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This is a 10-page PDF file that provides practice in solving problems with percents, including those where students must find the part (given the percent) or the whole, given a part. Each situation is scaffolded with a partially completed bar model/tape diagram that helps students visualize the quantities in the problem. All of the answers are whole numbers, with some problems requiring more challenging reasoning than others. These cards were designed to directly align with Common Core 6.RP.A.3

This is a double set of task cards (2 sets of 24, or 48 cards total) designed to give students practice with solving rate problems using a double number line diagram. These problems were designed to support common core 6.RP.3. I first started using this model last year when my school implemented common core and made a set of task cards to use with my above level fifth graders. My students did well with the model, and I quickly realized that I needed more practice for them. I particularly wan

This is a 15-page document (plus a few pages of answer key) that is intended for an introduction to decimals. It includes tenths and hundredths with practice on number lines, word form, comparing, and adding and subtraction. The emphasis is on making sense of the numbers and the place value. All computation problems are presented horizontally, and many can be solved mentally with adequate understanding of tenths and how they combine to form wholes. I created this for use with on grade level a

This is a double set bundle of task cards (2 sets of 24 cards each) that give students practice using a tape diagram/bar model to solve percent problems. In some problems, they are finding the part, and in others the whole. All problems use whole numbers for solutions. I created my first set of cards with this model and used them with my above level fifth grade students this past school year. I hadn't used this model prior to my school adopting the common core, but I have to say that I was qu

This is a set of 20 task cards designed to be used with fifth graders as part of the common core multiplication of a whole number by a fraction. Each card has the students find the fraction of a set using a dot array. I created these for use with on grade level fifth graders who are transitioning into multiplying with fractions to start thinking about a fractional part of a set. I usually print several sets and use them for small group work within the room, but they could easily be used for

This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give students practice at writing ratios to match a picture. Some cards ask for a quantity to be compared to another partial quantity and others compare to the whole set. I made these to use with 5th grade students who need practice in ordering the numbers correctly in a ratio, and in locating equivalent ratios to match a situation. Ratios are written in 3 different formats (x:y, x to y, and as a fraction) and some are presented in simplest form. Som

This is now a 14-page PDF that contains matching cards, warm-ups, and worksheets. The matching cards include square numbers shown in 4 different forms (exponent form, standard form, expanded form, and as an array). I have updated this file to include the cards in 2 different sizes, based on a good suggestion from a purchaser. The warm ups are in half page format and include practice with mainly square numbers, but a few cubed numbers. The worksheets then add in other exponents and writing numb

This is a double set of task cards (2 decks of 16 cards each) that are designed to help kids pull numbers from word problems to write inequalities. The first set of cards includes additive situations in which 2 quantities are being compared (ie, the number of people who attended a matinee vs evening showing of a movie) in two ways (over 2 days of the week). The students must determine which quantities are being compared and then correctly express the numbers as inequalities. The second deck

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 double set of task cards (24 cards per set) designed to support 5.NBT.B7, which focuses on decimal computation. These cards focus on handling tenths, many involving subtraction from a whole. I created these to help students who consistently try to regroup and make errors as they cross over the decimal point. I would like for many of these problems to be obvious, and yet I have kids who are solving 3 - 0.7 and they're busy crossing out the 3 to regroup. The majority of the cards fe

This is a set of 3 basic chart worksheets that give kid numbers in standard form and expanded form with the powers of ten to convert into the alternate form. The first sheet focuses on smaller numbers and the later sheets build to larger numbers.

This is a one-page worksheet that has children write numbers in word form given standard form, and write numbers in standard form given word form.