Digital Choice Board | Rational Numbers

his engaging and interactive digital activity is a fantastic resource for eighth-grade students seeking diverse ways to strengthen their understanding of rational numbers.

Featuring adorable graphics and an intuitive interface, this choice board is designed to captivate and motivate learners. Within this resource, you will find three distinct activities, each comprising ten problems.

1. Identifying Rational Numbers: This activity focuses on honing students' skills in recognizing rational numbers. By presenting various numbers, both whole and decimal, learners must determine whether they are rational or not. This exercise encourages critical thinking and reinforces the concept of rationality.

1. Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers: Here, students delve into the realm of arithmetic operations with rational numbers. Through ten thought-provoking problems, learners practice adding and subtracting rational numbers, sharpening their computational skills and building confidence in working with these numerical entities.

1. Multiplying and Dividing Rational Numbers: This activity empowers students to explore the world of rational number multiplication and division. By providing a series of equations involving rational numbers, this section challenges learners to calculate products and quotients. Strengthening their grasp of these fundamental operations fosters a deeper understanding of rational numbers.

The beauty of this choice board lies in its accessibility. Being an online resource with interactive pages, all you need to do is share the link with your students, and they're ready to dive right in! No additional Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins are required, simplifying the process for both you and your students.

The versatility of this resource allows you to utilize it in various ways, such as:

• Additional Materials for Remediation: Use the choice board as supplementary materials to support students who may require extra practice or reinforcement.

• Bell Ringer/Warm-up: Begin your math lessons with a quick warm-up exercise to activate students' prior knowledge and prepare them for the day's lesson.

• Emergency Sub Lesson Plan: In the event of an unexpected absence, the choice board serves as a comprehensive and independent lesson plan that ensures uninterrupted learning.

• Early Finishers: Engage early finishers with a meaningful and enjoyable activity, promoting independent exploration and consolidation of rational number concepts.

With this No Prep Choice Board, practicing rational numbers becomes an enjoyable and efficient experience for both educators and students. Empower your eighth graders with this captivating resource and witness their growth and confidence in working with rational numbers.

Pdf with the link to the activity

COMMON CORE STANDARDS:

CCSS 8.NS.A.1

Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.

CCSS 8.NS.A.2

Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions (e.g., π²). For example, by truncating the decimal expansion of √2, show that √2 is between 1 and 2, then between 1.4 and 1.5, and explain how to continue on to get better approximations.