Math + Art Project Bundle Plus Bonus "100th Day of School Math Puzzle" Activity!

Access six geometry-related art projects at a reduced price! This bundle, valued at $19.75 if purchased separately, is yours for $12.00. You will receive the Dot-to-Dot Polygon Creature Classifying Triangles Project, the Funny Folding Geometric Shapes Project, the Terrific Trapezoids Project, the Intersecting Triangles Project, the Intersecting Pyramids Project, and the Area and Perimeter of Golden Rectangles: Literally and Mathematically. These projects can be used throughout the year to reinforce important geometry concepts, or just as a fun class or small group activity! Also included is a bonus class activity to complete on the 100th day of school for upper elementary aged students! It involves 9 clues in the form of a poem students must solve using their math skills.

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Area and Perimeter of Golden Rectangles:  Literally and Mathematically!
Your students will love carving a design on a cardboard rectangle coated with glue and glitter while exploring how the Golden Ratio is used in our most prized works of art.  They will work in groups to “discover” rectangles that reflect the Golden Ratio, they will find the area and perimeter of these rectangles, and can combine their golden rectangles to make a stunning collage that will make an impressive bulletin board display for your classroom!   Students can measure their bodies to see who is the “Golden Girl” and “Golden Boy” of your class as well!
$4.00
"Dot to Dot Polygon Creature " Classifying Triangles Math and Art ProjectYour students will love making these dot to dot creatures and you will love how much they learn about geometry as they create! This document contains step by step directions you can demonstrate for your students, directions to copy and distribute to your students, and an example of a completed project which can be used as a culminating project to help students apply their knowledge of polygons, measuring line segments to the nearest tenth of a centimeter, calculating the perimeter of a polygon, and classifying triangles.
$3.50
"Dot to Dot Polygon Creature " Finding Perimeter Math and Art Project Your students will love making these dot to dot creatures and you will love how much they learn about geometry as they create! This document contains step by step directions you can demonstrate for your students and an example of a completed project.
This is fun for third through sixth graders to use as an introduction or review of polygons and perimeter, or just as a time filler that inspires kids to think creatively. Students create a polygon creature, calculate the perimeter, and write three paragraphs describing their creature using the math content they learned. Finished projects can be displayed on a bulletin board or in the hallway.
$2.50
Sunrise Sunset, Length of Day, Elapsed Time Graphing Project
This project allows students to recognize a pattern for one of Earth’s cycles while learning how to calculate elapsed time and communicate the results by graphing the data. Included are strategies for calculating elapsed time, a graph, and a  worksheet for kids to calculate the elapsed time. Placing the graph and worksheet back to back inside a plastic sheet protector allows students to use this resource all year.  Each Friday, we did our calculations on the page with the clocks using a dry erase marker and pulled out the graph to color it in. 
$3.50
Place Value Games: 
“I Have...Who Has?”
Kids love playing "I Have... Who Has?" games! These games will help your students first grasp the concept that each place in the place value chart is ten times the value of the place to its right.  Each question involves money to help students make the connection between money values and the place value chart.  The four games are designed to help students make a logical progression to the point that they can multiply any combination of multiples of ten, one hundred, and one thousand.
$3.00
Place Value Puzzle Folders
Have your kids each make a place value folder, each with a different number, to use over and over again to practice place value and rounding! The manner in which the numbers are displayed through layering shows kids that if they fold back the flaps in the number they can determine the value of the number in each place (see thumbnail image).  This helps kids understand the value of each digit which in turn enhances their understanding of rounding.  I included several types of place value charts you can choose from based on the age level of your students.  Also included is a Practice Book you can copy for each student.  Each page allows kids to practice a specific skill using multiple numbers generated by the place value puzzles.  For rounding practice, I included pages for vertical number lines or horizontal number lines.  I also included an evaluation sheet to be used whole group, in small groups, or when working one-on-one with kids that covers all the skills. This evaluation sheet can be tailored to individual student needs.  Also included are sheets you can copy and place inside sheet protectors for practice with dry erase markers.
$4.50
Math + Art Project Bundle Plus Bonus "100th Day of School Math Puzzle" Activity!
Access six geometry-related art projects at a reduced price! This bundle, valued at $19.75 if purchased separately, is yours for $12.00. You will receive the Dot-to-Dot Polygon Creature Classifying Triangles Project, the Funny Folding Geometric Shapes Project, the Terrific Trapezoids Project, the Intersecting Triangles Project, the Intersecting Pyramids Project, and the Area and Perimeter of Golden Rectangles: Literally and Mathematically. These projects can be used throughout the year to reinforce important geometry concepts, or just as a fun class or small group activity! Also included is a bonus class activity to complete on the 100th day of school for upper elementary aged students! It involves 9 clues in the form of a poem students must solve using their math skills.
$12.00
100th Day of School Math Puzzle for Upper Elementary Students!
I don't know about you, but every year  I am envious of the kindergarten through second grade teachers when the 100th day of school rolls around.  The kids get to do so many cool projects and the teachers have so much fun celebrating that I thought I would make a fun activity for upper grade students so we, too, can celebrate and have fun on the 100th day of school!  I have written 9 math-related clues, each in the form of a poem that students must solve to find either one number or a series of numbers.  The answers are simply colored in on a 100 number grid, bit by bit, until "100" is revealed.   This document contains a Vocabulary Sheet for students to refer to, a set of Clue Cards, an answer for the clues for you, a Number Grid, and a sheet that has different options for grouping the kids to complete this activity which also includes a list of copies to make for each option.   
$2.50
Intersecting Pyramids Math + Art Project
Your students will love connecting line segments to draw three dimensional pyramids and you will love how much they learn about geometry as they create! This document contains step by step directions you can use to demonstrate for your students and an example of a completed project.
$2.25
Multiplication Facts Tests in Four Levels
I have taken all the multiplication facts, from 0's to 11's, and placed them in four different levels to help your students achieve fact fluency. Within each level is a different level of mastery based on time for completion to accommodate all learners. This allows students who struggle to be recognized for achieving mastery while also providing the challenge of working toward speed to achieve an even higher level. Included in this document are the following: pre-test, post test, four leveled tests in quarter sheets, several data tracking sheets, and detailed directions to help you implement with ease!
$3.50
Intersecting Triangles Math + Art Project
Your students will love completing this project and you will love how much they learn about geometry as they create! Students will follow very specific directions to draw triangles that intersect to form other polygons, then color to create a work of art! This document contains detailed step by step directions you can either show or demonstrate for your students, and an example of a completed project.
$2.50
Funny Folding Geometric Shapes Math + Art Project Your students will laugh as they fold paper in a very silly way to actually create a series of polygons which they can then color using texture, and you will love how much they learn about geometry as they create! This document contains step by step directions you can demonstrate for your students, copies of worksheets you could use to have the students inventory the polygons, and an example of a completed project.
$2.50
Terrific Trapezoids!Your students will love making these symmetric designs using trapezoids, and you will love how much they learn about geometry as they create! This document contains step by step directions you can use along with photos that show each step in the process. Also included are two completed projects to serve as examples.
$2.50
How Many Bones?Use this fun activity to get your students moving around the classroom to find out how many bones there are in the human body! It is a great way to launch a unit on the skeletal system or you can even use it as a math practice activity in which the students use strategies to add a long column of numbers accurately. Enjoy the giggles as your students learn about the human body!
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Addition Facts Strategies Reference Sheet--Use with Array Abacus! This is a reference sheet to help students learn three different strategies for computing sums between 11 and 18 to help them bridge the gap between counting on their fingers and having those facts committed to memory.

