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Students create a beautiful project that illustrates four ways to solve a system of equations. They use guess-and-check, a t-table, graphing, and elimination as tools to solve the problem they design. In the process, they develop crucial conceptual understanding of systems of equations.

Students design and play a game to determine the probability of winning and its fairness. They illustrate both the theoretical and experimental probability. In the process they explore fractions, algebra, and nonlinear functions. The result is a beautiful project suitable for display on your clas...

Students from grades 6 through algebra will love this engaging project in which they figure out a magic trick involving algebra and then go on to create their own version. Using the simple hundreds chart from kindergarten, students embark on an exploration of the rich number sense and algebraic t...

Students are assigned two coordinate points and create a poster illustrating three ways to find slope: with a graph, with a t-table, and with the slope formula. This focused process promotes deeper conceptual understanding and helps students not only make stronger connections among the different ...

In this beautiful project, students illustrate how the area of the trapezoid is calculated. This helps them not only learn the area formula of average base x height, but also to understand its derivation and retain the learning.

In this beautiful project, students illustrate how the area of the circle is calculated. This helps them not only learn the area formula of πr^2, but also to understand its derivation and retain the learning.

Your students can demonstrate their understanding of the Pythagorean Theorem through two beautiful and engaging projects. The projects not only make great displays that will enhance the esthetics of your classroom, but they also incorporate measurement standards into the activity. One project is ...

Students create a beautiful poster that illustrates how they have spent their life using proportional reasoning. In the process they convert hours per day into years of their lives. Then they convert these ratios to degrees to make a circle graph, and finally they use proportions to label each se...

Students create an artistic and engaging poster illustrating exponential growth. In the process, they not only learn how this nonlinear growth looks, they come to see why a number raised to the zero power is one and why negative exponents are a way to express fractions.

In this fun and engaging lesson, students try to determine the correct volume of water to maximize success in bottle flipping. This activity can be adapted across a wide grade level span.
Full STEM integration incorporates:
• Science: physics, forces
• Technology: making and/or using spreadsheets...

In this simple yet engaging activity students are introduced to the concepts of linear functions. The chirping rate of a cricket has a correlation to the temperature. Students identify the function as linear and find the slope and y-intercept. Links to audio files of crickets are provided. This a...

In this creative and rich exploration students young and old can explore patterns that lead them on a journey of discovery. As the teacher, you can decide how far to take them on this pathway from simple number sense into the world of linear functions.

Math Maps is the unique and engaging way to help students develop deep mathematical thinking and fluency with number operations. As the teacher, you get to decide the rigor and skills of the activity as students use math to navigate a map of villages. During the process, students not only hone th...

In this engaging exporation, students create and play random games as they discover the principles of probability. Woven into the activity, they will encounter fractions, percentages, square, triangular, and pyramidal numbers along with Pascal's triangle and the Fibonacci sequence. The finish by ...

Circle graphs, or pie charts, are a common way that data is represented not only in math but in other content areas as well and in our daily lives beyond the classroom. For this reason, it is important that students understand how this graphical representation works. In "Paper Plate Pie Charts", ...

Operations with mixed numbers often confuse students who have simply memorized procedures. In this video, you will see how you can create visual models for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division that help students see they why behind the procedures.

Students struggle with fractions, decimals, and percent representations, and mixed numbers and improper fractions make these part/whole representations even more confusing. In "Ruler Fractions", students see connections between and among these various forms and are able to translate from one repr...

An understanding of functions is critical to success in upper mathematics and in our adult lives outside of school as well. In "Milk Carton Apartments", students engage in a visual and kinesthetic activity that helps them understand the concept of linear functions. Slope-intercept form emerges na...

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...

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...

This creative and engaging approach ensures that more students understand the concepts and computations involved in solving systems of equations. The incremental development of concepts helps students embed a deep understanding through multiple strategies of t-tables, graphs, elimination, and sub...

This game lives up to its name. Use it in any content area with any size class for a high-energy, engaging, experience that will help students practice skills or prep for a test.

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...

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...

