Everybody loves the dot game! Why not use it to make math more engaging and let kids practice their multiplication! In this game download, you will find 5 different game play models including: basic facts (1-12)2 digit by 1 digit2 digit by 2 digit 3 digit by 2 digit3 digit by 3 digitThese 5 game models allow for an easy way to differentiate to meet your students names. It also allow you the ability to use a familiar game to practice different concepts throughout the year as you build onto their

Think about an all about me activity but instead of a kid's perspective... its from the perspective of a decimal! In this students will have a fun way to write a decimal in standard form, word for, fraction form and expanded form! They will also practice multiplying and dividing their decimal by a power of 10 or multiple of 10! Example Answer Provided

Students don't always love word problems but this is a way to bring their creativity in to make word problems more fun! In this activity, students will practice their estimating and multiplication skills! They will also be tasked with explaining their answer with academic vocabulary like estimate, product and reasonable! (Example is used with multiplying decimals by a one digit number but can be easily differentiated down to multiplying whole numbers or multiplying multi-digit numbers). This is