The first strategy uses a tool I designed called an Array Abacus. I have the directions to make this inexpensive tool in my store. According to brain research, students need to see a quantity, use their verbal skills by stating that quantity in the form of an equation, and then write that equation down on paper. I call this process "See It, Say It, Symbol It."

The other two strategies involve adjusting the addends to make one addend a ten and jumping on the number line. The reference sheet has visuals and directions which can also be sent home for use by parents to help their children with basic addition facts. I teach fourth grade and still have several students at the beginning of the year who are counting on their fingers, but by following this process, every single one of them has abandoned their fingers and have committed these facts to memory!
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"Array Abacus" Math Manipulative--Directions for Making This Versatile Tool! Are you looking for an inexpensive, versatile math manipulative your students can use to practice a wide variety of math concepts? Are you tired of getting out the counters and then finding them all over the floor at the end of the day, even though you were careful to make sure the kids put them all away? Well, those days are over, for you can easily and inexpensively make a class set of what I call an Array Abacus that your students can use all year to help them with anything from basic counting skills, addition, subtraction, multiplication facts, fractions, decimals, percents, and even finding the median of a set of a data, all with a basic plastic container, beads, and pipe cleaners!
This document contains information about the developmental needs of kids in regard to math based on my 31 years of teaching experience and the training I received as a math interventionist. There are detailed directions for making the 10 x 10 array abacus, and pictures of the ones to make with one row of ten to help kids grasp combinations to ten and pictures of the array abacus with two rows of ten to help students learn the sums between 11-20, which many have trouble with and usually resort to perpetually counting on their fingers. I use these arrays all year long in my intervention groups to help my students understand a variety of math concepts in a visual sense. You can make a whole class set for less than a dollar a piece! I bribed my son to make mine, but you can get a parent volunteer to assemble them for you.
You will soon invent your own ways the Array Abacus can be used--have fun exploring the many uses of this amazing tool!

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"Dot-to-Dot Polygon Creature" Math and Art Project Your students will love making these dot to dot creatures! This document contains step by step directions you can demonstrate for your students and an example of a completed project. This is fun for third through sixth graders to use as an introduction or review of polygons, or just as a time filler that inspires kids to think creatively.
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Prime Factorization Folding Folding paper to make equal sections is not only useful for a variety of learning situations, but it is also very good for the brain!  Folding paper helps develop hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and mental concentration.  Paper folding challenges students at the cognitive level as they follow instructions and impulses are sent to the brain activating both left and right hemispheres.  
After years and years of having students fold paper to make equal sections for multiple learning opportunities, it dawned on me one day that there is a connection between the way the paper must be folded and the prime factorization of the number of sections needed.  Use this document as a guide to challenge your students to use the prime factorization of a number to determine how to fold paper into a desired number of sections!
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