Less than $5 High School Basic Operations Activities (by date, latest first)

After reading “Making Number Talks Matter” by Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker, I was inspired to build on their discussions of number sense.

**** I strongly recommend the book!

The goal of these activities is to ultimately get students thinking about numbers in more ways than one. When we ask them to find the amount without using pencil and paper, we ask them to find and create patterns. When I say “without counting” I mean that look they get—where they close one eye and squint and point to the numbers as they compute from their seats. Students will start to realize symmetry, groupings, and patterns.

These pages are intended for use with a projector but could be adjusted for small group instruction. The first page is intended for the initial display. Have students mentally solve the problem silently and independently. One students have an answer they can give a signal to show they have a number in mind—how you choose the signal is up to you but a simple thumbs up in front of their chest (so as not to distract or discourage their classmates) would suffice. The second page puts the same problem in the corner but leaves room for notes. Here is where you put student responses in any organized fashion you prefer—the important part here is to make sure you are recording ONLY the answers (keep your poker face!). Once you have student responses, ask students to defend their reasoning or find errors in words while you scribe their thinking on the board. This is a great opportunity for students to see that there is more than one way to approach a problem and come out with an accurate answer. As you progress, it is easy to transfer their thinking into more generalized “rules” in math.

There are 30 Multiplication problems and 30 Division problems.

"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.

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"The Answers Are..." is a great Non-Curricular Thinking Task your math students can all access, no matter their skill level. Each task card gives a number bank and 5 target answers your students must create. Using each number in the bank only one time each, students work in 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 FREE lesson includes the following:

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

I created this FREE lesson so any math teacher using BTC can have access to a quick lesson plan for one of the first few days of school. Get your students out of their seats, standing at their whiteboards, and thinking deeply about math.

"The Answers Are..." is a great Non-Curricular Thinking Task your math students can all access, no matter their skill level. Each task card gives a number bank and 5 target answers your students must create. Using each number in the bank only one time each, students work in 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 FREE lesson includes the following:

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

I created this FREE lesson so any math teacher using BTC can have access to a quick lesson plan for one of the first few days of school. Get your students out of their seats, standing at their whiteboards, and thinking deeply about math.

"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.

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The Sandwich Spot Lunch Menu includes drinks, sandwiches, sides, and dessert that customers may purchase as posed in the addition and subtraction questions presented in the product. Students can then choose which products they would purchase and will be required to add and subtract chosen menu items. There are 26 addition and subtraction questions provided in this packet and each question provides space for students to solve each problem. There is an answer key included in this product.

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

The task will help students review all the basics involved in multiplying binomials. The task is specifically useful in a classroom full of students of different abilities. It addresses the following algebraic basics:

• how to multiply integers
• how to add and subtract like terms
• how to multiply monomials (the laws of exponents)
• how to FOIL two binomials.

FOIL, Binomials Multiplication, Algebra, Like terms, Adding Integers

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This is a set of 4 math mazes. Combining Like Terms. Distributive Property. One Step Equations. Two Step Equations. Answer keys are included. Fun activities as an alternative to worksheets.

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This is a worksheet of 14 problems to use as an introduction or as an intervention for combining like terms.

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Do your students struggle with factoring? Students need to practice pre-factoring skills of using the Diamond Method. This is a set of notes and practice worksheets for you to print and go. My students struggle when we start factoring with a=1 or a>1 to find the numbers that would fit the requirements. This guides students in this process. Use this for pre-teaching, independent practice, or for math intervention.

Included: Two notes and three practice sheets. The first section for notes is when there is a positive number for a x c at the top of the diamond. The second section for notes is when there is a negative number for a x c at the top of the diamond. Practice sheet #1 is for a positive a x c. Practice #2 is for a negative a x c. Practice #3 is a mixture of each.

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This Adding Integers Discovery Lesson is great for having your students figure out the rule for adding a positive and negative number together through a series of strategically planned activities! A full lesson plan is included to help you implement this discovery lesson!

Students will start off completing a Do Now and then do a turn and talk about the Do Now with a partner. After that they will complete a Let's Explore section to figure out the connections between adding a positive and negative number and the answer they are getting. After that they will fill out a notices and wonders chart and then come up with a rule for how to add a positive and negative number! They will test the rule out to see if it actually works and check it on a desk number line!

28 practice questions and a 12 question scavenger hunt are included to help them reinforce these skills!

This is perfect for:

- students learning how to add a positive and negative number for the first time

- students in a math skills class that need to deepen their number sense

- the teacher that wants to have students explore more in the classroom

What you get:

- 2 page discovery lesson (with a do now included)

- a full lesson plan on how to implement this lesson

- 28 practice questions (one pager)

- A scavenger hunt (one pager)

- Desk number line from -10 to 10

- Answer key

These 5 Fall Themed No Prep Pre Algebra and Algebra Activities will keep your students engaged and excited to review how to convert decimals to percents, simplify with order of operations, evaluate algebraic expressions, solve multi-step linear equations and perform integer operations. Included are 5 print and go activities that contain over 80 questions - an error analysis maze, a mystery worksheet, a scavenger hunt, a cut and paste and a color by number.

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- Error Analysis Leaf Maze (30 questions) with workspace page

- Scavenger Hunt (12 questions)

- Fall Themed Color by Number (16 questions) with workspace page

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- Fall Themed Mystery Worksheet (12 questions) with workspace page

Topics Included:

- Evaluating Algebraic Expressions

- Order of Operations

- Integer Operations

- Fractions to Percentages

- Solving Linear Equations

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- a relaxing (but engaging) class period for your Algebra 1 students

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- engaging practice work

- fall break work

- homework

- sub plans

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In these Escape the Room Riddle Worksheets, your students will be completing pre algebra topics to determine the answer to the riddle in order to escape the math lab! Topics include exponents, linear equations, algebraic expressions, integers and combining like terms. Included are 5 different worksheets with each of the following topics. There are 15 - 17 questions per page, depending on how many unique letters are in the answer to the riddle!

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• Integer Operations Worksheet (16 questions)
• Algebraic Expressions (15 questions)
• Distribution & Like Terms (17 questions)
• Evaluating Exponents (15 questions)
• Solving Multi-Step Linear Equations (17 questions)
• Answer Keys
• Workspace Pages for each worksheet

Topics Included:

• Integer operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Evaluating algebraic expressions (with 2 missing variables)
• Distributing and combining like terms
• Evaluating Exponents
• Solving Multi-Step Linear Equations (two step, variables on both sides, distribution with variables on both sides)

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