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If your students are anything like mine, they get finding area and perimeter mixed up! This fun activity is to help students practice finding both, with a focus on composite figures. How it works: Scavenger hunt activities are such a hit in my class!  In the PDF there are 12 pages, each with a question about finding area or perimeter. The teacher should post these around the classroom. Students can pick any of the papers to start with. The bottom half will have a question. Students will compl

Scavenger hunt activities are such a hit in my class! In the PDF there are 12 pages, each with an order of operations question. The teacher should post these around the classroom. Students can pick any of the papers to start with. The bottom half will have a question. Students will complete the work on their paper, and arrive at an answer. The answers to questions are on the top half of each paper. Students will look around the room for the correct answer, and then go to that paper to complete t

This is a set of vocabulary I created for my Math Lab B class, which goes through core math standards from grades 6-8. The majority of my students are ESL, so each vocabulary word has a ESL friendly definition and a picture to go with the vocabulary word. These are intended to be printed and cut in half to hang up on a word wall. There are 18 pages, so a total of 36 vocabulary words. Vocabulary included: polygon, area, perimeter, right angle, right triangle, hypotenuse, leg, Pythagorean Theorem

This is a great, engaging game to practice integer rules and something your students will love. The goal, just like a normal BINGO game, is to get 5 in a row, either diagonally, vertically, or horizontally. You will give students an integer question, one at a time. The answer to the question should be on their bingo board. Students will cross out the answers on their board until someone has BINGO. Depending on how long you want it to take, you can stop after one student gets BINGO, or keep going

This is a great, engaging activity to practice decimal operations. For this activity, you will put students into groups (2-4 students per group, depending on the size of your class). Each group will be given the 16 cut-out puzzle pieces included in this file. The goal of the group will be to put the pieces together into 4 sets of 4. For each set, there is a decimal addition problem, subtraction problem, multiplication problem, and answer. For my students, I personally like to make it more of a g

This is a great, engaging game to practice simplifying expressions using order of operations. For this game, students can work in groups of 2-3. Each group will have a board and a deck of cards. The winner is whoever gets to the finish first. Students take turns drawing a card, and simplifying the expression on the back. Have all students in the group work on the problem so that they agree on the correct answer. The answer is how many spaces forward that student moves. The next player chooses a

The goal of this activity is to give students a chance to practice converting between decimals, fractions and percentages in context! How it works: Scavenger hunt activities are such a hit in my class!  In the PDF there are 8 pages, each with a question about a situation requiring converting between fractions, decimals and percentages. The teacher should post these around the classroom. Students can pick any of the papers to start with. The bottom half will have a question. Students will comp

This is a great, hands-on activity for students to practice converting between decimals, fractions and percents! For this activity, students can work independently or with a partner (depending on the size of your class and how many sets you want to cut out). Give each group a set of cards (I’ve laminated mine so I can use them again and again). The goal is to match the fraction with the decimal equivalent and percent. There are 36 cards equaling 12 sets. If you print the pieces double-sided, i

Have your students practice using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to answer story problems with this puzzle activity instead of a boring worksheet! Each puzzle piece has a story problem that requires adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing. Starting with the piece that says "start here", students will answer the first question, and go on to the next piece that has their answer. There are 11 questions in this activity. Print an extra copy and don’t cut it up to use as an a

This matching activity is a great way to have students practice using their knowledge about order of operations and how to use math to represent word problems. Students will match 3 cards together in sets, with a total of 6 sets. Each set will include a word problem, an expression with multiple operations, and the answer. The numbers in all word problems are the same, so student really have to focus on which operations the word problem is describing, and the order those operations need to be per

This is a set of vocabulary I created for my Math Lab A class, which goes through core math standards from grades 1-5. The majority of my students are ESL, so each vocabulary word has a ESL friendly definition and a picture to go with the vocabulary word. These are intended to be printed and cut in half to hang up on a word wall. There are 9 pages, and a total of 22 vocabulary words. Vocabulary included: polygon, area, perimeter, sum, difference, product, quotient, remainder, decimal, whole num

This is a great, engaging game to practice fraction operations and something your students will love. The goal, just like a normal BINGO game, is to get 5 in a row, either diagonally, vertically, or horizontally. You will give students one of the provided fraction questions. The answer to the question should be on their bingo board. Students will cross out the answers on their board until someone has BINGO. Depending on how long you want it to take, you can stop after one student gets BINGO, or

This is a great, hands-on activity for students to practice representing situations with fractions and pictures! For this activity, students can work independently or with a partner (depending on the size of your class and how many sets you want to cut out). Give each group a set of cards (I’ve laminated mine so I can use them again and again). The goal is to match the situation with the fraction and the picture. There are 24 cards equaling 8 sets. Print an extra copy and don’t cut it to use a

This is a great, engaging activity for students to practice their four operations. I recommend putting students into groups of 2-4 for this activity. Cut out a set of triangles for each group (I’ve laminated mine so I can use them again and again). On some sides of the triangles there are problems, and on other sides, answers. The task for each group is to match up all the problems on the triangles with the answer sides. There are some answers that won’t be used, that will appear on the outside.