Looking for a way to bring March madness into the classroom? Check out these ideas for classroom March madness activities!
How to implement March Mathness-a tournament-style, basketball-themed game to motivate students with basketball in math class.
Looking for a fun way for students to practice using the Quadratic Formula? In this post there is a variety of algebra activities for students to practice using the formula to solve quadratic word problems and find zeros. My Algebra 2 students have enjoyed working on the activities that are included in this post .And the Quadratic Formula template has given my students the structured practice they needed to really master quadratics!
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My daughter came home one day with a rounding worksheet... she struggled through it. Creating number lines did not help, because she wasn't sure how to plot the numbers. So, I created these number charts to give her some extra help. We practiced for about 10 minutes, and she responded well to the activity. She said the activity was fun (dry erase markers always help) and feels like she's finally understanding how to round numbers. Yay! You can download this free resource at the end of this blog post. An editable page is included! Here's how to use this free resource. EXAMPLE 1: Round 47 to the nearest 10. Discuss why we round numbers. (We don't need the exact number, and rounding helps us create friendly numbers which are easier to work with.) Review counting by 10s to 100. Those will be our benchmark numbers. Find 47 on the chart. Underline the tens digit (4). The value of 4 tens is 40. So we need to decide which benchmark number 47 will round to (40 or 50). Use the chart to see if 47 is closer to 40 or 50. 47 is 7 spots away from 40 and 3 spots away from 50, so we round 47 to 50. Students write the benchmark numbers. EXAMPLE 2: Round 42 to the nearest 10. Find 42 on the chart. Underline the tens digit (4). The value of 4 tens is 40. So we need to decide which benchmark number 42 will round to (40 or 50). Use the chart to see if 42 is closer to 40 or 50. 42 is 2 spots away from 40 and 8 spots away from 50, so we round 42 to 40. Using a number line to round numbers. Students will begin to see the pattern. If the ones digit is 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 the number rounds up. If the ones digit is 4, 3, 2, or 1 the number rounds down. They will also start to become comfortable with plotting numbers. Choose your number. Will you round to the nearest 10, 100, or 1,000? Find your benchmark numbers. Plot the number. Round. Download the Resources CLICK HERE to download the resources pictured in this blog post. Digital Math Resources for Rounding! Are you familiar with Google Classroom? I've created interactive Google Slides that you can assign using Google Classroom. A PowerPoint version of the interactive math slides is also included. Why go digital? Engaging! Students love the interactive slides. They are having fun and reviewing important math topics. Timesaver! No printing or laminating needed :) Standards aligned! You know you're using your time wisely. Computer skills! Students practice copy/paste, drag/drop, inserting shapes, etc. Visit my blog @ MathTechConnections.com Visit my TPT Store Follow me on Pinterest! (Instagram) Follow me on Facebook :)
Do you need geometry activities and math centers? This blog shares a set of free geometry printable activities that are perfect for math centers.
Maze Solving Equations Activities to use with your Algebra 1 Class. Here are some FREE Maze Activities to use with your unit on solving equations.
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Learning to add money, make change, and compare money amounts are skills that are coming up in our money unit. I've been working on putting together lots of fun games and engaging opportunities to practice. Here are some money activities for second grade
Use this getting to know you activity for a math class! Super quick and easy to use! :) I suggest having students share answers using a Kagan strategy at their table!
Have you ever tried teaching unit fractions to third graders? Giving them as much visual, hands-on practice in my math centers is a MUST!
This Math Interactive Notebook is filled with over 30 pages of hands-on math activities for grades 4-8. Learn about fractions, multiplication, types of triangles, and more!
