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Top Virtual Math Manipulatives for Elementary Classrooms

In the field of elementary math education, the concept of abstract mathematical ideas can be challenging for young learners to grasp. However, with virtual math manipulatives, educators now have a powerful tool to bridge this gap and facilitate a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of virtual math manipulatives and how they can be seamlessly integrated into math lessons for elementary students.

Financial literacy is an essential life skill that all people must possess in order to be successful managers of their own finances. This skill is particularly important for children to develop early on in their lives, and integrating financial literacy into the elementary classroom is a great way to start. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of financial literacy in the elementary classroom and provide some strategies and examples for teachers to integrate it into their curriculum.

Review Decimals With Activities Your Students Will Love

I love teaching math activities with a theme. One of my favorites is GOING CAMPING. It's a fun way to incorporate and review important skills with decimals. This post will give you examples of review activities with decimals for fourth and fifth graders.

Make sure to download your FREE decimal resource at the end of the post.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day With Digital Fractions Activities

Fractions can be difficult to teach and sometimes hard for your students to understand. I often see that students just need extra practice. In this post, I've included some fun activities that will keep your students engaged and better understand the skills. Celebrate St. Patrick's Day With Digital Fractions Activities that your students will love.

Using Google Slides With Interactive Math Practice

I'm a huge fan of PowerPoint. In fact, I continue to use it as I design resources for my Teachers Pay Teachers store. With the current focus on distance learning, Google Slides and other Google apps have become the popular applications to use. You have the ability to share, edit, and collaborate. In this blog post, I'll share how you can Use Google Slides With Interactive Math Practice.

Reading and Graphing Coordinates on a Plane With Websites and Google Slides

One of my favorite games when I was growing up was Battleship. Little did I know, I was actually learning a math skill. Battleship and similar versions are still popular. In this post, I'll provide you with some fun websites and Google Slides activities that your students will love as they learn how to Read and Graph Coordinates on a Plane.

How to Improve Math Skills With Real-World Activities

How many times have you heard your students say, "When will I ever need to use this?" Well, give your students an opportunity to work real-world math problems. If you have read any of my blog posts on project based learning, I love engaging students in real-life situations. And I truly believe you can improve math skills with real-world activities.

Teaching math using restaurant menus is a fun way for your students to add or subtract decimals (or money) and work multi-step word problems. Plus, when they go to restaurants with their parents, students can help figure out the bill!

$Help your students improve math skills with real-world activities. Let students calculate orders, estimate, use a spreadsheet, and more. They'll learn so much! Your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students will fall in love with this project based learning unit. It's a great way for them to get real life skills in a fun, engaging manner. Click through now to see all the details. {first, second, third, fourth graders, PBL, real world, real-life, creative writing, fractions}$

Math Games

I love having games available in the classroom. Students learn so many skills when they play strategy games, board games and simulations. They are perfect for struggling learners because students are using their senses and higher level thinking skills. It's a wonderful way to present concepts and address differentiation in the classroom. Stronger students can even peer tutor.

1. By playing games, students learn and practice math skills. Students are able to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the concepts.

2. By playing games, students learn life and social skills. They can learn critical thinking, teamwork, to cooperate with others, sportsmanship, and communication.

3. By playing games, students are more apt to retain the information. Students not only learn math concepts, they learn skills in reading, following directions, and vocabulary.

4. Games are motivating! Students don't even realize they are learning when they play games.

5. Games are fun for all ages. Many games are still fun to play no matter how old you are!

Here are a few math games that have a spring theme. These are perfect for math stations:

1. Ice Cream Scoops - Just write numbers on cards. Students will take turns turning over a card and subtract it from 99. Then, continue subtracting from each difference. Write smaller numbers on the cards for easier problems.

2. Double Bee's - This is a fun game with multi-steps. Students will roll the dice. (You can use blank dice to add numbers 4-9.) Multiply the two numbers. Add the two numbers and then add those totals. Find the answers on the bee hive.

3. Flower Power and Sweet Treats - You can write your own problems for these games. Make sure to laminate all of these so you can use them over and over. Students get a different experience every time they play. Use erasable markers so you can just erase the problems and write new ones.

4. Roll and Cover and Catch the Bug - I love using themes for games. You can incorporate games into all curriculum areas. Catch the Bug involves working with coordinates and the flower themed Roll and Cover is also played with dice.

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Newspaper Flyers for Holiday Math Activities

Have you completed your Christmas Shopping? Do you have a budget? How many people do you need to shop for? And, where will you shop? Have you looked at all of the flyers the newspapers have to offer?

These are all questions you ask yourself when doing your Christmas shopping. There's a fun website your students or children can go to in order to plan their shopping. (or imaginary shopping)

1. Shopping at Troy's Toys - This website has the toys on a shelf and students have to add the total cost of the toys and then discount. In level 2, students actually find the percent of the discount.

2. Most Wanted Toys - This has to be one of my favorite activities. Students are given a budget of $1000 to purchase gifts for friends and relatives. They can either use the websites provided or use newspaper flyers from popular department stores. Students love this activity. I always give prizes for the winners. (candy cane or chocolate) I've noticed that the link to the spreadsheet is no longer available, so I've provided one for you. Just click HERE.

3. Students can cut out coupons to complete different types of math problems. They can even cut out the ads and write their own word problems. Or, teachers can use the ads for:

- percent of discounts

- comparing prices

- working with decimals

- place value

Hands-On Math at the Grocery Store

Grocery Store Math - Hands-On Activities, Get your children involved while shopping for groceries, use estimation, read labels and plan meals with a budget

During the summer when your children get bored, put them to work at the grocery. This is a wonderful time to get your children involved with purchasing your groceries. And, you can't find better activities for real-life learning. Teachers, there are activities you can do in your classroom, too!