Math Activities

  • Exploring Volume: A FREE Hands-On Activity

    I feel like I’ve been filling my blog with so many geometry activities lately, and today will be no exception.  #sorrynotsorry  This is seriously one of my favorite units.  This week, we were finally ready to dive into three-dimensional objects! I partnered up my students, passed out a handful of blocks, and gave them a […]

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  • Using Nets to Find Surface Area: A Free Math Activity

    Why does surface area have to be so intimidating?  My kids are excellent at calculating the areas of squares, rectangles, and triangles.  Buuuuuut, the second you throw multiple parts and pieces together, it becomes instantly overwhelming. To practice finding surface area, I passed out random nets to my students in class.  I asked them to […]

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  • Area of a Triangle: Discovering the Formula

    My area and perimeter unit is seriously one of my favorite things to teach in fifth!  I love the formulas, the real life math experiences, and the hands on learning that can happen.  This week, I did a simple, yet totally powerful demonstration to help my students discover, and most of all remember, the formula […]

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  • Math Review Challenge: An Engaging Kahoot Activity

    Over the summer, I attended a conference designed for integrating technology into daily instruction.  I love learning and discovering new ideas to implement in my classroom.  One of the ideas that I have used often this year is Kahoot!  I even shared the above image on Facebook and Instagram, and had so many people commented […]

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  • Quotients as Fractions, Decimals, and Remainders!

    Each year of teaching is a live and learn process, right?  Last year, when I taught my students how to express quotients as fractions, decimals, and remainders, I taught them one by one.  When we would work on division of whole numbers, I would have them write quotients as remainders.  Soon after, we would cover […]

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