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

Extension Activities for Unit 6

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.

EM4 Unit 5 Extension possiblities

Here are some links that might help you as you plan Unit 5 in Everyday Math 4.

1st grade:
Equality 2:  Open middle problem which will require some perseverance in problem solving and knowledge of the equal sign.
Coin Bubble:  Good game for all students to gain understanding of coins and their place in base ten.
Adding two-digits numbers: Open middle problem where students are given an addend but must determine the other addend and sum given some parameters.  Challenging.
Two-digit targets:  Students strive to make the numbers that match the clues without reusing any digits.
Pennies:  A 3 Act task that your class can complete.  Helps students to gain practice with pennies.  This task is in SMART Notebook.
Interactive Place Value Mat:  This interactive mat is similar to the one in your ConnectEd etoolkit.  Choose the one you like better as a great way to model problems concretely.

2nd grade:
Two-digit targets:  Students follow parameters to find a sum that matches the description.  Open Middle 
Snail One-hundred:  game in which students use working knowledge of 10s and 1s.
Open Number Line:  This LearnZillion lesson can be used for independent practice or reteaching.  Get a LearnZillion account for full access to their resources.
Interactive Number Line:  This number line can be formatted with or without numbers and gives students a good way to see how adding on a number line can work.
Whopper Jar:  This Notebook 3 Act Task has students add 2-digit numbers.
Would you Rather?:  Students choose a side in this place value problem and defend it.

3rd grade:
Interactive Fraction Pieces:  This app from MathLearningCenter is similar to the one you can find in your ConnectEd etoolkit.  Choose the one you like best.
Distributive Property:  Direct instruction from LearnZillion can be used for reteaching or independent learning.  Get a LearnZillion account for full access to their resources.
Sweettart Hearts:  A 3-Act Task that builds basic fraction understanding. This task is in SMART Notebook.
Fractional Triangles:  This task from nrich asks students to look at ways to break apart a square into triangles.
Matching Fractions:  Online matching game for finding equivalent fractions.
Buzzy Bee:  Students look for and make sense of patterns.
Ordering Cards:  This task helps students gain a better understanding of x2 and x3.
Grapes:  Would you Rather activity where students must justify their choice.

4th grade:
Chocolate:  This task is really at grade-level, but it is a rich version of problem-solving.
Ribbon Lengths:  This LearnZillion lesson can be used for independent learning or reteaching of adding/subtracting mixed numbers.
What's the Secret Code?: This lesson from Youcubed offers students clues to see if they can determine the number.
The Apple:  This 3-Act Task focuses on adding fractions to get a total.  Introduces the idea of multiplying fractions, but gives good practice of addition strategies, too. SMART Notebook.
Fractions:  These Open Middle tasks are varied, but challenging for students.
Blueberry Surprise:  A problem that asks students to convert fractions to solve the problem. 
Brownies:  This problem asks students to make a fraction choice and defend it.

5th grade:
Fractions:  So many Open Middle fraction problems to choose from!  What a great challenge for your students. 
Andy's Marbles:  This work-backwards problem is a good challenge for students to figure out.
Egyptian Fractions:  A rich task to challenge your students' perseverance
Investigation:  This LearnZillion investigation looks at the commutative property and fraction division.
SnowSprint Fractions:  Fun online game to practice multiplying fractions independently.
Who Wants to be a Hundredaire?  This online asks progressively difficult multiplication of fractions problems. Format will be fun for students!
Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow:  This is a great problem-solving activity for gaining a better understanding for fractions!
Ben's Game: Great problem solving activity about fractions.  How many ways can your students find?  What if the box held more than 40 counters?

If you have other resources you think would benefit others, please share in the comments below!

Looking for Extension Activities for Unit 4?

If you have some students who pretest out of Unit 4 in Everyday Math, you may find some of these activities will help meet their needs.  Even if you don't have students who test out of the unit, these activities will take some of your grade level's unit skills and look at them at a higher level.

