(FREE) Place Value Sandwiches Place Value Game

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Decimal Task Cards (Great for Test Prep and RTI)

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140+ decimal task cards that teach nearly every decimal topic are included in this bundle.  

It Includes:

• Task cards organized by decimal topics
• Printable boxes for storage
• Answer recording forms
• Answer keys
• Tutorial cards for independent review
• Word problems
• Traditional Problems
• Seven decimal topics are covered

This resource is a great tool for test prep, small group review, individualized practice, RTI, and guided math.  Problems are written at different complexity levels and at different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy for thorough review.

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Possible Uses:

• Give a box to a small group for review.
• Send home a box with a student that needs extra practice on a specific topic.
• Use these to review for tests.
• Use these as a RTI math intervention
• Differentiate instruction.

Comparing Decimals

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It includes two-step word problems.

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Free Factors and Multiples Game

Understanding math vocabulary is an important building block for math success. A common math error is confusing factors and multiples.  A factors and multiples game is available for free to help.  Yippee!!Click Here

Use this to build student knowledge before moving on to greatest common factor or least common multiple.  Use these to build general math vocabulary.  Use it as a math station activity.

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Fraction Task Card Bundle

Hello everyone!  I have gotten such great feedback about the fraction task cards.  I am so glad they have been helpful for your students.  Many of the task cards teach fraction concepts plus provide practice. This has been helpful for my students and allows them to work independently.  Some students take a printable box of task cards home too. All of the fraction task cards have now been combined into one large bundle.Click Here To Access Them.  View the preview at the link to get a closer look at the task cards.

Common Core Math Teaching Tips (Number and Operations)

If you have started looking at the Common Core Math Standards, you have noticed that some of the standards can look intimidating to students.  This is especially true for some of the Number and Operations in Base Ten Standards across the grade levels.  Students are expected to understand how the value of a number is greater or lesser across different place values.

This is an example from the Common Core Grade Five:

"Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left."  (Common Core Standards)

There are variations of this standards across the third and fourth grade levels too.  Although the wording looks very technical, when students can see what the standard is asking, the standard doesn't look so scary anymore.

When I teach this standard across the grade levels, I love to use visuals.  It is refreshing to hear a student say "Oh, that is what it means."  

Use a simple egg carton and place value chips to teach this concept.  There are decimal numbers written on the back of each chip.  If you would like to create your own chips, use thick foam board, a round paper punch (1/2 inch size) and a permanent marker.  Use different color foam board to represent each place value.

I lay my chips out in order like this.  

I love the fact that there are two rows in the egg carton. Let us look at the example of 

"100 is 10 times as large as the number ten." Ten tens place chips were placed in front of the number 100.  This helps students visualize what is stated in this particular Common Core Standard. As students move chips around, the physical movement, sight of the chips, and thinking processes involved in manipulating numbers helps them understand this concept.

Grade 1 Common Core Math Task Cards

Grade 2 Common Core Math Task Cards

Grade 3 Common Core Math Task Cards

Grade 4 Common Core Math Task Cards

Grade 5 Common Core Math Task Cards

Learn Fractions With Building Blocks or Legos

A deep understanding about fractions makes the transition from elementary math to middle school math and algebra even easier.  

Manipulatives are not only useful at the lower grade levels, they are also helpful for teaching more complex fraction concepts at the upper grade levels too. Click here to access free and fun main idea task cards. 

Understanding Mixed Numbers

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The yellow blocks are the central focus of this math problem.  Using manipulatives helps information get stored in multiple parts of the brain.

For this fraction problem, four blocks are needed to make a whole.  Students can see that by adding 2/4 + 3/4, 1 whole and 1/4 blocks is the result when combined (5/4). These are great for starting discussions about math concepts and for writing about math. Students can explain what happens when fractions are added and the meaning of a mixed number.

Multiplying Fractions

It is often difficult for students to conceptualize what happens when fractions are multiplied. This often leads to many misconceptions about fractions.

This fraction focuses on the blue blocks. Students can see that 2/3 x 3 is three groups of 2/3.  By touching and manipulating the blocks, information is stored in multiple sections of the brain to help students understand and remember the concept.

The answer is two.  After seeing 2/3 x 3, a student would then put the blue blocks together.  Since three blue blocks are needed into to make a complete stack, students can then visualize 2/3 x 3 = 2.  This is a great small group discussion starter.  Students can explain what happens when a fraction is multiplied to a whole number.

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Fraction Strategies

Fractions can be really tricky for students, but it does not have to be this way.  Some of the best ways to help students not only remember the procedures for adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing fractions include using visual models and assisting students as they develop their own strategies for understanding math concepts.

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With the number line strategy, students can act out multiplying 1/3 by three to better understand how repeated addition can be used to solve the math problem.

This number line is divided into fourths.  The format helps students gain a better understanding of mixed numbers.

The part-whole model helps students conceptualize the idea that a fraction is a part of a whole.  Students can then better understand why division is necessary in this specific math problem.

Money Pocket Math Center

I think everyone knows my absolute love of the Dollar Store. When they got an order of over-sized coins in, I pounced at the opportunity to purchase them.  Whether you have plastic coins or printable paper ones, they can be used to create a math center to help students learn how to count money.

Paper pockets were created using construction paper.  An amount that students have to find was written on the outside of each pocket.

Students place coins in the pocket to represent the amount shown.  These pockets can be made with different amounts written on them.

By asking students to find two or three different ways to make 15 cents (or any amount), they gain strength in their abilities to count money.

Fun Fraction Games

This fun fraction game can be easily made and can be an enjoyable way for your students to review fractions of a region.  Students use a piece of string to make a match.

Students have to decide which fraction matches the word form.

Instead of drawing a line, they use string.