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This offering is a nice puzzle to use during Thanksgiving week. It might best be used as a last day exercise in which fun can be had while learning also occurs . . . a win-win activity. As the student "writes" a Thanksgiving Day essay by evaluating arithmetic expressions using addition, subtraction, some fairly small exponential expressions, and order of operations they'll also learn of the history of Thanksgiving while breaking a coded message. The intent is for all problems to be done men

Here's a St. Patrick's Day Puzzle that yields a bit of history and lore while enriching mental math abilities. To fill in the blanks, and find the answer to the anonymous quote, match the date below the blank with the letters and events below. If you do not recall the date of the events listed, I’ve given you the math wherewithal to calculate the date. Of course, it might help to learn/remember that a quick way to subtract mentally is by “over-subtracting.” Consider 736 – 198. Inste

In this Board Session students will… -substitute in a variable expression, then simplify the expression -work with exponents -work with properties and order of operations -solve one-step equations with rational numbers in them -find the perimeter & area of a rectangle -determine the place value of digits in a decimal number -order some rational numbers from least to greatest We DO have a complete set of the 20 7th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual ses

In this Board Session students will… -add and subtract whole numbers -work with exponents -locate and order numbers on a number line -write out decimal numbers in words -round off numbers to various decimal places -work with Roman Numerals We DO have a complete set of the 20 5th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try copying: 5th Grade Board Sessions, Complete Set of 20, Common Co

In this Board Session students will… -use order of operations to simplify rational expressions -work with exponents -solve equations with one step, and mentally -order rational numbers from least to greatest -substitute in variable expressions, then simplify the expression -use divisibility rules with a number -prime factor, find a GCF and a LCM We DO have a complete set of the 20 6th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in

In this Board Session students will… -use order of operations to simplify rational expressions -work with exponents -solve equations one-step and mentally -work with a circle inscribed in a square -sketch 2- and 3-dimensional geometric figures We DO have a complete set of the 20 6th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try copying: Complete Set of 20 6th Grade Board Sessions, Common Core, Review, Q

In this Board Session students will… -use order of operations to simplify rational expressions -work with exponents -solve equations with one step and mentally -work with rate (of a candle burning) -substitute in variable expressions, then simplify the expression -add fractions to get perimeter of a triangle -find perimeter & area of parallelogram with rational sides We DO have a complete set of the 20 6th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied b

In this Board Session students will… -use order of operations to simplify rational expressions -work with exponents -solve equations with one step, proportionally,and mentally -order rational numbers from least to greatest -substitute in variable expressions, then simplify the expression -convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals -find perimeter & area of rectangle with fractional sides We DO have a complete set of the 20 6th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from th

In this Board Session students will… -use order of operations to simplify rational expressions -work with exponents -round numbers off to various places -estimate the answers to binary operations, then perform them -given some scores find measures of central tendency & range -find the perimeter of a triangle with decimal number sides -order numbers from least to greatest We DO have a complete set of the 20 6th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions mul

In this Board Session students will… -work with the order of operations -work with exponents -solve one-step equations and Guess & Check -work on naming rays, midpoints, etc. -estimate some rational number operations, then perform -work multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals -identify vertical and horizontal symmetry -draw a parallelogram, and find the missing angles in it We DO have a complete set of the 20 5th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual session

In this Board Session students will… -work with the order of operations -work with exponents -solve one-step equations and Guess & Check -substitute for variables and simplify the expressions -estimate, then subtract fractions -work with perimeter -work with an average (mean) We DO have a complete set of the 20 5th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try copying: 5th Grade Board Sessions, Comple

In this Board Session students will… -add and subtract whole numbers -work with exponents -solve equations mentally -substitute in variable expressions, then evaluate -estimate, then perform some binary operations -sketch some 3-dimensional figures -find the perimeter and area of a rectangle with decimal # sides We DO have a complete set of the 20 6th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try cop

In this Board Session students will… -add and subtract whole numbers -work with exponents -solve equations mentally -substitute in variable expressions, then evaluate -convert some measures to different units -use "scaling" on a rectangular plot of land. We DO have a complete set of the 20 6th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try copying: Complete Set of 20 6th Grade Board Sessions, Common

In this Board Session students will… -work with the order of operations -work with exponents -solve one-step equations and Guess & Check -substitute for variables and simplify the expressions -work with place value -convert measures -work in statistics with a stem-and-leaf chart -work with perimeter We DO have a complete set of the 20 5th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try copying: 5t

The review/enrichment sheets in our Board Sessions series “cover” material much faster than nearly any course in America teaches the topics. We wanted 20 review/enrichment sheets per course, so we divided the number of content pages in any one course book by twenty and designed the board sheet problems to get through the entire book. Few middle school and high school classes ever make it through the entire book. Because of this you will find a lot of enrichment material in the sheets, particu

Preserving a Relationship In this graphing puzzle, the student will: 1). plot points in the first quadrant of a coordinate plane . 2). perform elementary division of whole numbers. 3). reflect a plane figure across both the x- and and y-axis. Please do not be intimidated by the 8.1 Core Standard number if it appears in the "core numbers" . . . it is the one that has the student work with reflections (among other things). Our reflections are not all that complex. Our Cartesian Cartoon Pu

In this Board Session students will… -work with the order of operations -work with exponents -solve one-step equations and Guess & Check -substitute for variables and simplify the expressions -work with prime factors, GCF, and LCM -work with perimeter -work with an average (mean) We DO have a complete set of the 20 5th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try copying: 5th Grade Board Session

In this Board Session students will… -add and subtract whole numbers -work with exponents -solve one-step equations -substitute for variables and simplify the expression -work with divisibility rules -work with Roman Numerals -estimate ugly-looking binary operations -work with perimeter of a triangle We DO have a complete set of the 20 5th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you might want to try copyi

In this Board Session students will… -work with the order of operations -work with exponents -solve one-step equations -substitute for variables and simplify the expressions -substitute for variables in a function rule -estimate the answers to some ugly binary operations -work with perimeter -use divisibility rules We DO have a complete set of the 20 5th Grade Board sessions listed, and at a discount from the individual sessions multiplied by 20. For ease in finding it you migh

In this Board Session students will… -substitute in a variable expression, then evaluate the expression -prime factor, find the GCF and the LCM -work with exponents, order of operations and arithmetic -estimate area and perimeter of a rectangle with fractional sides -estimate the answers to one-step equations mentally -estimate answers to some ugly binary operations -arrange some rational numbers from least to greatest We DO have a complete set of the 20 7th Grade Board sessions listed, a