This highly adaptable game will help your students master coordinate graphing. The highly engaging yet easy to implement format will work with graphing of positive x,y coordinates in the first quadrant or positive and negative values for graphing in all four quadrants.
In the process of playing t...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Domino Fractions provides an engaging format for practicing all operations with fractions. More engaging than they typical textbook or worksheet, this exploration will build skills, promote deep critical thinking, and build number sense.

Students create perfect 5-pointed and 6-pointed snowflakes by paper folding. In the process, they learn and use vocabulary such as midpoint, bisect, scalene, right triangle, lateral and rotational symmetry.

Students use tables and graphs to study the effects of missing work on their grade. Number sense, patterns, and nonlinear functions are used. This eye-opening activity will help students realize how important each assignment is. A great activity to start the school year.

Brad shows how easy it is to foster oral and written language in the math class through the use of prompts. This approach makes teaching math easier for the teacher and more powerful for the learner.

Tired of the paper chase? Want your students to take ownership of their learning? Brad shows his strategies for minimizing your work and maximizing your students' success.

Master teacher, Brad Fulton, shows the importance of incorporating oral and written language into mathematics instruction. His effective and time-saving tips will make this easier for every teacher.

In this engaging activity, students will try to predict whether a function is linear or nonlinear. Using containers of various shapes, they add water while measuring the depth. They record their data on t-tables and graphs. Deep cognitive thinking results in this hands-on lab.

Brad demonstrates a simplified and concept-based approach to solving the simpleset to the most complex linear equations.

Brad shows how he taught his students to multiply two-digit numbers quickly in their heads.

Brad shows an easy way to teach the factoring of polynomials. No guesswork is needed in this incremental approach that takes students from simple arithmetic to factoring the most challenging polynomials.

Brad shows how you can help your students design their own linear and nonlinear functions. His step-by-step instructions and student examples will engage and empower your students as they deepen their understanding of functions and turn your class into a mathematically beautiful art gallery.

Brad shares how a simple sheet of graph paper can be used as a great tool in mathematics and test-taking. You'll see how a graph paper can be used to:
1 Find equivalent fractions
2 Simplify fractions
3 Compare fractions
4. Round or approximate fractions
5. Find unit rates
6. Add and subtract f...

Brad demonstrates a simple and engaging way to help students see linear functions. Topics include slope, y-intercept, rise/run, domain & range, independent & dependent variables, and line of best fit.

Brad shows how students can gain conceptual understanding of quadratic and cubic functions in part 4 of his 5-part series.

Two engaging math games help students build skills, number sense, and mathematical thinking.

Brad Fulton shows how students can apply their understanding of linear functions to problem solving situations. He demonstrates three applications: "Banking on Algebra", "The Great Yo-yo Festival", and "The Nutty Function." Students gain a real-world understanding of concepts such as slope, y-int...

In this first of four videos on functions, Brad shows how even young and struggling learners can develop a rich foundational understanding of functions. Part one focuses on linear functions involving positive whole numbers. Part two explores negative and fractional slopes and y-intercepts. This h...

Four out of three students struggle with fractions! And the other 50% struggle with their times tables. Overcoming these two hurdles is essential to success in middle and high school algebra.
See how I helped my intervention students master all fraction operations and learn their multiplication ...

This seven-course meal provides all the nutrition necessary for students young and old to grow strong and healthy algebraic brains. This sensible approach helps all students prepare for algebra by taming concepts such as variable, substitution, algebraic properties, equation solving, and systems...

The development of number sense is crucial to success in mathematics. This presentation will show teachers how they can foster rich number sense using simple and powerful strategies.
Brad breaks down the five key components of number sense in great detail and with multiple examples. He then sho...

The ability to work fluently with negative numbers is a stumbling block that prevents many students from having success in higher mathematics. Brad will discuss the research surrounding this and demonstrate solutions for these issues.
He'll show four different strategies that you can implement to...

Students love using Lattice Multiplication, but it can also be used for addition, subtraction, and division. Students make fewer mistakes using the lattice, and it transitions nicely into binomial multiplication in an algebra class.

Proportional reasoning is a crucial topic that must be developed in upper elementary and middle grades. It is one of the most important topics that will be used by students in life and careers beyond school.
I address how this concept can be fostered incrementally through nine representations tha...

