December Math Resource Roundup

Ready for December? 

Let's look at math activities to engage all learners this month!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. With holiday activities, projects, and more for students to be engaged in this month. There are many different activities students will love that they can work independently on or within a group of classmates.

December Math Resources

1. December Math Worksheets

Perfect for skills review! Students are engaged with different types of math puzzles and printables. Easy to engage any learner. Perfect for grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. These activities can be used in a variety of ways. Most popular is with a substitute teacher or for class work. Click HERE and try one today!

 

2. December Math Writing Centers

Do your students practice vocabulary in class? This is an easy center activity to add your classroom. Just print and go! Students will read the directions to scaffold their learning of math concepts to figure out how to write math sentences that make sense. Vocabulary for each grade level 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Try one of the Write the Room with Math activities with your students this month!

3. Christmas Math Activities

Always a hit with students before the long Winter Break. Take a day or two to review math skills with a holiday theme. Students will have to figure out Elf payroll, how much toys cost, and more holiday math fun. Download one of the math activities for your students too!

4. Winter Break Math Packet

Do you send a packet home over the long Winter break with students? It's a great idea for students to stay refreshed with a couple math activities to do. Parents will also appreciate having a couple activities for students to do over the break at home. Download the FREE Winter Math Packet.

5. Christmas Math Coloring Pages

Do your students LOVE to color? This is a fun activity whether you need to review multiplication and division or proportions and equations. Students will be engaged reviewing key math skills with a coloring brain break. Making math art with their answers. Download one of the printables for your students today!

6. December Math Bulletin Board

A favorite monthly activity is the Math Bulletin Board set. Students create the bulletin board with their work. It's easy to print and display with titles for the board included. Students take ownership when their work is displayed and proud of what they've accomplished every month.  Download the December Math Bulletin Board this month!

7. Christmas Math Tessellations 

This is a new favorite that your students will love creating art with math. Creating tessellations can be tricky, but with the printables provided students will scaffold their learning of geometry. Try making gifts, stockings, trees, and more.  Download the Christmas Math Tessellations today!

Happy Teaching!

Christmas Tessellations Math Project

 
Ready for creating art in math class?

Get your students in the holiday spirit with this fun and engaging math project! 

Students create Math Art with tessellations. This is a fun December project for the math classroom. Try one or all of the 7 projects with your students. 

7 Christmas Tessellation Math Projects

1. Make Tree Tessellations 

Students line up the edges to create tessellations with trees.

A fun activity for students to create art with trees. Using different colors adds visual interest. Applying Geometry standards with lining up the trees with the same figure tree. 

2. Build Holiday Bell Tessellations

Use holiday handbells to create tessellations. Students have to figure out how to tessellate handbells with lines and figures.

3. Stencil Stockings for the Holidays

Students will enjoy making fun holiday stockings. Put a flair on each stocking with your own unique drawings. Tessellating stockings is creative and fun. 

4. Creating Cookie Tessellations

Students have to figure out if gingerbread cookies can tessellate. A great investigation project into what makes a tessellation work. 

5. Giving Gifts of Tessellations

A favorite activity for the holidays is gift giving. The bows make the present pop in this art project. Design with different colors to create a masterpiece.

6. Snowball Tessellations

Another great investigation into what types of shapes make tessellations. Students experiment with snowballs and similar shapes to figure out if they tessellate.

7. Ticket Tessellations

Students tessellate train tickets for the holidays. A fun seasonal favorite. Using rectangles and circles to make continuing figures.

Download the Christmas Tessellations Math Project today!

Happy Teaching, 

Election Day Math Worksheets for Middle School

Ready for Election Day in the United States? 

Get ready for 2020 Presidential Election with Math activities! 

The Elections held in November will be important for the United States. These math activities are perfect for a Middle School Math or Social Studies class with your students! This packet teaches students about elections in the United States, how to count electoral votes, and applications of elections math facts.

Click HERE to download. 

