Math Ideas

Looking for fun and engaging ways to celebrate Pi Day in your middle school math classroom? 🥧✨ Check out these 5 creative Pi Day activities that will get your students excited about math! Some of these activities are completely free, making it easy to bring the Pi Day fun to your classroom. 🎉 Perfect for hands-on learning and math exploration! Although these are geared toward middle school math, many of these activities can be used at most grade levels.

Rubric Grading for Middle School Math Intervention | CollaboratEd Consulting Blog My second year of teaching, I had a principal who strongly encouraged all teachers to switch to rubric based grading. Once I got used to the system, I absolutely loved grading this way and brought it with me to the next two large urban comprehensive public schools that I taught at in the following years. Click here to read this blog post all about using rubric grading for middle school math intervention.

As soon as I saw this twenty cubes puzzle, I knew it was the perfect puzzle to use in my classroom with linking cubes. The Twenty Cubes Puzzle asks students

This resource is my 8th Grade Math Early Finishers (Paper Version). It includes NO PREP! Just print and go! There are 42 pages. Each page has a word search, unscramble the words, and an activity on the bottom (color by code, practice problems, or etc). These early finishers can be used when students finish a test early, on sub days, as homework, as warmups, and so much more! The concepts included are: 8.NS - The Number System (1) The Real Number System (2) Rationals vs Irrationals (3)...

SAVE BIG WITH THE BUNDLE!I am beyond THRILLED to share with you a brand new 3rd Grade Math Made Fun Curriculum, which is designed to make math FUN, hands-on and engaging for 3rd grade students. If you are looking to get away from the boring box curriculum or even just supplement your current math cu...

SAVE BIG WITH THE BUNDLE!I am beyond THRILLED to share with you a brand new 3rd Grade Math Made Fun Curriculum, which is designed to make math FUN, hands-on and engaging for 3rd grade students. If you are looking to get away from the boring box curriculum or even just supplement your current math cu...

Discover effective strategies for fostering higher-order thinking in your middle school math classroom. This guide offers practical tips on how to create engaging math tasks that promote critical thinking, problem-solving, and deeper understanding of mathematical concepts. Perfect for teachers looking to challenge their students and go beyond basic skill practice. Help your students develop a stronger foundation in math with these thoughtful approaches to teaching!

Students love when teachers bring food to math class! Get your students to practice and apply their linear graphing skills with enthusiasm by giving them this fun marshmallow linear graphing activity. Includes 2 tasks which can be assigned the same day or on different days depending on the skill of the class. Task #1 Students will work in groups of four to make a table and graph to represent the calories in marshmallows by reading and interpreting a nutrition label. Then they will answer a...

Teaching scientific notation? Check out these 8 fun printable scientific notation activities that are perfect for your math or science class. I have personally used these activities with my physical science classes.

Critical thinking with integers, absolute value, & integer operations!

Use these free equivalent expressions partnering cards to pair up your middle school math students while helping them practice equivalent expressions concepts~blog post and free download.