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

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.

Multiplication by Grouping Level 1 Video Lesson • The grouping strategy taught allows students to multiply without knowing all their multiplication facts; • This video takes you step by step on how to develop the meaning of multiplication; • It guides students to learn the most effective early multiplication strategy: the multiplication by grouping strategy; • It provides a model for a conceptual-focus Common Core lesson; • With this strategy students only have to know how to count by 1,

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

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 3RD grade math, including: • Place value • Comparing numbers • Adding • Subtracting • Multiplication • Division • Problem Solving • Simple Equations • Represent and interpret data • Fractions • Measurement • Geometric properties and relationships • Probability This resource

These set of templates and practice sheets will engage students in representing the numbers 1 to 20 in nine of the most important representations under the Common Core Standards. Suggestions are provided for how the templates could be used for practice, assessment, and for student to student interactive practice.

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 evaluating expressions. I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and skill at evaluating expressions. The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different level of difficulty. The set also includes matching practice worksheets for each board that allow you to customize the evaluation of the expressions for students. The pre

Multiple Ways to Multiply Templates and Activities Using these templates and activities, students will be practicing 1 digit by one digit multiplication in six different ways: • Using ten-frames • Using Base-10 block pictures • Using repeated addition • Using the grouping strategy • By decomposing numbers into 1, 2, 5 • By writing the corresponding division equation Ideas for how to use the templates for practice, cooperative learning, assessment and for playing learning games are included.

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