Review the year's reading and math standards in a fun, easy to prep, escape game!Why Teachers LOVE This Resource:I used this for STAAR review. My students absolutely loved it. It helped them review for the

Are you looking for ways to keep your students engaged in math this week? Want to know my secret? 🤫 I asked a local restaurant years ago for a set of menus for a class activity. Then I laminated those menus. I now dig them out from time to time for meaningful math lessons. How did I use the menus this week? Calculating tax, tips, markups, & markdowns How could you practice math using menus? • Adding & subtracting decimals • Multiplying & dividing decimals • Rounding • Shopping on a budget • Percent problems • And much more If you need an engaging lesson for your students, you can find my lesson on TpT by Moving Towards Mastery or use the link below: shorturl.at/oW359

Learn how to build meaningful math fluency in your classroom with number sense!

I realized I needed to balance out my problem solving practice with some math fluency. Here's a look at my Math Fact Fluency routines in my first grade classroom.

Making Math Meaningful

Moving Towards Mastery provides guided interactive slides on a variety of math topics to make math meaningful. • Integers • Scientific Notation • Pythagorean Theorem • Solving Equations • Transformations • Angle Measures • and so much more

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Second grade math games like like Measurement Olympics, Bowl and Graph, Dollar Dash, and Rush Hour are sure to engage your students!

This book is intended as a resource for middle school and high school math teachers, in part, to supplement the normal daily homework and classroom material (such as the Making Math Meaningful middle school and high school workbooks). There may be times when things seem to get dull and the students begin to lose their spark. It is then that the teacher knows it is time to do something different. This book provides ideas for that “something different.” This book is divided into the following sections: Puzzles. There are puzzles for each of the middle school years and for the

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In this post, Sarah Dunn, a high school math teacher, shares her favorite technology tools and online activities. In an English or social studies class, students may use computers frequently to write papers or compose a response to a writing prompt. In science class, students may use a computer to write a lab report after conducting […]

Let's dig into some math talk! Common Core together with a large body of research has made it clear that encouraging talking and discourse during math has a

With the latest shifts in math education, beginning your first job teaching math can be a nervous time. In this blog post I share...

As a math and science teacher, STEM is part of my curriculum. Not only do STEM challenges help me target specific standards, but they also promote problem solving, cooperation, and communication amongst my students. Here are three STEM challenges I do every year in my classroom. 1.) Spaghetti Towers I always do this STEM challenge […]

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Real world connections when teaching fractions are so important. Download a free math lesson and browse dozens of other fraction tips.

When educators create a rich interactive learning environment through math learning centers, kids will get a great big kick out of learning nature's numbers.