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Saddle up for an exhilarating mathematical journey with this no prep "Kentucky Derby Riddle" solving equations activity! This engaging resource combines the excitement of the Kentucky Derby with the thrill of solving two-step equations, making math learning a memorable and enjoyable experience for students.

In this activity, students will embark on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the riddle: "What do you call a horse that can't lose the Kentucky Derby?" Through a series of carefully crafted two-step equations, students will apply their equation-solving skills to uncover the answer to this intriguing question.

But that's not all! We all understand the importance of differentiation in the classroom, which is why included is a modified version of the Kentucky Derby Riddle activity. This additional resource ensures that all students, regardless of their learning needs and abilities, can participate and enjoy the equation-solving adventure.

Key Features:

• Engaging Kentucky Derby-themed riddle that captures students' interest and curiosity.
• Practice solving two-step equations in a fun and interactive way.
• Encourages critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Promotes collaboration and active participation in the classroom.
• Modified version included for differentiated instruction and accessibility.
• Ideal for middle and high school students of all proficiency levels.

Whether used as a standalone activity, a warm-up exercise, or part of a math center rotation, our Kentucky Derby Riddle activity is guaranteed to spark enthusiasm and foster a love for equation-solving in your classroom. Watch as students race towards mathematical success while unraveling the mystery of the Kentucky Derby!

Included:

Kentucky Derby Solving Equations Riddle (Modified Version Included)

Answer Key

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Knowing every detail on your calculator and how it works, is the BEST feeling... as you do not have to interrupt your teacher a hundred times for help!

Independent work by students – no prep needed by teacher. Just print a copy of the tutorial and task for each student and watch them learn how to use their calculators well. This step by step Rounding and Decimals Tutorial, with images of the calculator and the relevant keys, guides students to independently become 100% comfortable with their calculator. The aim of the tutorial is DIY for students. Print the tutorial, hand it to students and watch them be able to ...

1. Round any decimal to the required number of decimals.

2. Change the rounding of numbers between 0 and 9 decimal places.

3. Complete tasks, tests, examinations and other assessments correctly when you give instructions about rounding.

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This calculator tutorial and task series addresses the challenge of a classroom full of students who have a variety of different calculators. The series contains eight of the most popular calculators used in US Middle Schools.

TI-30Xa, TI-30XIIS, TI-30XS Multiview, TI 34 Multiview, TI-36X Pro, Casio fx-300ES Plus, Casio fx-300MS Plus, Casio fx-300MS

Round your answer to the nearest whole number, Round your answer to the nearest tenth, Round your answer to the nearest hundredth, Round your answer to the nearest thousandths, Round your answer to one decimal place, Round your answer to two decimal places, Round your answer to three decimal places, Use pi to one decimal place, Use pi to two decimal places, Use pi to three decimal places, the digits of pi. 22/7, 3.141592

When should students use a calculator in mathematics? When fluency with mathematical procedures without the help of a calculator are well established, students should be able to use calculators with more complex mathematical problems, real-life applications and calculations involving very large and small numbers.

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This product is available in a discounted 5 game bundle. Click here to see. Contains bingo cards and 72 question cards that cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with negative and positive numbers. This game is an easily printed and prepared thanks to easy-cut guides. It comes with well-explained rules of play, and makes a great time filler for an entire class or a high quality game for one on one tuition. Download the PDF preview now to see the game up close. We love getting feedback. Don't forget to rate us and leave feedback, and you will receive TeachShare credits to put toward future purchases. ---- If you have any comments or suggestions, and to stay updated please follow us or take a look at our Facebook Page Please click here to visit our website for more information about LittleStreams

-Cut out cards and place them around the room or hallway.

-Give each student a recording sheet and assign them a starting problem.

-Each answer leads to the next card, and students will end up in the same place they started upon completion of the loop.

-An active way to get some extra multiplication practice in!

-Self-correcting!

-Includes 12 problem cards, one student worksheet, and an answer key

"The Answers Are..." is a great Non-Curricular Thinking Task your secondary math students can all access, no matter their skill level. Each task card gives a number bank with 10 integers and 5 target answers your students must create. Using each number in the bank only one time each, students work in random teams of three to create all 5 expressions by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. It's more challenging than you might think!

If you are implementing Building Thinking Classrooms this year, "The Answers Are..." is a great thinking task to do with your students at your Vertical Whiteboard stations during the first week of school. Once they solve one of the puzzles, they will keep coming back for more.

This lesson includes the following:

• 10 Different Task Cards using Integers
• Solutions for each Task Card
• Complete lesson instructions and pacing
• A Free Canva Template to create your own Task Cards

This activity works great as...

