Printables

  • Multiplication Math Art: Patterns in the Unit’s Place

    As teachers, you know there is a cozy connection between math, music, and art. Multiplication Math Art: Patterns in the Unit's Place invites students to explore the repeating patterns found in the unit's digits of multiplication facts.

  • Dragon’s Dozens – Number Bonds to Twelve

    All you need to play is paper, pencils, erasers, and imagination. In lieu of using gems, gold or silver coins, diamonds, or actual treasure, you could use stickers, sparkle tape cut into diamond shapes, or color in the treasure with crayons, markers, or pencils. 

  • Ten Gems Math Game – Number Bonds to Ten

    Creating various arrangements of 10 gems, helps students recall number bonds of ten and know when to use that information. Use concrete examples to show your students the meaning behind each math fact and help them develop fluency.

  • Pieces of Eight – Sticky Math Game

    Make math memorable for your students - erm - crew as they play math like (every well behaved) pirates.

  • Vocabulary Sunrise: Ratio means Proportion

    How many times can one number fit inside another?  Help your students understand rational numbers by investigating the history of the word rational.

  • Are Your Students Ready for Mixed Numbers?

    Reducing improper fractions to mixed numbers and switching back again is a complex mathematical skill. Make sure your students are prepared before you jump into mixed numbers. This printable has number line activities and thoughtful discussion questions designed to let you see if your students are ready to study mixed numbers or what topics they might need to revisit in order to get ready.

  • A Fresh Look at Improper Fractions

    In this series of activities, you and your students will avoid the typical frustrations of learning how to reduce improper fractions to mixed numbers by; taking small steps starting with small numbers, gradually adding complexity representing each number as a fraction, on the number line, and as parts of a whole using subtraction (until your students insist on using division) to calculate the mixed number including student writing to explain each step.

  • The Size of Unit Fractions and the Number in the Denominator

    The inverse relationship between the size of a unit fraction and the number in the denominator can be difficult for students to understand.

  • Placing a Unit Fraction on the Number Line

    Locating unit fractions on the number line is a foundational skill in mathematics.

  • Vocabulary Sunrise: UNI meaning One

    Unicorn, uniform, unique, all important words ~ related to unit.

  • Vocabulary Sunrise: FRACTIO meaning to Break

    The word fraction is historically related to words such as fragile, fragment, fracture, and fractal.

  • Mini Poster: Cross Multiplication

    Cross multiplication can be used to compare fractions or verify equivalency.

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