THIS ELECTIONS MATH ACTIVITIES PACKET FEATURES:

• 7 different Engaging Math & Science Activities
• NO PREP, Print & GO Activities! (Only materials needed: Red and Blue colored crayons or markers, paper clips, and a pencil).
• FUN & rigorous activities centered on math and social studies middle school math curriculum
• HIGH QUALITY CLIPART is included
• Great activities to make applications to Math & Social Studies
• Topics covered: Operations with Decimals, Operations with Exponents, Operations with Integers, United States Map, Bar Graphs, and Graphing on a Coordinate Plane.

Click HERE to download. 

Activities Included:

1. Election Math {2 versions with answer key}
2. Class Election {2 versions}
3. Electoral College {with answer key}
4. Election Equations {2 versions with answer key}
5. Spin & Vote! {2 versions with answer key}
6. Find the Ballot Box & Voting Booth {game, graphing on coordinate plane}
7. Number Puzzle {with answer key}

Your students will enjoy learning about how math is important in an election. Students will learn about the votes in the Electoral College process, how each state is important, and other important Election Math facts. Engage your students this year with election math activities. 

Happy Teaching!

Digital Math Activities for Middle School

Need engaging digital math activities for middle school? 

These digital math activities are great for practice, applications, and math skills review. A COMPLETE BUNDLE covering all 6th, 7th, & 8th grade standards! These digital activities are easy to assign and engage your students. A must-have set for any middle school math teacher using Google Classroom. Easy to add activities to your digital math class through Google Apps!

Please see the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included click HERE!

By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 40% off the price of the individual units.

FEATURES:

1. Integers
2. Factors & Multiples
3. Rational Numbers
4. Operations with Fractions
5. Operations with Decimals
6. Representing Rates & Ratios
7. Applying Rates & Ratios
8. Percents
9. Equivalent Numerical Expressions
10. Equivalent Algebraic Expressions
11. Equations & Relationships
12. Relationships in Two Variables
13. Distance & Area in the Coordinate Plane
14. Area & Polygons
15. Surface Area & Volume of Solids
16. Displaying, Analyzing, & Summarizing Data
17. Adding & Subtracting Integers
18. Multiplying & Dividing Integers
19. Rational Numbers
20. Rates & Proportionality
21. Proportions & Percents
22. Expressions & Equations
23. Inequalities
24. Modeling Geometric Figures
25. Circumference, Area, & Volume
26. Random Samples & Populations
27. Analyzing & Comparing Data
28. Experimental Probability
29. Theoretical Probability & Simulations
30. Real Numbers
31. Exponents & Scientific Notation
32. Proportional Relationships
33. Non-Proportional Relationships
34. Writing Linear Equations
35. Functions
36. Linear Equations
37. Solving Systems of Linear Equations
38. Transformations & Congruence
39. Transformations & Similarity
40. Angle Relationships in Parallel Lines & Triangles
41. The Pythagorean Theorem
42. Volume
43. Scatter Plots
44. Two-Way Tables

Answer keys are also provided.

This bundle is perfect for learning and practicing all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade math standards.

Want to have all of your lesson plans done? 

Ready to just click and add to your math classroom? 

Yes. 

How other teachers have used Digital Math activities. 

"My students loved the activities and I loved that there were activities for each standard. I also liked that I could post them on Google Classroom." -Elizabeth 

"This was an excellent resource during remote learning. It was engaging for my students. It was also really easy to work with the seller to put the bundle together!" - Danielle

Take note: These are digital math activities for Google Apps use only. You can use any of these activities with a secure classroom website that uses Google Apps. 

Happy Teaching!

How to Assign Digital Math Activities

Is your school going virtual this year? 

Do you want to assign digital math activities that help your students? 

How to Assign Digital Math Activities

Assigning digital math activities doesn't have to be difficult. Students will do work in small chunks. Think about how you will assign the math activities beforehand. After setting up the expectations for the assignment, then give your students time to complete and turn it in. 

Assign Digital Math Activities Using Google Apps

The best way to assign digital math activities is with Google Apps. There are a plethora of math activities for students to complete with Google Apps. The possibilities are endless. 

