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This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give students practice finding the surface area of a 3 dimensional shape. It includes rectangular prisms, cubes, cylinders, square pyramids, and triangular pyramids. Eight of the 24 of the shapes (rectangular prisms and cubes only) are shown in 3D form. The remaining 16 shapes are shown as nets. Students need to be able to find the area of squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles in order to be successful. I have these listed as applicable to both

This is a set of 20 task cards designed to give students practice with complementary and supplementary angles. Students do not need to be able to use protractors in order to use these cards, instead they must use reasoning (or addition) to find the angle pairs or the measurement of missing angles. All necessary angles are labeled with their measurements. I made these to use with above level fifth grade math students. For some reason, this skill seems to cause kids trouble and I've been trying

This is a double set of task cards designed to support the Common Core standard 6.EE.A.3 and 6.EE.A.4, which focus on having students generate equivalent expressions (both by evaluating coefficients, and by factoring them out). The first set is slightly easier than the second, with smaller numbers used for factoring. Many of the distractor answer choices are intended to catch the problem of multiplying the coefficient by only the first term and not the second (a common problem my students hav

This is a set of 20 task cards designed for kids just learning how to multiply a number by a power of ten. Each card presents a number multiplied by a power of ten, or presents the "before" and "after" number for the kids to determine which power of ten was used. All powers of ten are positive. Some starting numbers are whole numbers and others are decimals. The preview title slide show both formats used for the cards. These were designed to support the grade 5 Common Core standard 5.NBT.3.

This is a 6 page PDF file that contains computation practice for both addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed number (unlike denominators). Four of the sheets are straight computation, and the final two are addition and subtraction problems that use the variable n in various positions for the kids to solve. These were created for an above level fifth grade math class learning sixth grade objectives. They were designed to give practice with changing denominators that are fairly low, and

This is a 10 page PDF document that consists of 32 task cards (4 per page), an answer key, and a recording sheet for students. It is designed to give students practice with simplifying equations to solve for an unknown variable. Each equation has a positive, whole-number solution, but the students must handle terms that are added and subtracted on either side of the equation. I teach above level fifth grade students and I find that they need more practice with this skill as they learn to pa

This is a 12-page pdf that contains additional practice designed to be used with students learning how to combine like terms to solve for a variable. I have used these to support a method of teaching children to build equations and physically remove pieces to simplify equations. Some of the sheets use a symbol to represent an unknown, and others use a letter. Each equation has a positive, whole number solution. There are problems included in which the terms in the equations are added and su

This is a set of 20 task cards designed for kids just learning how to write a number as a single-digit multiplied by a power of ten. The focus is on writing numbers that are multiples of ten (300; 4,000; 70) using the exponent format. This objective was recently added to fifth grade in my district as part of our Common Core transition, and these cards were designed for fifth grade students who are beginners with this format. The cards include multiple ways of looking at the powers of ten, inc

This is a mixed set of 9 activity sheets and 5 note sheets that I use with my class as we work through what it means to multiply with fractions. It includes a whole number times a fraction, a mixed number, and a fraction times a fraction. The intent of these sheets is not computation practice, but to understand the connection between multiplying with fractions and repeated addition, area arrays, and then how this differs from dividing with a fraction. I have updated this file to include more

This is a set of 16 task cards that require students to add fractions and decimals to find the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. Many of the shapes have unlabeled sides and require the students to use problem solving skills to find the missing dimensions. The cards that include fractions are all like denominators, but many involve simplifying or regrouping. The cards that use metric measurements include some that are labeled with decimals. I designed these cards for use with above

This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give students practice calculating the area of a circle. Each card contains a diagram of a circle with either the diameter or the radius labeled. Each question is multiple choice. These were created for above-level fifth grade math students who have just learned how to use pi (3.14) times the radius squared to find the area. I use them for small groups of students in my class while I work with other groups of kids. I typically run off multiple set

This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give kids practice calculating the circumference of a circle using 3.14/pi. The picture of each circle is shown, with either the diameter or the radius labeled. These cards were designed for above level fifth graders who are just learning how to find the circumference of a circle. I made the cards primarily to give kids practice paying attention to whether they are given the radius or the diameter, before they calculate the circumference. (In each

This is a 50-page file that contains 6 sets of task cards. They are designed to support a classroom using the red/yellow 2-color chip model of teaching children to represent positive and negative numbers. There are 2 sets of 24-card decks that focus on adding integers (and recording the number sentence and sum), 2 sets that focus on subtracting integers (and recording the number sentence and difference), and then a bonus 2 sets of cards that present subtraction number sentences for the kids to

This is a set of two decks of task cards (32 each, total of 64 cards) designed to support CC5.OA.1. The task presents students with equations to evaluate, first without parentheses (deck one) but requiring practice with order of operations. The second deck builds to evaluating equations that use parentheses to change the order of operations. Each deck requires students to solve equations that mix multiplication or division with addition or subtraction. Questions are presented in multiple for

This is a 16 page file that contains two sets of 24 task cards, the answer key and a recording sheet. Each card contains one equation that is designed for students who are learning how to handle variables. Each equation can be simplified by combining like terms. The two sets are duplicate of each other, but in one version, each equation is given using a symbol in place of the unknown. The second set is the duplicate using the same equations, but all equations are written with variables. Th

This is a set of 16 task cards (with a recording sheet and answer key) that are designed to give kids practice calculating the area of shapes with no grid, but with necessary sides labeled. I used these cards with my above-level fifth grade math class as they were first learning the difference in finding the area of a square/rectangle vs. a triangle. I find that they consistently forget to divide by two when they are presented with a triangle. These gave them good practice with triangles th

This is a set of 48 task cards designed to be used with manipulatives for children to build equations. This set emphasizes how coefficients work in basic algebraic equations including a single variable. There are 2 sets (24 cards in each), using identical equations. Using the first set of cards, the kids are solving equations with variables represented as shapes, and blocks with numbers representing the other terms. The coefficients are shown as either 2 times a quantity or 3 times a quantit