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6th Grade Math: Number System Bundle: 8 Activities: Integers, Decimals teaching resource preview
Fractions & decimals

6th Grade Math: Number System Bundle: 8 Activities: Integers, Decimals

Rotate through fraction-operations stations (solving word problems, playing a fraction addition/subtraction dice game, scaling a recipe, group tasks), solve multiplication/division word problems, complete a decimal operations assessment, work factors/multiples/prime/composite stations, apply integers to real-life situations, plot…

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Math Tests 3: Grade 5 teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Math Tests 3: Grade 5

Solve column addition/subtraction, complete a grouped-frequency tally chart from raw height data, measure angles with a protractor, compare and order decimals, classify shapes, fill in missing-number equations, calculate fractions of shapes, complete a multiplication square, read charts and construct a bar chart, perform decimal…

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Order of Operations with Exponents teaching resource preview
Measurement & money

Order of Operations with Exponents

Students solve numerical expressions of increasing complexity (from review without exponents, through exponents with/without parentheses, to word-problem translation), showing work step by step; teacher may randomize numbers to generate new worksheet versions.

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Careers Now and Then | Framing Workers Unit | Ottawa Tribe teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Careers Now and Then | Framing Workers Unit | Ottawa Tribe

Across the week: quick-write daily; solve a framer's siding/area word problem with escalating fact-fluency and measurement/fraction demands; research vocabulary; read about Native American (Ottawa/Chippewa) building history; build a popsicle-stick longhouse or birch-bark scroll to specified dimensions; write a persuasive, narrative, or…

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Grade 6 Math Curriculum | 36 Weekly Worksheets teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Grade 6 Math Curriculum | 36 Weekly Worksheets

Students complete weekly skill worksheets by solving computation and word problems (e.g. writing/simplifying ratios, finding unit rates, converting fractions/decimals/percents, solving one-step equations, computing area/volume, finding mean/median/mode).

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Pluto, the Maybe Planet: A Cross-Curricular Unit teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Pluto, the Maybe Planet: A Cross-Curricular Unit

cross-curricular nonfiction unit teaching about Pluto's 2006 reclassification/demotion and the science behind planetary classification (orbit shape, size, ice-dwarf composition, Kuiper Belt Objects), paired with reading, vocabulary, math, and writing activities

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5–6
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Math Puzzlers - Grade 6 teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Math Puzzlers - Grade 6

Students solve crossword-grid-style puzzles where Across and Down clues are arithmetic expressions whose numeric answers fill the grid cells; also complete word problems and cumulative reviews.

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6
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Push to the Pole: Polar Explorers: Emergency Lesson Plan teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Push to the Pole: Polar Explorers: Emergency Lesson Plan

Students read the biographical passage, then complete a fact-vs-opinion identification exercise, a first-person journal-entry writing task imagining being on the 1909 expedition, a geography/map short-answer exercise, a vocabulary exercise on prefixes, math word problems based on facts from the passage, and a themed crossword puzzle.

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8th Grade Math Bingo Review #2 teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

8th Grade Math Bingo Review #2

Make a 4x4 bingo board and fill in given answer values in random order; solve teacher-displayed problems one at a time (rate-time-distance word problems, unit price word problems, solve for x/y in a system, find slope from a graphed line, find slope from an equation, find slope from two points, find the y-intercept from a graph), mark…

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8
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FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early: A Personal Financial Literacy and Math Lesson teaching resource preview
Measurement & money

FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early: A Personal Financial Literacy and Math Lesson

Follow the slide explanation of what FIRE is and how it works (spend less, invest more, save 25x annual expenses, withdraw 4% annually); work through a worked example (Lily and Martin); use an online investment calculator; discuss pros/cons and a "Barista FIRE" alternative; then solve six practice word problems calculating FIRE savings…

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8–12
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Critical Thinking: Morning Work Warm-Ups 5th 6th 7th 8th Homeroom teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Critical Thinking: Morning Work Warm-Ups 5th 6th 7th 8th Homeroom

Each day, students complete one themed prompt: Math Monday (word problem), Trivia Tuesday (general knowledge), Would You Rather Wednesday (opinion + justification), Thesaurus Thursday (find synonyms, write a sentence), and Focus Friday (word puzzles/riddles).

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5–8
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Term 2 Critical Thinking: Morning Work Warm-Ups: 60 More Days! teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Term 2 Critical Thinking: Morning Work Warm-Ups: 60 More Days!

