Close Your Math

Looking for vocabulary cards to expand your mathematicians' academic language? A set of 19 vocabulary cards focuses on terms dealing with probability, fractions, and decimals. Each sheet has a word card and a definition card.

Teach your class a thing or two about making educated mathematical guesses. Learners read a passage that explains estimation and approximate and exact answers. They then respond to five questions about and related to the text.

Find out just how smart your young mathematicians are with this cross-curricular math and language arts lesson. After first reading Shel Silverstein's poem "Smart", students draw pictures of coins to model the different exchanges...

Challenge your learners to give clear and concise directions in this shape-name practice activity. In partners, they place a dividing "wall" between them, with pattern blocks and a grid on each side. Partner A places one block at a time...

Work on rounding, estimating, adding, and subtracting with a helpful math worksheet! Fifth graders study different sets of addition and subtraction problems, and after rounding each number to the leading digit, they estimate what the sum...

Mathology I believe, is the study of mathematics. Support your bilingual students with this math study that contains questions and answers in both Spanish and English. Topics covered are those typical to 4th or 5th grade curriculum....

Shape shifters recognize characteristics of polygons. Embracing language arts skills in addition to math, they use a thesaurus to pinpoint specific attributes of a set of polygons. They also participate in a 21-question guessing game...

Now that your elementary class has mastered multiplication and decimals, it's time to combine the concepts. An engaging lesson invites small groups to use playing cards to create and multiply decimal numbers of varying length.

Learners use math skills and teamwork to solve math problems. Each student gets a card with a number on it. On command, teacher calls out a sum of a math problem. They find others to figure with their number in that math problem.