tw When it comes to math, geometry seems to be in a whole different league. Some kids fall in love with it instantly, while it seems challenging for other kids. One of the great things about geometry is that there are so many hands-on activities we can provide for our students, which makes it lots of fun! Here are some of my favorite geometry activities: 1. Start With Shapes I like to have students start with shapes they've known since they were tiny, like triangles, squares, and circles. We draw these on whiteboards as a whole class. Next we draw the more advanced shapes like pentagons, hexagons, octagons, trapezoids, and even the rhombus! This brings us to a discussion of polygons and we can classify shapes that way. Besides whiteboards, there are lots of ways for kids to work with shapes, like Popsicle sticks (which are also great to use to illustrate lines like parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular), LEGOS, Geoboards, and even clothespins which can be clipped together. 2. Marshmallow Geometry I like this activity because any time you add food, kids are all in! Using marshmallows and toothpicks, kids can make simple 2-D shapes, and also 3-D shapes. Plus, this activity is the perfect place to emphasize vertices since each time you add a marshmallow, you place it at a corner. If you have food allergies or school regulations which prohibit food, you can substitute the marshmallows for Play-Doh. 3. Use an Anchor Chart Once students have had lots of exploration time with shapes, it's time to discuss their attributes. I like to actually make this anchor chart with the kids' help. I explain how it will be organized, from the smallest number of sides to the greatest. We also notice patterns of sides and vertices as we create it. I do ask kids for examples of shapes, and sometimes they get really creative with this! 4. Go on a Shape Scavenger Hunt This is an activity that is great to do with some parent helpers if you have any. I like to send iPad cameras with each group, clipboards and pencils, and a record sheet. Kids record the shape that was found, the type of object it was, and where it was found. It's really fun to see what shapes they're able to find while walking around the school campus! 5. Incorporate Some Art I am a huge art proponent so I add art wherever it fits in. Geometry is a great time to do either geometric animals, robots, or people. I usually choose one of those categories but really you could make it a wide open project too! I shared another fun geometric art activity on a blog post I wrote called Incorporating Art in the Classroom. This one is from Literacy Loves Company. As a follow up to geometric lessons on lines and angles, I cut polygons from white construction paper for each child. I have kids use rulers and sharpies and follow my step by step directions of drawing lines and then finding obtuse angles, right angles, perpendicular lines, and so on. After the lesson is done, kids add color to these, making it a really fun art piece. 6. Add Some Kinesthetic Learning Kids need movement and it's easy to add some movement with this unit. For this activity, students will be on the floor working with a partner to make different kinds of lines (parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular), shapes, and angles (right, acute, and obtuse) using their bodies. An alternative is to have kids stand up and use their arms to illustrate these geometric concepts. Another kinesthetic activity is to gather Chinese jump ropes or packages of sewing elastic. If you use elastic, one package is enough for one small group of 5 - 6 kids. The idea is to have students use the elastic as a group to make the shapes you call out (types of triangles are especially good) or types of angles. Different kinds of lines can also be made if two groups work together. 7. Add Some Task Cards and Games Task cards are one of my go-to tools! Kids love the game-like format and I know that they're getting really focused learning on whatever math concept we're working on. I have used them as centers/stations, for whole class math time, for one on one, and as exit slips. If you'd like some pre-made math task cards specifically for geometry, click here; 3rd Grade Geometry Bundle 4th Grade Geometry Bundle 5th Grade Geometry Bundle 8. Read Mentor Text I love it when I can tie reading into math too! The books above are some of my favorite mentor texts for geometry. I love all of the visual examples included. 9. Use Music I just found these songs by Numberock on YouTube and they are perfect for this unit! Really great pictures and catchy tunes: Parallel, Perpendicular and Intersecting Lines Angles Types of Triangles 10. Practice Angles Seriously, next to long division, measuring angles is probably the most difficult math skill students will face in the elementary years! It doesn't help too that it is introduced in fourth grade in common core and then not even mentioned in 5th grade standards. Oh well! One activity that helps is to have kids use graph paper and write their first name in all capital block letters. Students can measure any angles created by the intersection of the letter's lines. Another favorite activity for practicing angles is to take tape and make different lines, which create angles on a desk, table, or even on sheets of butcher paper. Kids use protractors to measure angles and then write with expos (or markers on the butcher paper) right on the desks/tables! Great way to add some fun to this difficult concept! Hope you've found at least a few ideas you can use for your geometry unit! I did want to let you know that I have Math Task Card Bundles for every grade from 3rd - 5th. Each bundle has 30 sets of 32 task cards that cover ALL STANDARDS (CCSS) for those grades. I love prepping them at the beginning of the year and then grabbing whatever concept we're working on for some added practice. If you'd like to take a look: 3rd Grade Math Task Cards Bundle 4th Grade Math Task Cards Bundle 5th Grade Math Task Cards Bundle Thanks so much for stopping by! If you like this post, I would love it if you would pin it or share it with a teacher friend! For more ideas and strategies focused on Upper elementary, be sure to sign up for The Teacher Next Door's free email newsletter right HERE. I'd love to connect with you! Facebook Pinterest Instagram TpT Store
I love teaching all algebra topics with tons of interactive and collaborative activities that get students thinking independently and working together. This way everyone gets the practice they need to feel confident in algebra. Here are a bunch of slope activities that you can assign to students working in group or even digitally. I have updated many of the activities to now include links to interactive digital slope activities in Google Slides and Google Forms for blended learning.
Free multiplication color by number coloring pages are here. Educational math printables for girls and boys with single digit times tables.
Here is my collection of FREE math resources for teachers and homeschooling parents. These math activities and games come in printable and digital versions.
Math activities for teaching numbers to 100 in Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. A huge list of numbers to 100 activities and resources are included: books, materials, math tools, and FREE activity!
Last summer, I wrote about all the things I intended to do with my students to help them learn how to combine like terms. While the concep...
You found the perfect proportions and ratios activity! Your 6th and 7th grade students will LOVE practicing or reviewing proportions and ratios. Students will answer 20 questions in the game. They will identify if the ratios form a proportion and will solve the proportion.
