This resource includes over 400 pages of activities that promote number sense and math reasoning.

Number sense is critical for math understanding. Without number sense, it is difficult for students to compute and to find relationships within numbers or equations. Students need visual, perceptual, and conceptual understandings of quantities to understand numbers relationships, to work flexibly with numbers, and to reason with numbers. Number sense is what allows students to master more challenging math standards such as multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals.

As an upper elementary teacher, I once thought these activities, especially subitizing, unitizing, and counting, were primarily geared toward the lower elementary grades. However, I soon learned that they can also play an important role in developing number sense in the upper elementary classroom.

This resource is meant to be used as a math warm-up. Students should gather together as a whole group. Each day students will complete a different type of activity. These activities consistently spiral and increase in difficulty as the year progresses. Of course, it’s best to specifically tailor your instruction to your students’ needs, so this resource is 100% editable.

Total Pages: 400+
File Size: 32 MB

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Have you watched your students simply guess at word problems or consistently revert to the operation they are most comfortable with? I’d venture to guess that most of us have! That’s I love implementing numberless word problems.

In numberless word problems, all numbers are removed temporarily while students process what the situation is and determine what information is needed to solve the problem. Then, numbers are revealed until a solution is reached. These problems allow students to spend time focusing on the context of the problem. Removing the numbers prevents students from trying to solve a problem without fully understanding the problem.

These word problems focus on one type of word problem each week. There are five slides for each of the following types of word problems. If you view the slides in slide show mode, you will be able to reveal one portion of the problem at a time. I have also included a paper version of each of the problems below.

• joining problem-result unknown
• joining problem-change unknown
• joining problem-start unknown
• removing problem-result unknown
• removing problem-change unknown
• removing problem-start unknown
• parts and wholes-whole unknown
• parts and wholes-part unknown
• comparing problem-difference unknown
• comparing problem-smaller unknown
• comparing problem-bigger unknown
• equal groups-product unknown
• equal groups-group size unknown
• equal groups-number of groups unknown
• array-product unknown
• array-group size unknown
• array-number of groups unknown
• comparing problems-product unknown
• comparing problems-group size unknown
• comparing problems-number of groups unknown.

I review through independent practice sheets, which include all new word problems. You may also use the Types of Word Problems Booklets that have students SOLVE and WRITE their own word problems.

When beginning this strategy, one of my greatest concerns was how I would implement this AND number talks. After considerable planning, I decided that I would incorporate these numberless word problems and number talks into one lesson. Hopefully, this planning will save you HOURS of time! If you don’t utilize number talks, don’t worry! You can simply omit that portion of the lesson. Each week students focus on one type of word problem and one number talk strategy. The numbers I have selected for the word problem will lend themselves to a number talk using that particular strategy.

Since this resource is best completed with the teacher, I did not include answer keys.

Total Pages: 301
File Size: 52 MB

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