Multiplication and division

Spring break has officially begun and my first goal of making some great new activities is quickly becoming a reality! So many new activiti...

This is an amazing art and math lesson that I got from a teacher at a conference who did teach a district over from me, but is now getting her PhD. She always had amazing stuff to present at conference. (You're amazing, Mary Franco!) Anyway, this lesson involves Paul Klee and multiplication. I made a little three page Smart Notebook lesson about Klee's work "Once Emerged From the Gray of Night" (where I used to show a poster of it) and have the students talk about what's more important--the...

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I made this! Multiplication Properties poster for fifth grade math. Commutative, Associative (my favorite), Distributive, Identity, and Zero Properties.

It has been about two weeks since my wife and I got back from Australia. Although it's nice to be back home, I still find myself wishing I had a few more days in Sydney! If you follow me on Instagram (@middleschoolmathman), you probably saw a few of these pictures along the way, but here are a few of my favorites (and then I promise I will get to the freebies!). Now...on to the freebies! As many of you, and myself included, are recharging batteries and getting geared up for another school...

Multiply and divide Decimals

I created a fun worksheet that is part of my Christmas Common Core Division Pack with Elves "doing" problems, making mistakes that I see my students make.

Division: Reindeer Remainder- a festive division unit covering remainders, word problems and rules of divisibility. Fun math centers, partner practice and independent work included! Fancy Free in Fourth

Long division anchor chart...really cute way to remember steps...

We have 15 days left. Not that I'm counting or anything ;) And, I'm exhausted as all get out. How about you?! So I'm just dropping in

Teaching Division with Math Children's Books -- Make Division Lessons Fun! 3rd to 5th grade

We continued our division studies by reading and sharing the following book: If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a cute tale that follows an insect “army” as they try to parade before the queen. They have 25 soldiers, and no matter how many rows they make, poor Joe always ends up a remainder […]

I love using math games in the classroom, especially those that are simple to use, quick to learn and effective. Below I have 5 of my favori...

7th Grade Math Interactive Notebook - Maria Gonzalez - Picasa Web Albums

A FREE Division Poster for vocabulary. Students will be able to remember the vocabulary names and its position in three division equations. There is also a black and white copy of this poster. Click the picture to download this FREEBIE! Are you looking for some division games? This Division Pack is loaded with fun division games. It has 14 game boards along with 100 task cards to play the games. The task cards are separated into levels according to what your students need to work on...