Students can access Google Slides with moveable pieces. Create different math equations and solutions with number tiles that they move (as pictured above). Students enjoy being able to have an interactive part with their learning. 

Students also can create different presentations and math projects with Google Slides. This is great for students looking to make their own learning. Google Forms are an awesome tool for self grading. Students receive instant results based on how they answer questions. 

Types of Digital Math Activities

• Vocabulary math activities help students practice terms in context. Students gain conceptual understanding and master key words for math. 
• Practice math activities aide students in developing skills. Giving students ten problems or less of practice ensures that they will complete their assignments. 
• Assessment math activities allows teachers to see where the students are. Did they master the skill or are the kids still developing? 

Try a Digital Math Activity today!  

The following digital math activities are all free for use with Google Apps. 

Digital Math Activities for Equations

Digital Math Activities for Surface Area

Happy Teaching!

Summer Math Packet 5th grade to 6th grade

Do you want to assign your 5th graders a fun summer review?

Do you want to challenge students in reviewing Math Skills for 6th grade?

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If you said YES, this is the perfect Summer Math packet that your fifth graders will complete! Thousands of students have finished this packet and avoided the Summer slide. It's full of fifth-grade common core math problems that focus on fun coloring, puzzles, and problem solving.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

How to use it:

1. A fun review at the end of 5th grade during May & June or after testing!

2. A summer packet for students to complete at home during June, July, & August!

3. A beginning of 6th

grade year review activities during August & September!!

THIS SUMMER MATH PACKET FEATURES:

• This is a 30 day Summer Math Activities Packet. It is the perfect math review to help students avoid the Summer Slide!
• FUN activities and puzzles centered on reviewing math curriculum.
• Designed for students who have completed 5th grade and are going into 6th grade. Great end of year review for 5th Grade or Beginning of the Year for 6th Grade!
• Includes 5th grade math problems for review and practice. Tied to benchmarks required for 6th grade.
• Keep your students on target with the tracking page. As they complete pages in the packet, students will color a part of a beach picture until they complete the packet.
• ALL ANSWER KEYS are included.
• A Sample Letter to parents & students from Math Department. (I use this every year when I send home the summer packet!)
• Certificate of completion for finishing this FUN Summer Packet.
• Lots of coloring fun! Students are encouraged to color every page of the Summer math packet.

Table of Contents:

Days 1-4: Writing simple expressions & analyzing patterns

Days 5-8: Performing operations with decimals

Days 9-13: Adding and subtracting fractions

Days 14-17: Multiplying and dividing fractions

Days 18-19: Understanding place value

Day 20-22: Converting measures

Day 23-24: Representing and interpreting data

Day 25-26: Understanding volume

Day 27-29: Graphing points

Day 30: Classifying 2-D figures

Other teachers and parents have left the following reviews:

"Great summer review for my son!" -Christina

"I used these for summer tutoring and it made math so much more fun!" -Allison

"Great resource, and I love that you have so many levels!" -Faith

"I am using this resource to review with students entering 6th grade! They love the graphics and how fun each page is!" -Gabriella

"My kiddos are working through this packet this summer." -Melissa

"My sixth-grade boy I tutor loves this packet so far!" -Cherie

"I love this! I am actually using it to review math with my 5th and 6th grade group for ELD. So I am focusing on the language of math and this is working really well." -Teacher

"So many great was to use this packet! Too bad I don't teach 5/6 anymore. I'm teaching 3/4 this year but this resource is so good I'll probably buy that one too." -Sandra

"Sent this home as a summer packet to be returned to me in August.  Many students brought it back complete saying that it was easy for them to figure out how to do on their own.  Thanks!" -Teacher

Keep Summer math exciting and your students will enjoy doing it! I have taught summer school and assigned summer assignments, but the one that works is the math that is interactive, challenging, and fun. I hope this is an engaging and fun Summer packet for your fifth grade students to complete.

Happy Teaching!