Help your students improve math skills with real-world activities. Let students calculate orders, estimate, use a spreadsheet, and more. They'll learn so much!
Easy to implement game and activity ideas for one step equations practice & review. Includes independent practice, perfect for math stations, and partner & small group games and activities.
I hope that this blog inspires you to start using interactive notebooks with your students. Here are some things to think about when you g...
I develop curriculum for middle school math. I focus on using critical-thinking skills in my content so the math makes sense to the students.
We love math picture books, especially those with edible Math activities and recipes! In this post, show your kids how Fibonacci numbers work with fruit!
Measurement is one of my favorite skills to teach, and it is super easy to make that real life connection with measurement conversions. Take a look to see what we did to do so.
We are on our 4th week of measurement in my class! PTL the rulers are put away this week because we've moved onto learning about area! After 3
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
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Explore measurement with this simple hands-on perimeter activity for kids, a Perimeter Lab math invitation. They'll measure, calculate, and have fun.
This geometry activity for the first day of school is a great way to assess students' prior knowledge. It is a fun and free way to pre-test them! Click to..
Fractions can be tough! I know! Hope this Apple Fractions File Folder Game will make learning easier and most of all fun! File Folder Games are great for young learners from preschool to first grades
This fun print-and-play 2D shape activity is great to use as an interactive notebook, assessment tool or math center.
Physical activities, videos, books, games and art projects for teaching elementary geometry vocabulary of points, lines, and angles
I am on school vacation this week, so one of my projects was to make some templates to go with some math books I love to use in my classroom. There are so many fantastic books that connect to math. For this post, I shared the book, a quick explanation and a response sheet I created. Teaching The Lesson When I am presenting a lesson with a book, I often revisit the book many times. I have a lot of discussions on what we notice about the book and how it connects to math. On a different day, I will present the problem we will focus on that day and reread the story. After the reading, I will often demonstrate a way to approach the problem with student input. I often have the class give me a few different suggestions. I always model on the easel and will incorporate using math manipulates. Each page in this book has some fishes and in the corner, it pulses one more fish. If you look closely on the first page, Lois has a hidden word. Brightly colored fish introduce young children to counting and basic addition in this fun and simple concept book. FISH EYES is one of my favorite Lois Ehlert books; it can lend itself readily to so many follow-up lessons. Her illustrations are bold, bright and beautiful. Making fish was an easy task for many made beautiful patterns. Luminous pictures and a buoyant, chant-aloud text, combine to make this two-way counting book as joyous and magical as catching fireflies on a summer night. I love this book! I don't know if it's because I have only seen a firefly once in my life, and it felt magical. My class did an excellent job writing sentences + and - problems. I encouraged students to write a full sentence so that friends could solve them on a different day. Quack and Count is a cute story of a group of ducks who are learning to fly. Throughout the book, the author presents the ducks in different combinations to represent addition up to seven. Quack and Count is a book that I just stumbled upon, and it's perfect for kindergarten especially when introducing addition. When I did the response sheet below many of my students went a little crazy with drawing detailed ducks. One hunter walks through the jungle. He does not see two elephants or three giraffes. But they see him! The hunter problem is tricky! I would have students use cubes to solve this problem and encourage students to work with a friend. When recording, I would encourage students to do a quick and efficient way to record. I do plan on doing this problem in a few weeks. With a problem, this challenging, I am more interested in how students approach the problem, collaborate with peers and the different ways they find the solution. Mr. Mrs. finds a magic pot that makes a copy of everything that gets put inside it. An imaginative little boy explores the many pleasures that can be found in--and made from--his grandmother's button box. We have a few math investigations in the fall that focus on buttons. I often create a quick sheet to record. I know the recording piece is challenging so I thought having some words at the bottom would be helpful. We often look at a button and describe its attributes that connect nicely to this book and The Lost Button. After reading this story, you could make a list of all the different kinds of buttons/attributes mentioned in the story. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 __ 12 What happened to 11? Is it in the magician's hat? Maybe it's in the mailbox or hiding in the jack-o'-lantern? Don't forget to look in the barnyard where the hen awaits the arrival of her new little chicks. Could that be where eleven went? Eve Merriam and Bernie Karlin take young readers on a counting adventure as they demonstrate twelve witty and imaginative ways to get to eleven. 12 Ways to Get to 11 is an excellent book. You can easily make a class book 21 ways to get to 11 or use any number. I had to include this book in case someone does not know it! Click Here for the Downloads If you have a favorite math book, I would love to hear from you!
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When a math student is learning to find the area of a circle in geometry, activities help their understanding so much! This discovery activity and FREE WORKSHEET is a great way to help middle school and high school students understand the formula.
Life of Fred Apples Additional Activities is a fantastic way to add hands-on learning fun to the first book in the this popular homeschool math series.
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