Thursday, March 22, 2018

Need something extra for Unit 7?


Looking for some resources to make your EM4 Unit 7 come alive for all of your students?  Here are some resources I found!  Remember, if you are looking for resources for a particular standard, check out the tab above labeled Resources to support CCSS.

1st Grade:
Geometric Subitizing Cards
Humpty Dumpty:  An addition and subtraction 3 Act task by Graham Fletcher embedded in Notebook.  Everything you need in one place!
Which One Doesn't Belong--Shapes:  These puzzles have students thinking and talking about shapes and their attributes
Secret Number:  A fun, easy game for partners to build their understanding of fact families
Mathematics Match Game:  Another game to help build understanding of fact families
Numbers Many Ways:  A lesson/exploration for students to explore number families
Geoboards:  This lesson helps students look at and build vocabulary around shapes and their attributes
Same/Different: A great visual exploration about what is the same and different about different shapes
How Many Under the Shell?  This online game helps students to visually solve basic addition/subtraction problems
Sum Links:  Great thinking needed as these basic addition problems become more and more difficult

2nd Grade:
Toll Bridge Puzzle:  This puzzle from Illustrative Mathematics has students solve the problem using multiple addends
Would you Rather:  This prove it problem mixes a review of money as well as adding multiple addends
High Jump Competition:  This task asks students to use a high jumpers data to answer questions
Same/Different:  This visual has students look at ways to bridge ten
3 Act Task--The Race: This task explores adding multiple distances
Would you rather:  Students justify their decision about measurement with math
4 Dominoes:  This visual puzzle has students add multiple numbers to find equality

3rd Grade:
Find 1:  Illustrative Mathematics task involving number lines
Would you rather:  Students justify their decision about fractional brownies with math
Rectangle Tangle:  Can your students determine the fractional value of each piece of the rectangle?
Representing Fractions on a number line:  This task asks students to show what they know about placing numbers on a number line
Fraction Game:  Game involving fractions on a number line
Half-Fraction Snake:  This puzzle only uses the fraction 1/2, but it will really get students thinking!
Fractions less than a half:  How many fractions can your students make using the benchmark of 1/2?
Comparing fractions on a number line:  Challenging problem from Open Middle!
Same or different:  Looking at a bar model of fractions--Can your students determine what is the same and different?
Dig it!:  This Calculation Nation game is great numberline practice.  Account needed, but free, and worth the time!  Games can be played on the SMARTBoard!

4th Grade:
Visual patterns:  This site is full of visual models.  Can your students figure out what would come in the 43rd step of the pattern?
Fraction Fascination:  This nrich puzzle challenges your students to find fractions of the whole
Decomposing Tenths and Hundredths:  Students must figure out the way to break apart 1 and 1/10 given the parameters listed
Multiplying Mixed Numbers by Whole Numbers:  This puzzle from Open Middle will get students thinking!
Game Winner: This 3 Act Task has students multiply a fraction by a whole number
Sugar in 6 Cans of Soda:  An Illustrative Mathematics task
Fraction Four:  An online game, similar to Connect Four, where students can practice many different aspects of fractions

5th Grade:
Visual patterns:  This site is full of visual models.  Can your students figure out what would come in the 43rd step of the pattern?
Multiplying Mixed Numbers by Whole Numbers:  This puzzle from Open Middle will get students thinking!
Which Quadrilateral has the greater area?:  This problem from open middle mixes students' understanding of shapes' attributes with computation
Super Bowl Cheesy Pretzel Poppers:  Students use their knowledge of fractions to change the quantity of a recipe
Father's Day Breakfast Surprise:  Another recipe adjustment problem
How Much Dew? A 3 Act task involving multiplication of fractions
Chavone's Bathroom Tiles: Illustrative Mathematics Task for 5.NF.4
Fraction Four:  An online game, similar to Connect Four, where students can practice many different aspects of fractions

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