Using the area model for multiplication of multidigit numbers has many advantages:
• Students get a better conceptual model of multiplication.
• It is a logical next step after teaching lattice multiplication.
• It makes for a smoother transition into a the common procedure for multiplying multi-...

In part 2 of this series on proportional reasoning we look at applications of the skills and strategies learned in part 1. Many opportunities for practicing the solution methods are provided from simple to more advanced.
This is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students who must dev...

Research has shown why students struggle with geometry. The solution isn’t difficult; I'll show you strategies that you can implement tomorrow to help all students navigate the geometry road.
This video is perfect for the teacher, school, or district that wants to create a successful pathway from...

Students often struggle to remember all the different area formulas for squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids. Add to that the volume and surface area formulas for 3-D shapes, and it can be overwhelming.
Brad's simple conceptual approach breaks this down so that students ...

Students can develop incredible fluency with mental mathematics of fraction, decimal, and percent representations using this easy-to-implement strategy. Adaptations make the lesson a perfect fit for arithmetic through algebra.
It's one of the easiest strategies for you to implement and one of the...

If your students struggle with fraction, decimal, and percent representations, this unique and engaging approach will surely help, and they will be developing some geometry skills along the way.
By integrating a visual model into the design process of architecture, both younger and older students...

State math standards typically call for integration of and interconnections among mathematical concepts to foster greater understanding. See how easily you can interweave geometry, area, fractions, decimals, percents, proportions, algebra, and probability to maximize the mathematics instruction....

Brad shows a creative whole-class activity to help students visualize multiplication as an area model using arrays. He then demonstrates how we can use this as a springboard to explore odds and evens, primes and composites, factors and multiples, and square numbers.

Brad shows an engaging approach to teaching volume and surface area using three-dimensional drawing on isometric grid paper.

Tired of dealing with the same questions in your math class? Brad addresses five common issues we encounter when teaching math. His often humorous and always thoughtful approach helps students understand the answers to these questions and allow us as teachers to invest more time in quality teachi...

Brad Fulton demonstrates five activities that will help your students understand the foundational concepts of exponents. These include
• Exponential growth
• The zero power of a base
• Negative exponents
• Fractional and irrational exponents
Your students will not only gain computational skills, ...

Graphic organizers are a powerful tool in developing understanding and computational fluency. Brad demonstrates multiple organizers that will help students with multi-digit multiplication, solving proportions, percent conversions, combined work problems, percent mixture problems, and factoring si...

This simple and effective strategy for practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division is adaptable to many grade levels. Students can work with positive and negative integers, whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, and even algebraic expressions.
It also lends itself to building numb...

Students encounter the 100’s chart in the primary grades. Learn how to build upon their understanding of simple arithmetic to foster a deep understanding of algebraic skills. A seamless transition from arithmetic to algebra will have all students engaged in learning. This intriguing exploratio...

This comprehensive activity based on the Fibonacci sequence will teach multiple standards concurrently. You'll save so much time, and your students will make more powerful connections.
Students will gain critical skills practice in addition and subtraction of positive or negative whole numbers, f...

This fun and intriguing exploration will provide critical skills practice while seamlessly transitioning your students from simple guess-and-check arithmetic into more abstract mathematical reasoning. If you wish, you can even take them into the land of algebra without losing them along the way. ...

Build number sense while developing critical skills practice in all math content areas at any grade level! This engaging game will be a student favorite. It can be used as a warm up or a whole period lesson. Whatever you are studying currently in math can be turned into a fun and educational expe...

Your students will not only learn what prime and composite numbers are, they will learn how to apply them in this engaging game of strategy. They will also learn about factors and factor-rich numbers. It's easy for you and educational for them.
Use it as a daily warm up or let the students play a...

My students beg to play this simple yet strategic game that builds multiplication skills. It's easy for me and educational for them.
Use positive whole numbers for students who need practice with their multiplication tables, or use integers, fractions, decimals, percents, or even monomials and bi...

This clever and engaging practice format works with numbers of all types: whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, positive and negative integers, and even algebraic expressions. Your students will build number sense and develop abstract thinking skills as they get much needed skills practice in a...