1st grade:
Game of Totals --whole day lesson from Youcubed
Snap It--great small group activity that could be used for combinations of 10
Eggs in Baskets--problem solving problem with conditions that make kids make sense
The Brown Family--problem solving activity
Make Ten blog post--this blog post from last year focuses on resources to help teach making ten
Popping Balloons--A 3-Act task that focuses on combos to 10

2nd grade:
How many Times?--problem solving activity about time
Wonky Watches--another problem solving activity about timeWhich is faster?--problem solving about place value and giving supporting evidence for your thinking
That number square--problem solving about numbers to 100
Fruit Shoot--online place value game where students match base ten blocks to numbers. FUN!
Place Values Shapes game--another fun online game for kiddos to think about place value differently.  Challenging!
Place Value Pirates--online place value game
Would you rather--scenario where students choose what they think is the better choice

3rd grade:
Area Shapes game--good review interactive game for students to practice area
Perimeter Shapes game--online review game that practices perimeter
Quadrilateral Shapes game-- interactive game that has student practice with different types of quadrilaterals
Rectangle Interactive--this interactive activity helps kids connect area to the length of the sides of the rectangle
Paper Cut--3 Act Task that explores area
Numerically Equal--problem solving that asks students to look at area and perimeter
Quadrilaterals--problem solving that looks at different attributes of quadrilaterals

4th grade:
All the Digits--problem solving involving multiplication
Shape Times Shape--multiplication problem solving with an introduction to algebra
Table Patterns Gone Wild!--looking for patterns in multiplication tables
Multiplying two-digit numbers--Open Middle activity for finding a product
Massive Mosaic--3 Act Task which focuses on multiplication of two 2-digit numbers
Would you Rather--scenario where students have to choose and defend the better choice

5th grade:
Scooter Quest--online game to practice decimal place value
Rounding Decimals--Open Middle rounding decimals problem
Meteor Coordinates--This onlinegame gives students a chance to explore coordinate pairs.
Place Value Pirates--online game to practice decimal place value
Hungry Puppies--online game where students choose decimal values to combine to make the target
Matching--this online game has students match decimals, fractions, and percentages
Round the dice--an investigation about rounding decimals
Spiralling Decimals--a game of strategy and knowledge of decimal size

If you have other resources to share, please add them in the comments below!

Unit 1 Extension Opportunities

Here are some resources that you might decide to use to extend your students' learning during this unit. I looked for activities for each grade level that would extend our students' understanding of concepts presented in the unit.  They are listed below.

1st grade:
LOGIC:  https://nrich.maths.org/7227
LOGIC: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/logic/puzzles/pets.shtml
ADDITION: http://www.openmiddle.com/equality-2-2/
COMPARING NUMBERS/ADDITION GAME:  https://www.gregtangmath.com/howmany
ADDITION: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
GAME:  123 Nim  
LESSON:  Domino Sorting

2nd grade:
PROBLEM SOLVING: https://nrich.maths.org/1005
MATH ARGUMENTATION:  https://nrich.maths.org/7383
GRAPHING: http://www.openmiddle.com/interpreting-data-2/
COINS GAME: https://www.gregtangmath.com/coinbubble 
LESSON:  2,4,6 Puzzle
PUZZLE:  Flower Petal Puzzles

3rd grade:
TIME: https://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=2328
ELAPSED TIME: https://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=3966
MULTIPLICATION: https://nrich.maths.org/1252
TIME: https://nrich.maths.org/1002/note
TIME: http://www.openmiddle.com/operations-with-time-2/


4th grade:
PLACE VALUE: https://nrich.maths.org/5950/note
PLACE VALUE: https://nrich.maths.org/2006/note
PLACE VALUE: http://wild.maths.org/tags/number-bases
SUBTRACTION: http://www.openmiddle.com/subtracting-multi-digit-numbers/
PERIMETER: http://www.openmiddle.com/rectangles-maximizing-perimeter/
PERIMETER/AREA: http://www.openmiddle.com/squares-perimeter-v-area/
GRAPHS: https://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=754

5th grade:

VOLUME: http://www.openmiddle.com/volume-of-rectangular-prisms/

VOLUME: http://www.openmiddle.com/volume/

MAKING BOXES: https://nrich.maths.org/89/note

AREA/PERIMETER: https://nrich.maths.org/7280/note

AREA: https://nrich.maths.org/1854/note

AREA/PERIMETER: https://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=3879

AREA/GEOMETRY: https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/youcubed-my-heart/
VOLUME: https://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=4095
PUZZLES:  Skyscraper Puzzles

Grades 1-5: Extension Options for Unit 3

Looking for some activities for your students  in Unit 3 of Everyday Math?  Here are some great activities which will allow them the opportunity to collaborate with classmates, explore strategies, and build math talk.

