See how I used this lesson in my classroom by clicking HERE: Creating a Bunny with a Tangram

Titles of Tangram Picture Books:

Grandfather Tang’s Story by Robert Andrew Parker

Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes by Grace Maccarone

After doing this activity with your students, I would love to see the finished product! You can tag me on Instagram by using inspireme_asap or by emailing me your pictures at inspiremeasap@gmail.com

Your little chefs will be serving up fractions any way they like it….all while incorporating math and writing skills! The focus of this lesson is to use art to teach fraction, decimal, and percent equivalents.

Prior to teaching this lesson, I like to read the story, Fractions, Decimals, and Percents by David Adler. Once my students have a solid understanding about how to change a fraction into a decimal and a percent, they are ready for this activity! Students choose their ingredients for their own personal pizza and find the fraction, decimal, percent equivalents.

Once their pizza is created, the little chefs then start their expository writing and write step by step directions for creating a fraction pizza.

File includes colorful learning target posters that can be printed for a bulletin board or projected onto your SmartBoard, directions, a variety of pizza ingredients that are in color and black/white, and student reproducibles.

Check out my blog post to see what examples my third graders found:
https://inspiremeasap.com/2014/10/awesome-arrays.html

Students cut out the definitions, shapes, and names…mix them up and then match them correctly!

I hope you enjoy this freebie! Melissa :)

I have an interactive way to teach rounding to the nearest ten and hundred with your students! Just print out the number cards and gather dry erase board materials for your kiddos!

To see this lesson in action, visit my blog post below:

How to Teach Rounding

*****The Venn diagram is also part of the Crash course in Guided math and Math Workshop 101: The Ultimate math Resource!***

This 30 page file includes an interactive graphic organizer that will help your students understand the units that describe weight, height, temperature, amount, and distance.

There are colorful posters and anchor charts to help define each of the different areas of measurement.

This file is also part of my “Calling All Animal Lovers: It’s a Paw-rrific Paw-ty” file.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Melissa

I like to post these addition problems in different areas of the classroom. My students “roam the classroom” to answer each addition problem as I work with a group of students or walk around to assist students.

File includes 28 task cards, an answer key, and an anchor chart to display for how to use expanded for to add.

Specific standard addressed:
CCSS.Math.Content.3.NBT.A.2
Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

If you have any questions, please email me!

Thanks so much for visiting my TPT store,
Melissa

Want a creative and fun way to wrap up your unit on fractions? Host a fashion fraction fashion show! Students turn into models and dress up to represent fractions with their clothing and accessories. Models walk down the runway and the audience participate by writing the fraction represented.

File includes:
Detailed suggestions and ideas to host a successful fashion show, pictures included!
Notes to send home, invited parents to the fashion show and for requested supplies
Colorful posters to print for fashion show: VIP, concessions, awards, score cards for the audience members
Pages for the students to record their fractions for the friends
An adorable art project (tracers included), where the students recreate their fashion fractions

Your students will have so much fun strutting their fractions down the runway, they won’t even believe they are learning about math!

Thanks for visiting my store!

Please let me know if you have any questions,
Melissa
inspiremeasap.blogspot.com

A,B,C…Where’s My Line of Symmetry? File includes:
* Detailed directions
* Several colorful bulletin board headers
* Student worksheet and answer key

Lesson is appropriate for grades 1-4, however it specifically meets standard 4.G.A.3 for fourth grade.

*****The binder cover pages are also part of my other math file: Crash course in Guided math and Math Workshop 101: The Ultimate math Resource!*****

Get ready to take your math fact practice to the next level- using a medical theme for inspiration! This file includes:

1. Ideas/files for the teacher to organize a binder to keep track of data
2. Ideas/files for the students to organize their data
3. Creative and OUTSIDE – THE – BOX thinking incentives for students to work hard to master their facts
4. Creative incentives for the class to work hard and master their facts
5. Common core alignment!!!
6. Fact family flashcards for practicing facts and a fact flip book for the students to practice their facts
7. Assessments- traditionally known as “mad minutes,”
8. Resources for parents to help their child at home with their facts
9. Lots of colorful posters, and tips for how to implement this into your classroom!
10. Innovative ways to track student progress and keep them motivated- no embarrassment here!