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Place Value Table Tents & Blocks for Grades 2/3

Place Value Table Tents Mitra Paysen Introduction/Explanation: Place Value Table tents are a great, interactive way to introduce the topic of place value, and have students practice the concept and deepen their understanding in a hands-on way. The flexibility within the activity, and the ability to continue adding higher digits …

Mathmagical Escape Room for Grades 5/6

Math Learning Object: Mathmagical Escape Room Hailey Yan and Brie MacDonald Target Grade Levels: 5 & 6 Mathmagical Escape Room_Teacher Package Mathmagical Escape Room_Student Package Inspiration: For our Link2Practice observations on Wednesdays last term we were both in the same grade 6 class at Spencer Middle School. The librarian at …

Math Scavenger Hunt for grades 7/8

Math Scavenger Hunt Alicia Irg & Katrina Crawshaw EDCI405.Question Bank This question bank is intended to be used as a team-based assessment of learning activity. Inspired by Escape Rooms and the gamification of learning, the purpose of this mathematical “scavenger hunt” is to integrate and review curricular content through the …

Guesstimating Groceries for Grade 5

Guesstimating Groceries: Adding and Multiplying Money Sioned Seeley-Cavers & Laurel Apps Grade: 5 Curricular Competencies: ● Estimate reasonably ● Develop mental math strategies and abilities to make sense of quantities ● Model mathematics in contextualized experiences ● Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving Curricular …

I Spy Math Learning for Grades 1/3/8

Learning Object: I Spy Fran Bailey Would you like a game for your classroom that helps students practice number concepts through subitizing? Or a game that helps students recognize that fractions represent quantities?  How about a game that involves multiplying (or dividing) fractions by single digit numbers?  Your imagination is …

Subtraction War! For Intermediate grades

Subtraction “War” Card Game Taylor Schollen Subtraction War How to play: Materials Needed: Deck of cards Shuffle a deck of cards and hand out an equal amount to each player. Preferably two people but more can be added to make the game more challenging. Each player then flips over two …

Sea Creatures & Dots booklet for Kindergarten

Sea Creatures & Dots Counting Strategy Booklet.   Jessica Smith Learning Object Sea Creatures Big Ideas: ·     Numbers represent quantities that can be decomposed into smaller parts ·     One-to-one correspondence and a sense of 5 and 10 are essential for fluency with numbers ·     Objects have attributes that …