How well can you or your students complete a simple mental math question under pressure? This video shows a young woman losing out on the first round of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire because she couldn't calculate a simple division or multiplication questions. Maybe this is all
something we should practice more.
This is a great video to help introduce and explore the way that our measurement systems developed and how they can be used and converted.
This is a song that can help your students remember how to calculate the perimeter and area of rectangles.
Math moon shoot game on patterns is a game for one player when self-testing skills or many players of in a classroom. Each player enters his/her name on their rocket and before launch. Answer questions as the rockets rise. If you answer a question incorrectly, you lose a chance and your rocket is hit by a meteorite. The winner is the student who answers the most questions.
Four word problems in which students have to model and solve repeated addition, multiplication, and arrays.
Multiplication array word problems worksheet Link
http://www.snappymaths.com/multiplication/earlymult/resources/arrayswp3.pdf
In this math video students will learn how the metric system came about and why scientists like using it. This Bill Nye video introduces the measurements of length to students.
Generate equivalent expressions using two additive properties. This video focuses on using the associative and commutative properties of addition to combine like terms, simplify expressions, and create equivalent expressions. Change the sign to multiplication and you can use this for the properties of multiplication as well.
Watch the properties of addition and multiplication in action.
Explore different representations for fractions including improper fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percentages. Additionally, there are length, area, region, and set models. Adjust numerators and denominators to see how they alter the representations and models. Use the table to keep track of interesting fractions. If your students have computers, yell out fractions and have them create the fraction you called.
Multiplication.com has some really good self-correcting quizzes for math facts. It allows students to take quizzes with visual hints or without them. Students can practice math fact fluency for specific math facts that they might be struggling with. When a student is finished it can even print out an image of how well they did.
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This is a quick, fun video to help introduce or review basic punctuation for kids. The song is sung by LL Cool J.