• a beginning of school thinking task for grades 8 and up
• a challenging activity for your 7th grade students
• an extension activity for your 6th grade students
• a way to get your students out of their seats, standing at their whiteboards, and thinking deeply about math.

Check out the preview to see the full lesson directions!

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Save lots of money while shopping using coupons. This colorful, cheerful binder organizes your coupons and makes it easier for you to find just the right coupon you are looking for while out shopping.Teach your students or children in your household the value of saving money by saving coupons. Create your own coupon binder by using baseball card holders that you can find at many dollar stores or office supply stores. You can either use a two inch or three inch binder to set it up and place all your dividers in. There are two coupon sorting sheets available. Rather than flipping through the pages in your binder to insert coupons which can take a lot of time, you can use the coupon sorting mats. Once your coupons are all sorted then you can place them in your binder. Children of all ages can help with sorting the coupons. Many kids can also help out with gathering coupons and cutting them out. Have your students write about ways they can help their family save money. there are a couple of writing prompts that you could use to have your students share ways that they can help their families save money. This does not necessarily mean just using coupons. It could mean saving money by turning off the lights when not in use, not taking long showers, or turning in cans for redemption. Some kids might write about a job they do such as a paper route, mowing the grass or shoveling snow. Some students might choose to discuss buying items on sale at the store and not demanding expensive name brand items."Older students can work on the total amount of savings from using coupons. They can also work on figuring out percentages to show how much money is saved during each shopping trip and totals for each month. If you are interested in this product please download to see a few more pictures of what you will get. This binder includes the following: coupon binder cover front page coupon binder back page coupon binder spine 2inch coupon binder spine 3 inch full page dividers include the following fruits and vegetables dairy frozen foods canned goods meats boxed foods beverages snacks personal care pet care office supplies household restaurants department stores miscellaneous two pages of sorting mats for coupons Monthly Savings Chart two pages of a Writing prompt on ways kids can help their family save money. Prompt is done on two different style writing paper to accomodate younger students and older elementary students. real life picture of the inside of my binder with directions on how to set it up. credit page This product also comes in chevron pink and gray binder covers. If you would like another chevron color scheme, please let me know and I would be happy to design one for you. Coupon Binder Chevron Pink/ Gray During these difficult economic times, it is important to save money. I hope you can save money for your own family as well as teach your children and / or students about the importance of couponing and saving money. This is a valuable lifelong lesson. You can apply this to any age level. Best Wishes! Happy Saving!!! Thanks for looking!!! Please rate this product. Did you know that you can earn points credits towards future purchases on TeachShare just by rating products? .

Now with digital worksheet to support distance learning!

This product features an engaging back to school Math Talk activity that will have your new students thinking, writing, speaking, and moving on the very first day of school. In this activity, they must choose between 6 different quotes about math from famous figures like Albert Einstein and James Newman and articulate why the quote aligns with their own perspective. Use this lesson every year to set the tone for what you expect in class; it is a great way to gain insight about your students' current attitudes toward math while getting to know one another with a higher level thinking activity. We have also recently added a digital version of the "Math Talk" worksheet to support distance learning and cut down on paper.

Product includes:

• Comprehensive Lesson Plan
• "Math Talk" Sheet for students to fill out
• 6 Corresponding "Math Quote" signs to hang up around your room
• Digital worksheet to support distance learning for use with Google Drive - newly added!
• Detailed instructions for accessing digital resource

Though this lesson plan is ideal for the first day of school, it can be used all year long without modification.

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⭐Back to School / Open House Brochure

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Are you searching for an engaging and effective way to reinforce percentage concepts with your 6th-grade students?

Look no further! This self-checking, no-prep pixel art activity is tailor-made for practicing percent of a number problems.

Key Features:

1. Problem Solving: Students will tackle 20 problems, honing their skills in determining the part given the percent and the whole, as well as finding the percent given the part and the whole.
2. Motivation and Engagement: As they solve each question, students will reveal a delightful image, keeping them fully engaged throughout the activity.
3. Printable Version Included: You’ll receive both the digital version and a printable set of questions and solutions.

Perfect for Various Scenarios:

• Early Finishers: Keep those eager learners challenged and entertained.
• End of the Year Activities: A great way to review essential concepts before the school year wraps up.
• Back-to-School Activities: Start the new term with an exciting math adventure.
• Distance Learning: Ideal for virtual classrooms.
• Math Centers: Set up engaging centers with this activity.
• Homework: Reinforce learning beyond the classroom.

Why Choose This Product?

