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.

Learning to Add 2 Digits in Six Different Ways Using these templates and activities, students will be practicing 2-digit addition in four different ways: • Using ten-frames • Using Base-10 block pictures • Using Money • Using the place value chart • Writing the corresponding number fact subtraction equation • Using the standard addition method Ideas for how to use the templates for practice, cooperative learning, assessment and for playing learning games are included. I have also included som

Addition with Regrouping: A Comprehensive Set of Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 60-page PDF download includes: • 25 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to Adding with Regrouping. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • A detailed listing of all the 2nd and 3rd grade Common Core standards targeted by the games and instructional activities. • Instructions, variati

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

Multiplication of 1 Digit by 1 or more: A Comprehensive Set of 3rd/4th Grade Multiplication Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities (Ask about our on site teacher training at pictorialmath@yahoo.com and get up to $100 of our materials for every teacher at your school for free!) This 111-page PDF download includes: • 27 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related multiplication for 3rd and 4th grade

Division by Grouping: A Comprehensive Set of 3rd/4th Grade Division Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 104-page PDF download includes: • 24 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to division for 3rd and 4th grade. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Matrix with common core standards targeted by each game and activity • Instructions, variations to scaffold and diffe

Money Money Money! A Comprehensive Set of Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities Ask about our on site teacher training at pictorialmath@yahoo.com and get up to $100 of our materials for every teacher at your school for free!) This is the only set you will need to teach all the standards about money and the only resource you will need to engage students in problem solving with money. All resources needed are included for grades 2 to 5, and for special education students.

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

Place Value: A Comprehensive Set of 2nd and 3rd Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 126-page PDF download includes: • 26 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to Place Value in 2nd and 3th grade. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • A detailed listing of all the 2nd and 3rd grade Common Core standards targeted by the Games. • Instructions, variations to scaffo

2nd Grade Common Core 5 Minute Enhanced Multiple Choice Assessment Templates This 63 page PDF download provides teachers with an unlimited number of Common Core Enhanced multiple choice assessment questions and a system for year-round practice. The questions address each of the major standards for 2nd grade math, including: • Place value • Comparing numbers • Adding • Subtracting • Problem Solving • Simple Equations • Represent and interpret data • Fractions • Measurement • Geometric propert

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

Subtracting with Regrouping: A Comprehensive Set of 1st and 2nd Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This PDF download includes: • 25 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related to Subtracting with regrouping in 1st and 2nd grade. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • A detailed listing of all the 1st and 2nd grade Common Core standards targeted by the Games. • Instruction

2-Digit by 2-Digit Pictorial Multiplication: A Comprehensive Set of 4th, 5th and 6th Grade Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 84+-page PDF download includes: • 27 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of all the Common Core Standards related multiplication to 4th and 5th grade. • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • A detailed listing of all the 4th and 5th grade Common Core standards targeted by the Games.

When it comes to addition with regrouping and solving word problems involving addition with regrouping, this set is the one that 2nd-4th teachers who attend my workshops rave the most about. Students will use the premade boards and ledgers to sell: 1) Food: burgers, hot-dogs, pizza, tacos, mac and cheese, burritos, burger meals, and fried chicken. 2) Top selling kid-friendly movies 3) Top selling video games 4) Family board games 5) Various types of bicycles 6) Large family games like ping pong

Numbers 1 to 10: A Comprehensive Set of Kinder Common Core Learning Games and Critical Thinking Activities This 108-page PDF download includes: • 27 different active learning games specifically designed to support the learning of the Number Common Core Standards for Kinder • Comprehensive mathematical thinking development • Matrix with common core standards targeted by each game and activity • Instructions, variations to scaffold and differentiate instruction • All the Instructional cards

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