Visual Mathematics

This 16 page PDF download gives you all the pre-requisite activities and games to prepare students to: - Compare and contrast linear, quadratic and exponential functions - Find the domain and range of a function - Analyze a table of values for each type of function and then write the function - Describe key features of each function - It includes a culminating task to done in class, and one parallel task to be done for homework or as an assessment.

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

Integers: A Comprehensive Set Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities. (Ask about our on site teacher training at pictorialmath@yahoo.com) This 105 page PDF download includes: • 22 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of interpreting and working with integers. • Templates and accompanying worksheets that get students to represent and working with integers in meaningful ways. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Instr

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

This 179 page download is the digital version of the actual award winning Conceptual Algebra Student Workbook, now available at Amazon for $18.99, but available to you here for only $13.99. Twenty five of the best math teachers in California working with high poverty, high minority students were asked “What would you want in a resource to address key pre-algebra and algebra common concepts and skills?” The answers they provided culminated in creation of the Conceptual Algebra Student Workbook

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.

Common Core Conceptual Algebra: Integer Unit This 87 page Unit on Integers Includes: • 10 different effective models to teach how to combine integers • Clear examples to guide students in using each of the new strategies to translate and combine integers. • Templates to create unlimited practice, assessment and homework problems with the new strategies build-in. • Over 400 conceptual integer problems • Integer games that engage students and provide them with the type of concept

Systems of Linear Equations: Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities Bundle This PDF download includes: • 14 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning the Common Core Standards related to Solving a System of Linear Equations . • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development. • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction. • All the Instructional cards for teaching and practicing translating between a system of linear equati

This bundle includes my top four Algebra common core resources on: 1) Graphing and solving linear equations 2) Graphing and solving a system of linear equations 3) Graphing and solving a system of inequalities 4) A culminating task on linear, quadratic and exponential functions These are also for sale individually, but if you buy this bundle you save 20% ($7.00)! You get over 45 activities and games to engage your students in these critical topics. None of my bundles repeat any of the produc

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

This PDF download includes: • 13 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning the Common Core Standards related to Solving Two 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

This 65 page pdf contains Lessons on : 1) Developing understanding for the meaning of a variable/unknown 2) Translating word problems into algebraic pictures 3) Translating story problems into algebraic expressions 4) Creating stories from algebraic pictures and expressions 5) Representing situations with algebra tile pics 6) Translating algebra tile pictures into stories 7) Evaluating expressions It also contains visual practice worksheets, games and activities for each of the lessons listed

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

Graphing Inequalities: Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities Bundle This PDF download includes: • 14 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning the Common Core Standards related to Graphing and Solving Inequalities in two variables. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development. • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction, • All the Instructional cards for teaching and practicing translating between an algebraic ineq

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

Linear Equations: Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities Bundle This PDF download includes: • 14 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning the Common Core Standards related to Linear Equations. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development. • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction. • All the Instructional cards for teaching and practicing translating between a linear equation, its table of values, its graph, its sl

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,