• Aligned with 6th Grade Common Core Standards: You can trust that your students are practicing relevant skills.
• Instant Feedback and Self-Checking: Students receive immediate feedback, promoting independent learning.
• Easy to Assign: Simply share the link, and students can dive right in.
• Interactive and Fun: Learning percentages has never been this enjoyable!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to review math concepts in a meaningful way. Grab this digital activity today and watch your students’ math skills soar!

And the best part? Since it’s an online activity with interactive pages, there’s no prep—no locks to configure or clues to hide. Everything you need is conveniently accessible online, without requiring Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins.

Get started now and make learning percentages a rewarding experience!

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Multiplying Polynomials by Monomials Game, Strive for Five

This is an activity where students can play while practicing multiplying polynomials by monomials. The player to reach five in a row either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally wins. Two players can play.

Included:

* Game board

* ANSWER sheet

* Show work sheet

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Boost your students' division fact fluency with these engaging and interactive flashcards!

Self-Checking Design: Each card comes with a hidden answer, revealed only when viewed through a red magnifying glass. Students can easily check their work using any transparent red material, such as a commercially available red reader or a DIY red cellophane sheet.

Easy to Use: Print, laminate, and go!

Printing Tips: To ensure the best results, test your printer with a single page to confirm ink or toner levels before printing the full set. The included PDF offers two versions with different ink intensities—choose the one that works best with your printer.

These flashcards make mastering division fun and efficient!

This product is included in the MATH FACT BUNDLE!

Check out my other self-checking math flashcards!

Multiplication Flashcards: A Self Checking Motivational Learning Game

Addition Flashcards: A Self Checking, Hidden Answer Game for Fact Mastery

Subtraction Flashcards: A Self Checking, Hidden Answer Game for Fact Mastery

Check out my other self-checking math activities!

Counting Change Game: A Self Checking Introductory Game: FREE!!!!

Self-Checking Counting Change Game: Interactive Practice Totaling Change

Properties of Operations Card Sort with a variety of visual representations illustrating the Distributive, Commutative and Associative Properties. Contains 29 expressions, 29 visual representations, and 29 verbal descriptions. Some of the expressions are equivalent to another expression in the sort illustrating one of the properties and some are not equivalent illustrating common mistakes and misconceptions.

Includes some cards with only numbers and some with variables.

*Due to the different types of representations, not all cards are the same size.

Check out my other card sorts focused on connecting visual representations and algebraic/numeric expressions.

Multiplying with Fractions Card Sort and Investigation

Area Formulas Card Matching Activity

Data Displays Card Match - Dot Plots, Histograms, Stem and Leaf Plots, and Box Plots.

Engage your students with this fun and interactive mystery-solving activity while reinforcing key algebra skills! In this activity, students work through 18 evaluating expressions problems to uncover clues and solve a mystery.

How It Works:

• Students solve each problem, then find their answer on the Who, Where, When sheet.
• As they match each correct answer, they’ll cross off boxes.
• The final three boxes that remain uncrossed will reveal who committed the mystery, where it happened, and when it occurred!

This hands-on approach helps students practice evaluating expressions in an engaging, puzzle-like format. It’s perfect for review, homework, or an in-class activity.

What’s Included:

• 18 evaluating expressions problems:
• Who, Where, When mystery sheet to guide students through solving the puzzle.
• Modified guided version for differentiated instruction, helping all students succeed.
• Answer Key

Students will love the challenge of solving both the math and the mystery!

It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students, and this is right up there with the most essential!

This fun exploration will facilitate students (and teachers) to self-discover SIX interesting facts about prime numbers. This list includes:

• Which numbers are prime
• How to produce prime numbers
• What twin primes are
• Where to find primes in the factors of other numbers
• When are the factors of numbers prime and when not
• What the current largest prime number is.

Here are some more in the Series of Prime numbers that you do not want to miss!

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This is a card game that is intended to reinforce negative integer skills. The competitive nature of this game allows students to become confident in the addition and subtraction of negative numbers while also being fun and competitive.

A common feedback comment regarding this game is that it was more fun to play than was expected at the start!

This pack includes 54 cards with negative integer questions. Included in the pack is an answer key for all cards and gameplay rules. The cards are also printed with easy-cut guides to make preparation fast and simple.

This product is available as part of a Card Game Bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click to see.

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-Cut out cards and place them around the room or hallway.

-Give each student a recording sheet and assign them a starting problem.

-Each answer leads to the next card, and students will end up in the same place they started upon completion of the loop.

-An active way to get some extra multiplication practice in!

-Self-correcting!

-Includes 12 problem cards, one student worksheet, and an answer key

"The Answers Are..." is a great Non-Curricular Thinking Task your secondary math students can all access, no matter their skill level. Each task card gives a number bank with 10 integers and 5 target answers your students must create. Using each number in the bank only one time each, students work in random teams of three to create all 5 expressions by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. It's more challenging than you might think!

