Below are a variety of games, problems, and tools that you might use to help meet your students' needs in Unit 6 of Everyday Math.
1st Grade:
Two-Digit Targets: This challenging place-value activity has an interactive version, but would be easy to print out for your classroom, too.
What is the Time: Some extra practice with time
Coded Hundred Square: Can your students crack the code for the hundred square?
Making Sticks: This activity has a hands-on component that allows students to manipulate blocks to answer the questions.
Make those Bracelets: Students are challenged to find as many solutions to the problem as possible.
GregTang books: Use any of these books to reinforce problem solving and/or to introduce arrays. This link takes you to the books in case you don't have the physical copy on hand!
Cookie Monster Puzzle: Video that explains how puzzle works. Great puzzle to promote perseverance.
2nd Grade:
Create a Bar Graph Online: This site allows students to input data to create a bar graph.Bar Graph examples: Sample bar graphs to use in whole class or small group
Learn Zillion: This site is good for introducing or reteaching the partial sums method of addition.
GregTangMath: This site offers another way for students to look at partial sums. Most of these problems are laid out vertically, so they may be for your students who have developed a strong conceptual understanding.
GregTang books: Use any of these books to reinforce problem solving and/or to introduce arrays. This link takes you to the books in case you don't have the physical copy on hand!
Sweets in a Box: Great problem solving problem involving arrays layered in a box.
Thinking Blocks: This visual model helps students to make sense of the story problem they are trying to solve.
Valentine 3 Act Task: This 3 Act Task works on basic addition/subtraction. Good for making sense of a story problem.
3rd Grade:
Make 100: This problem asks students to use flexible thinking to reach 100 in as many ways as possible.
25th Wedding Anniversary: A 3 Act task using subtraction (and my grandparents!)
Would you Rather: Students must make a choice and defend it mathematically. This one deals with fractions.
Nim-7: Not only do students learn how to play this game, they must think about the strategy needed to win.
Tables without Tens: This problem asks students to find patterns in the multiplication table.
Carrying Cards: Nrich problem in which students must look for patterns and do basic computation.
Is My Son Going to Win...Again?: Real world problem solving activity where students have a number of details to determine who will win the game of Monopoly Jr.
4th Grade:
Pebbles: Students look to continue a pattern using as few pebbles as possible.
Massive Mosaic: This 3 Act Task looks at area and division.
What's My Angle?: Extra practice measuring angles using a digital protractor
Would you Rather?: This problem asks students to pick a side and defend their choice. This problem deals with money.
Area and Perimeter: These problems ask students to look more closely at area and perimeter.
Star Polygon: An angle exploration from nrich. Students investigate their hypothesis.
Alison's Quilt: Story problem with putting square pieces together to form a rectangular quilt.
The Quotient Cafe: App from NCTM that helps students visualize division
5th Grade:
Spiraling Decimals: Students practice knowledge of decimal value in this partner game.
Jumping: Story problems that involve computations with decimals
Sugar Cubes: 3 Act Task that focuses on 5.NBT.6 and 5.NBT.7
Round the Dice Decimals: This nrich activity lets students think through the value of decimals.
Pick a Path: This game from NCTM has students use all operations to move the octopus through the maze. Numbers include whole, exponents, and decimals.
Star Wars Phenomena: This lesson involves a lot of number manipulation on a topic that many students are interested in: Star Wars!
Carl's Aquarium: Illustrative Mathematics task that gives real world exposure to volume
Your Number Was: This machine can guess the number you are thinking of. Try it with decimals!
Would you Rather: Students must make a choice and defend it mathematically.
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