Visual Mathematics

Fractions, Decimals and Percents: A Comprehensive Set of 5th 6th and 7th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities (Ask about our on site teacher training at pictorialmath@yahoo.com) This 104-page PDF download includes: • 27 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to fractions decimals and percents. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Instructions, variations to scaffold a

The following is a review of Pictorial Mathematics that appeared on Teaching Mathematics, a math education journal published by NCTM, the largest mathematics education association in the world. The book is available through amazon for $32.95, but it is available here as a E-book for $20. “Modifying one’s instructional practice to reflect the NCTM’s Standards is challenging. It is particularly true when creating ways for students to “see” mathematics in more than the rote symbolic manner that d

Fractions Bundle of Games and Activities This bundle includes my top 5 Fraction Common Core resources on: 1) Basic Elementary Fractions 2) Understanding Equivalent Fractions 3) Learning to add fractions with uncommon denominators 4) Multiplying fractions 5) Translating between fractions, decimals and percents These are also for sale individually, but if you buy this bundle you save 20% ($13.00)! You get over 100 activities and games to engage your students in these critical topics. None of

When it comes to adding fractions with uncommon denominators, so many students either don't know their multiplication facts or are just simply intimidated by fractions. This Narrated Powerpoint lesson takes you step by step on a strategy that is guaranteed to make it much simpler for these students to add fractions with uncommon denominators. Our goal is to provide teachers and parents with easy to follow, effective strategies and lessons at a bargain price.

This PDF download includes: • 13 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning the Common Core Standards related to Solving One Step Equations. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • All the Instructional cards for teaching and practicing translating between a word problem, its equation, equivalent forms, and the equation’s solution. • An Easy cutting guide for the game cards th

Equivalent Fractions: A Comprehensive Set of 4th through 7th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 65-page PDF download includes: • 26 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to equivalent fractions in grades 4 through 7th. • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • All the Instructional cards for teaching and practicing translating between various re

Multiplying Fractions: A Comprehensive Set of 5th through 7th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 65-page PDF download includes: • 26 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to fraction multiplication in grades 6 and 7. • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • All the Instructional cards for teaching and practicing translating between various rep

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect four game that gets to students to practice problems of the form: a) What is ___% of $_____? b) Discount problems c) Mark up problems The problems are set to progress from the easiest on the first board, to the most challenging in the fourth board. I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at practicing the most common types of percent problems. T

Adding Fractions: A Comprehensive Set of 4th through 7th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 65-page PDF download includes: • 26 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to adding fractions in grades 4 through 7th. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • All the Instructional cards for teaching an

When teaching how to subtract fractions with unlike denominators, teachers face two main challenges: lack of basic skills, and students who are intimidated by fractions. The strategy presented in this narrated lesson will make the teaching of subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators as easy as removing brownies from a brownie tray,

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect four game that gets to students to practice solving one step equations involving a) Addition b) Subtraction c) Multiplication d) Division The problems are set to progress from the easiest on the first board, to the most challenging in the fourth board. I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at practicing solving all types of one step equations.

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect Four game that gets to students to practice adding fractions with uncommon denominators. The additions are set up to progress from the easiest in the first board to the most difficult in the fourth board. I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at adding fractions. The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different level of d

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect Four game that gets to students to practice subtracting decimals with regrouping. The subtractions are set up to progress from the easiest in the first board to the most difficult in the fourth board. I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at subtracting decimals. The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different level of di

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect four game that gets to students to practice their multiplication facts, The facts are set up to progress form the easiest (1, 2, 5, 10) to the most difficult ones (11, 4, 8, 3 and 6, 9, 12, 7). I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at recalling the key multiplication facts The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different le

Multiplication is approached from 8 different perspectives and representations, and both the translations and the transformations from and to other representations creates the opportunity for students to develop conceptual understanding. In this first section, you will see how students might approach multiplying a one digit number by one, two or more digit numbers using both a grouping strategy and the idea of decomposing numbers. Let me clarify. In multiplication such as 4 x 26, the first nu

This collection of 10 pictorial mathematics templates will help you engage students in visual representations of concepts such as: * Place Value * Decimals * Percents * Fractions * Graphing * Adding * Subtracting * 3-D drawing of geometric figures * Ratios and Proportions They are intended to be used with the Pictorial Math See-through Sleeve, but you can use any thick sheet protector instead. Using it with the Pictorial Math sleeve will allow you to re-use the same templates over and over wi