These Thanksgiving math activities include options for differentiation and opportunities with math tasks and projects. These differentiated pages are included in my Thanksgiving resource.
Thanksgiving Math Activities-The Cost of Cooking
Two-step word problems are always a
Teaching Equivalent Fractions
After students have ample experience developing fraction number sense, they will come to the realization that some fractions have different names but are the same size. As we work with fractions, I introduce the term equivalent fractions, even though I am not currently teaching
Introducing Fraction Concepts
Fractions are a critical concept for upper elementary students, and fractions are a topic that often present some difficulty for students. Fortunately, there are MANY ways to make fractions meaningful and fun for students. In this post, I'll share some of my favorite strategies
Comparing Fractions
Since my students had a lot of varied experiences working with fractions and understanding the size of fractions, comparing fractions was fairly natural for most students. Once I felt like students had a solid general fraction number sense, we started to dig deeper so that
Third Grade Fractions
Fractions are such an important component of third grade math standards. In fact, I've been working diligently creating a new fraction unit specifically designed for teaching third grade fraction standards. The emphasis of the unit is conceptual lessons and teaching for