1st GRADE:

Strike it Out--Game that mixes addition and subtraction with strategy.
Moving Colors--This activity is set up for whole class, but I think it could be easily adapted for a small group.
Halloween Costume Logic Puzzle
Cookie Monster Problem--Good problem to work on perseverance
Number Icicles:  Skip Counting Puzzles
Would you Rather:  Place Value problem

2nd GRADE:
Sums Investigation--Problem solving activity with sums of two-digit numbers.  
TicTacToe Sums--A game for practicing addition with addends 0-12
Ages Logic Puzzle
Make it Equal--Open Middle problem about equality
Adding Two-Digit Numbers--Open Middle problem with addition
Bubbling Cauldrons: Challenging unsolved problem
Number Icicles:  Skip Counting Puzzles
Would you Rather:  Jellybean Subtraction Problem
Would you Rather: Money problem
Would you Rather:  Place Value problem

3rd GRADE:

Robot Steps--This activity mixes addition with pattern exploration.
Bowl-a-Fact--Challenging activity where students explore number combinations for specific results.
Sam the Squirrel--Story problem which involves multiple steps and strong thinking.  Good for individual or group work.
Tortoise and the Hare Skip Counting Challenge
Would you Rather:  Buying candy problem

4th  and 5th GRADE:

Keep it Simple--Task in which students are asked to state unit fractions as the sum of only other unit fractions.
Fractions Jigsaw--A challenging puzzle with equivalent fractions.
Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow--Challenging story problem involving fractions of sets.
Fraction and Rectangles task--DOK problem about equivalency
Open Middle Puzzle for Equivalency
Open Middle Decomposing Tenths and Hundredths
Would you Rather:  Sharing equal pieces of cake


Please feel free to share this with a friend.  If you have other resources that you have found work well, please share in the comments below.

Extension Activities for Unit 2 and Unit Targets

It is often challenging to find ways to enrich our students who have already shown mastery of skills in each unit.  It is tempting to teach them skills beyond the grade level, but we should really work to build more depth of understanding of the grade level skills.  This can be done in many ways, but my examples for you for Unit 2 of EM are problem-solving based.

Nrich math has many problems to challenge all of your students.  These I have pulled to align with Unit 2. They may take your students multiple days to complete--and that is fine!  They may still be trying to solve or explain this problem in Unit 4.  That is fine, too.  It is okay for them to struggle a little.  If you think these aren't enough of a challenge for your kiddos, explore the site a little--maybe you'll find something that will work better in your classroom.

Unit 2--Grade 1: 2,4,6,8: Students explore making number sentences
                              4 Dom: A number puzzle involving dominoes
                              One Big Triangle:  a puzzle for looking at sums of 10
                               Flower Petal Puzzles:  puzzles with sums of 10
                               

Unit 2--Grade 2: Ladybirds in the Garden:  Finding sums with specific addends
                               Tug of War:  A battle of addition and subtraction
                               Would you rather:  Halloween themed problem where students choose and 
                                justify
                               Big Magic:  Magic Square Puzzle
                               Nine Squares Puzzle:  Addition puzzle which requires perseverance

Unit 2--Grade 3:  Let us Divide: Different division story problems  
                                 True Scale Multiplication Table: Table that uses area arrays to show facts. 
                                Baking Cookies: Depth of Knowledge problem from Open Middle involving arrays.
                                The Kite:  multiplication word problem


Unit 2--Grade 4:  Inside Seven Squares : Finding area challenge
                                Why 24?: A problem that looks deeper at divisibility and prime numbers
                                Would you rather?:  Which income property is the better deal?
                                 Multiplication Table Sums:  A deeper dive into the multiplication table

Unit 2--Grade 5:  Thousands & Millions: Questions that make children look closer at a 
                                 million.
                                 Would you rather:  Children choose their choice of shopping sprees
                                 Genius Blocks:  Puzzles for addition of particular sums
                                 Pyramid Puzzle:  Logic Puzzle
                                 What is a Happy Number?:  Computation Puzzle

Finally, as we work to make our targets clear to our students, someone suggested a page of targets for each unit might help to keep our kiddos focused.  Each grade level's document has the target standards for each unit.  You may already have something like this that you use to focus your students, but, if not, feel free to use this in whichever way you find best.  I made them with 2 copies on a page to save a few trees.  :)

Grade 3  Standards per unit

Grade 4  Standards per unit

Grade 5  Standards per unit


If you have special enrichment activities for this unit that you would like to share with your colleagues, please do!  If you have a friend who might benefit from this post, please share it with them.  If you have something special you are looking for, please reach out to me, and I'll see what I can do!