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Cookie Fun Way to Teach Money, Arithmetic, and Geometry

Cookie Fun Way to Teach Money, Arithmetic, and Geometry

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Cookies in math class? Absolutely! This fun and engaging hands-on activity will get your students excited about doing math. Students will be designing their perfect cookie within the limits of a budget. They will be filling out order forms for cookies, candy and frosting then designing and drawing their final product. This fun activity seamlessly ties in important concepts in math, specifically, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with money, and attributes of geometric shapes. This lesson is divided into grades…

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Nifty Numbers Family Math Night

Nifty Numbers Family Math Night

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Looking for a super fun way to involve your families on an academic level? A Nifty Numbers Family Math Night event is a great community-building event that centers around engaging hands-on activities in math. Aligned to the Common Core Standards in Mathematics, it’s the fun way of getting math homework done! Click on the picture below to get a print-ready copy.

Math Medley Family Math Night

Math Medley Family Math Night

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Looking for a super fun way to involve your families on an academic level? A Math Medley Family Math Night event is a great community-building event that centers around engaging hands-on activities in math. Aligned to the Common Core Standards in Mathematics, it’s the fun way of getting math homework done! Click on the picture below to get a print-ready copy.

Common Core Mathematics Standards Focus – Commutative Property of Addition

Common Core Mathematics Standards Focus – Commutative Property of Addition

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Making sense of and understanding mathematics is the foundation of the new Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.  It is not enough that kids can compute with numbers – they must understand why those computations work.  Enter Number Theory, the part of math that explores numbers and how they relate to each other.  At the heart of Number Theory are the properties of number.  One of the first ones students will encounter is the Commutative Property of Addition.  It states…

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How to Use Rectangular Arrays to Teach Multiplication, Factors, Primes, Composites, Squares

How to Use Rectangular Arrays to Teach Multiplication, Factors, Primes, Composites, Squares

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This is my teacherspayteachers.com first FREEBIE! I chose this particular activity to make as my freebie because the video version has gotten over 4,000 views on YouTube! I figure that means teachers are looking for creative ways to teach multiplication and number theory (properties of number). To get the 5-page pdf, click here. Here’s the video version: .