These seven tips will help you engage more students and maximize your success during your crucial math minutes.
1. Best practices with warmups
2. Using textbooks effectively
3. Skills practice that engages more students at deeper cognitive levels
4. Self-assessment: a teacher's best friend
5. Get...

Pyramid Math is a great way to engage students in crucial skills practice while simultaneously building number sense, and fostering mathematical reasoning in a self-assessing format. The adaptable activity can work with students from 3rd grade (with positive whole numbers), upper elementary (with...

Pyramid Math allows students to practice addition and subtraction skills in a creative, engaging, and self-assessing format. It works with positive whole numbers, integers, decimals, and even algebraic expressions. In the process of practicing crucial skills, students also develop mathematical th...

Brad provides a detailed description of seven tips that administrators can implement that will maximize the math instruction at your site. He covers such topics as:
• Effective use of textbooks
• Staff development options
• Assessment
• Making the best use of data
• Maximizing our instruction on ...

Target Practice is an engaging and educational math game that helps students understand decimal place value. Students of all ability levels can compete and will beg you to play this highly adaptable game again and again as they develop skills in number sense, number magnitude, and proportional re...

Do you want your students to understand math or be able to follow procedures to get correct answers? If your answer is "both," then "Take Your Places" is the perfect activity. The critical thinking approach in this lesson will help students foster crucial conceptual understanding while gaining th...

Help your students learn fraction, decimal, and percent conversions and measurement with this engaging and beautiful math project. This is a great way to welcome your students at the beginning of the year, but can also be done at any time. The finished projects are a great way to decorate your cl...

Students develop concepts regarding probability and use their mathematical reasoning in this clever game. It is an engaging way to provide students with critical skills practice while developing number sense.
You can use whole numbers, decimals, or integers to adapt the games to the needs of your...

Treasure Hunt is a great game for helping students learn coordinate graphing. It works with younger students focused on the first (positive) quadrant or more advanced students using all four quadrants. In the process, students use mathematical reasoning and the eight mathematical practices.
If yo...

Sweep and Neighbors are two great games that are classroom tested and student approved. Your students will develop crucial skills with operations as they foster their number sense. The games can be adapted across a wide span of grade levels. Use them as warm ups or as a whole class lesson. Engage...

This game is well-named. It works with any content area and any size class. It even works with uneven teams. Students of diverse ability can participate on a level playing field. It is my students' favorite. Try it with your class, and it will be your students' favorite as well.

This video introduces the concept of math projects: extended activities in the application of math content. Students love creating these engaging and empowering projects that demonstrate their understanding of mathematical concepts. Student samples illustrate the depth and rigor that can be achie...

On This Date is the simple way to help students build number sense, foster computational skill, develop proficiency with order of operations, and promote high level thinking skills. This easy-to-implement activity can be used for daily warm ups, classroom practice, or homework to help students gr...

Students love the challenge of winning the tax game in this engaging game that teachers the concepts of prime and composite numbers while helping students learn their factors.