Answer a different daily prompt each day of the week (math word problem on Monday, general trivia Tuesday, 'would you rather' critical-thinking Wednesday, thesaurus/vocabulary Thursday, puzzle Friday), recording answers in a notebook or on a whiteboard.

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5–8
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Reporting on Rainforests: A Cross-Curricular Unit teaching resource preview
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Reporting on Rainforests: A Cross-Curricular Unit

Students read a narrative science-report passage about rainforest layers, biodiversity, deforestation threats, and ecotourism; complete a graphic organizer contrasting reasons the rainforest is in danger with reasons to preserve it; write a free-verse poem about a rainforest animal or plant; correct improperly written compound words…

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5–6
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8th Grade Math Bingo Review #1 teaching resource preview
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8th Grade Math Bingo Review #1

Make a 4x4 bingo board and fill in given answer values in random order; solve teacher-displayed problems one at a time (find missing triangle side, find distance between two points, find angle measures from parallel lines cut by a transversal, compare/order numbers, solve rate-time-distance and unit-cost word problems, locate a…

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8
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Common Core Math Activities For Grade 6 teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Common Core Math Activities For Grade 6

Write and simplify ratios, solve proportions and unit-rate problems, perform order-of-operations and fraction/decimal operations, find GCF, simplify and evaluate expressions, write and solve equations and inequalities, compute area/perimeter/volume/surface area, classify angles, calculate mean/median/mode and probability, interpret a…

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6
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6th Grade Math: Geometry Bundle: 5 Activities: Area, Perimeter, Volume teaching resource preview
Measurement & money

6th Grade Math: Geometry Bundle: 5 Activities: Area, Perimeter, Volume

In a Jigsaw activity, become an 'expert' on one area formula (triangle, parallelogram, or trapezoid), then teach it to two peers and record all three formulas; rotate through 5 math stations solving perimeter/area/volume word problems (e.g. finding box height from volume, flowerbed area and edging); draw polygons on a 4-quadrant…

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5–7
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Math Reproducibles - Grade 6 teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Math Reproducibles - Grade 6

Complete individual reproducible worksheet pages (fill in missing numbers, solve computation problems, color/count, answer word problems, read graphs, etc.), one skill-focused page per topic.

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6
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Common Core Math Activities For Grade 7 teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Common Core Math Activities For Grade 7

Write and simplify ratios, solve proportions and unit-rate problems, perform integer/fraction operations, find GCF, simplify and evaluate expressions, write and solve equations/inequalities, compute area/perimeter/volume/surface area of 2D and 3D shapes, classify angles, calculate mean/median/mode and probability, interpret a histogram,…

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7
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Baseball Thematic Unit teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Baseball Thematic Unit

Read short nonfiction/narrative passages about baseball (a personal narrative, the history of baseball, a Babe Ruth biography, a female-pitcher feature) and answer close-reading questions; complete a main-idea/details graphic organizer; respond to persuasive/expository writing prompts and a web-quest research organizer on famous…

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2–5
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Careers Now and Then | Measure Area with Framers Day 1 | Ottawa Tribe teaching resource preview
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Careers Now and Then | Measure Area with Framers Day 1 | Ottawa Tribe

Complete a quick-write; read the framer's siding word problem (calculate how many 8-foot, 7-1/4"-wide siding pieces are needed for classroom-wall dimensions, accounting for a 1-1/4" overlap) and solve it; practice x7 multiplication/division facts; do independent practice finding area/cost of a sample wall; work toward a Friday…

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Math Skills for Elementary Students teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Math Skills for Elementary Students

Students match problems to answers, fill in missing addends/factors/numbers, solve word problems, color by computed answer, roll dice and compute, solve maze-style chained operations, evaluate true/false number statements, and solve puzzles with a missing number, for each of the four operations in turn.

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1–5
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Submersibles: Exploring a New World: Ready-To-Use Activities for Substitute Teachers teaching resource preview
Whole-number operations

Submersibles: Exploring a New World: Ready-To-Use Activities for Substitute Teachers

Read a short dialogue-style informational story about submersibles (the vehicle Alvin), fill in a graphic organizer with details from the article, write a short personal narrative imagining themselves as an explorer, build vocabulary words from Latin/Greek roots and prefixes (sub, hydro, therm, tele, graph) and define them, and solve…

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4–5
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