5th Grade Math

Place students into groups of 4. Give each student a game board. (You may want to print the game boards on cardstock and then laminate for future use.)For each round, one student from the group will roll a die. Each student will then write down the number rolled in one of the blank boxes on his or h...

When it comes to teaching order of operations, hands-on and conceptually based activites are a must. Instruction must go beyond PEMDAS.

Math flaps for interactive notebooks! They cover lots of skills and include editable flaps!

Teaching perseverance and the math practice standards help build better risk takers, problem solvers, and so much more!

Reminder: These are *still* rough drafts. There are things I love on these pages and things that bug me and I can't wait to change them. In real life, these are covered with post-it notes with reminders to myself. (Like, lower this foldable or fix this or come up with a better way to word this.) I've gotten so much inspiration from the math blogging world. I'm pretty sure that almost none of my ideas are original. Though I may have come up with it, I think everything I have ever seen on...

Heart pounding, rapid breathing, nightmares...yep, it's that time of year. Back to school...dun dun dun. Okay I actually may be a little dramatic there (ask anyone who knows me, it's not uncommon!). But seriously, every year I feel like this. The anxiety of the unknown plus the excitement of getting back into the classroom and teaching. I think that when I get to the point in my career that I don't feel like this it will be a sign to quit teaching. There are many things that I worry about...

$4 This foldable includes 12 examples where students will need to model, summarize, write rules, add, subtract, multiply, & divide fractions. Some problems also involve integers and mixed numbers along with the fractions. You can use this to introduce each of the operations over a few days or use it as a review of previously learnined skills.

This mini book explains the meaning of multiples, common multiples and least common multiples, and then looks at factors, common factors and greatest common factors.

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Are you looking for a way to help your students become more confident in their math problem solving while also meeting their individual learning needs? These real world math problems will help you to meet the 5th grade Common Core Standards while also providing a challenge for your advanced learners...

Check out the original Figure Me Out math activity and learn how you can make this poster with your students. This beginning of the year math activity incorporates numbers (and computation) into a page about students' own lives. Click to read about this fun ice breaker math project that you could easily use for a "who am I" guessing game or bulletin board display for Parent's Night here on Shut the Door and Teach.

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Giant Wanted. Math Lesson on proportions and ratios.

You will download 26 solving proportions task cards for your 5th and 6th grade math students to practice and review writing proportional relationships equations. You may use them in your centers, task boxes, or independent work stations for a fun scavenger hunt activity or SCOOT game. They also work well as exit tickets, for morning work, bell ringers, early finishers, test prep, emergency sub plans, intervention work, and as quick formative assessments. Game ideas, a student response form...

This is a fun scavenger hunt in which students practice writing ratios in fractional form, with colons, and in words. Students make comparisons while writing ratios using commom items found in the classroom. The scavenger hunt may be modified to suit your own classroom.