If you are implementing Building Thinking Classrooms this year, "The Answers Are..." is a great thinking task to do with your students at your Vertical Whiteboard stations during the first week of school. Once they solve one of the puzzles, they will keep coming back for more.

This lesson includes the following:

• 10 Different Task Cards using Integers
• Solutions for each Task Card
• Complete lesson instructions and pacing
• A Free Canva Template to create your own Task Cards

This activity works great as...

• a beginning of school thinking task for grades 8 and up
• a challenging activity for your 7th grade students
• an extension activity for your 6th grade students
• a way to get your students out of their seats, standing at their whiteboards, and thinking deeply about math.

Check out the preview to see the full lesson directions!

Thank you for your interest in my lessons. I hope your students enjoy them as much as mine do.

If you would like to know more about how I use Building Thinking Classrooms in my own class, check out my blog. I am also creating and refining more curricular thin slicing lessons and non-curricular thinking tasks, so follow my store or check back regularly to see what's new.

Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or Threads.

Are you searching for a fun and exciting way to help your students grasp GCF (Greatest Common Factor) and LCM (Least Common Multiple)?

With this no-prep, self-checking digital activity, your students will embark on a thrilling adventure into the world of Halloween mysteries.

They'll tackle 10 GCF and 10 LCM problems, all while uncovering the hidden secrets of a Halloween-themed mystery picture.

Learning math has never been this spooktacular!

This activity is designed to work on laptops, tablets, or smartphones which makes it accessible to any of your learners and students!

Since this activity is online (interactive pages) there is very little prep; just duplicate the student answer sheet, provide the link, and off they go! There are no locks to configure or clues to hide—everything you need is online. NO Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams logins are necessary.

Due to the Terms of Use of the font/clip artists and stock photo websites that I have purchased from, this product is not editable. Thank you for understanding.

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Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

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Independent work by students – no prep needed by teacher. Just print a copy of the tutorial and task for each student and watch them learn how to use their calculators well. This step by step Fractions and Decimals Tutorial, with images of the calculator and the relevant keys, guides students to independently become 100% comfortable with their calculator. The aim of the tutorial is DIY for students. Print the tutorial, hand it to students and watch them be able to ...

1. Enter regular fractions, mixed fractions and improper fractions

2. Easily switch between regular fractions, mixed fractions and improper fractions

3. Multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting regular fractions, mixed fractions and improper fractions

4. Comfortably switch between regular fractions, mixed fractions, improper fractions and decimals.

Also, take a look at the task Cards and Key of this same calculator, on the same topic, and get the two together. You will find it here:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Back-to-school-practiceTI-30XS-Multiview-Calc-Fractions-and-Decimals-taskKey-6991431

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This calculator tutorial series addresses the challenge of a classroom full of students who have a variety of different calculators. The series contains eight of the most popular calculators used in US Middle Schools.

TI-30Xa, TI-30XIIS, TI-30XS Multiview, TI 34 Multiview, TI-36X Pro, Casio fx-300ES Plus, Casio fx-300MS Plus, Casio fx-300MS

Fractions, Decimals, Simplifying fractions, Adding fractions, Subtracting fractions, Dividing fractions, Multiplying fractions, Converting improper fractions to mixed fractions, Converting mixed fractions to improper fractions, Converting a fraction to a decimal, Converting a decimal to a fraction

When should students use a calculator in mathematics? When fluency with mathematical procedures without the help of a calculator are well established, students should be able to use calculators with more complex mathematical problems, real-life applications and calculations involving very large and small numbers.

This game is available in a 5 for 3 bundle. It is a card game that helps to reinforce a knowledge of The Order of Operations. Some calculations on the cards are particularly difficult, which is why we included a full answer sheet just in case there are any queries. The card game is also easily prepared thanks to easy-cut guides, and can be combined with our Addition Battle, Subtraction Battle and Negative Integers Battle card games for a more varied gaming experience. This card game is also available in a bundle of 5 games for the price of 3. For savings, click here to see. You may also like: Order of Operations Rummy Card Game If you have any comments or suggestions, and to stay updated please follow us or take a look at our Facebook Page Please click here to visit our website for more information about LittleStreams

Engage your students with these fun, no prep, ready to print Winter Order of Operations math riddles worksheets! Students will evaluate 19 expressions (with no negative numbers) using order of operations.

There are three versions with different riddles:

• 6 expressions with no parentheses and no exponents
• 7 expressions with parentheses and no exponents
• 6 expressions with parentheses and exponents

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Please feel free to contact me anytime!

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