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2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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Fact and Opinion Task Cards | Print & Digital | Google | Easel Self-Checking
Your students will love these 32 Fact & Opinion Task Cards!Use these 32 task cards to help students learn the difference between fact and opinion. Each card features three related sentences. Students must select which one is either a fact or an opinion. The multiple-choice format makes these cards ideal for test prep. If you want your students to go a little deeper, there are also two challenge cards that can be added to any of the other cards and answered either verbally or on notebook pap
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3rd - 5th
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1st Grade Number Talks Bundle: Building Number Sense and Mental Math Task Cards
Number Talks can be built into your daily schedule as short, daily exercises aimed at building number sense. Number sense is the ability to understand numbers and quantities, to use numbers flexibly, and to perform calculations mentally. According to research, students in the United States lack number sense. Traditionally, students have relied on rote algorithms to complete math problems, without really understanding what they are doing. Students who have strong number sense can solve problems i
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1st
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Addition Strategies - Counting On
Help your students learn and practice addition strategies with these counting on task cards. They can be easily used for math centers or small groups. Simply print on color card stock, laminate, and have students write on them with dry-erase markers. You can also use this Addition Strategies - Counting On resource as a scoot activity. Each card as a number and a recorded sheet is included! As your students practice using addition strategies, they will make mental connections with them, helping t
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Math Fact Strategies
Making 10 | Making Ten Task Cards and Worksheets | Friends of 10 | Number Bonds
The Making 10 Task Cards and Worksheets will help your students learn to compose and decompose the number 10. The making 10 task cards and worksheets are designed to introduce students to making 10 with ten frames, math blocks, two-sided counters, subitizing dots, and fraction bars. Also included is a fun and colorful Friends of 10 poster that students can reference when doing the math activities.What’s included in this resource?100 task cardsWorksheets to accompany the task cardsFriends of 10 P
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K - 1st
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Math Fact Strategies
These Math Fact Strategies will help your students master their addition and subtraction math facts. Students will learn to use math fact strategies to make mental connections to commit math facts to memory. These math fact strategies task cards, scoot activities, worksheets, timed tests, and more will help each student be successful and make teaching these math fact strategies easy for you! These math fact strategies activities are great for centers, small groups, or whole class activities. Buy
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1st - 2nd
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Perspective Taking Scenarios - Social Skills for Middle School & High School
Your older students will get lots of point of view practice with these perspective taking task cards! Each card features a social scenario card with real life situations relatable and current for teens, where your student must identify 3x points of view of both characters. The expectations and complexity of language rapidly increases once students hit middle school and high school. I find students can have difficulty understanding the points of view of others, which can significantly impact on
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9th - 12th
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Number Talks 5th Grade Number Sense Mental Math Yearlong Fluency Bundle
A comprehensive, low prep, standards-based bundle of 5th grade number talks resources is here. This number sense building bundle includes tools for implementing number talks in your classroom with ease and confidence. Our Grab and Go Number Talks include high quality prompts that vary from skill to skill! THE WHY…When students reason mentally about numbers and try to solve problems without their pencils and paper, the magic starts to happen. In my classroom and many others, we call these lessons
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5th
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Also included in: Number Talks Grades K-5 Number Sense Mental Math Yearlong Fluency Bundle
End of School Year Breakout - Last Day Escape Room - Activities Digital - Summer
A fantastic, fun end of the school year or last day of school activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out h
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1st - 8th
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Early Finishers Activities and Fast Finisher Activities
These 60 Early Finishers Task Cards are a great way to answer the common classroom question, "I'm Done. Now What?" Perfect as challenges during Distance Learning. Creative thinking, sequencing, writing and cause and effect skills are taught through these engaging activities. This would be useful as an enrichment activity, or as a bonus reward for great effort by students. This would also be useful in a reliever or substitute teacher pack.Click HERE to SAVE over 12% with our Early Finishers Activ
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Early Finishers Activities Task Cards BUNDLE
Inferencing Task Cards
Inferencing can be a difficult concept to teach, learn, and master. Our students often need additional support to fully understand this skill. This product contains various components to support your students' learning. Included in this product are 32 task cards containing short stories, 32 task cards containing pictures for inferencing, 1 visual support to help teach what inferencing is, and 2 graphic organizers that can be used with each task card. Each card contains questions that target infe
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3rd - 12th
200 Engaging Writing Prompts Slides - for discussion, journals, and more!
This product contains 200 writing prompts that can be used in four unique ways! Each prompt features a different kid-friendly, open-ended question or prompt.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:200 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColor200 Journal Pages (1 prompt per page)Black-lineColorList of 200 Prompts20 Tic-Tac-Toe BoardsGeneric Response SheetDIGITAL:Google Slides - Slideshow to project to the classGoogle Slides - Student ActivityYoutube - Prompt Randomizer VideoDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital
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2nd - 8th
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Analogy Task Cards | 3 sets of analogies! | 72 Print & Digital Multiple Choice |
These 72 Analogy Task Cards are divided into 3 color-coded sets of 24 cards each. Students can solve the analogies orally in groups or use the included answer sheet to record their answers. There are also answer keys for each card set so that your students can check their work. Analogy Task Cards are also available in a short answer format. Please see below for link.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Short Answer Analogies Task Cards are available here.Other great products:•
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2nd - 4th
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Math Challenge - Critical Thinking - Addition, Subtraction, Place Value Puzzles
Keep your students excited about learning with this fun set of pirate themed critical thinking math challenge riddles, designed to practice second grade and third grade addition, subtraction, and place value skills. Here's how these math riddle cards work!Choosing from the nine possible answers on each of the cards, your students will determine the Pirate's Secret Number by using a variety of math clues plus critical reasoning to eliminate eight of the options.What does this math review set incl
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2nd - 3rd
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Place Value Task Cards Number Sense Logic Puzzles Enrichment Critical Thinking
Use these 24 Name that Number cards (print or digital) for added math enrichment! These rigorous task cards require students to use a variety of math skills including place value, rounding, addition, subtraction, multiplication, greater than/less than, and more, in order to solve the puzzles. They would make a great warm-up activity or would also be good for centers or partner work.Each card is numbered so students can easily track which cards they have completed. Students can record their answe
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4th - 6th
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Area Model Multiplication Error Analysis 1 digit 2 digit Task Cards Activities
Are students making common errors when multiplying whole numbers using the area model for multiplication? With these differentiated multiplication error analysis task cards, students identify one error on each card and re-multiply whole numbers to find the correct product. I've included explanations of the common errors I've observed and incorporated these into the multiplication task cards to help students identify and correct the types of errors they may be making with area models. Included in
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4th - 5th
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Number Patterns Worksheets | Skip Counting Multiplication | Function Tables
Do you want your students to "rock" number patterns? Look no further than the fun, rockstar themed number pattern worksheets and task cards included in this product! Practice multiplication skip counting and inputing numbers into a function machine along with completing number patterns. Practice pages and task cards address common core standard 3.OA.D.9.**************************************************************************************************************PRODUCT INCLUDES:hundreds chartc
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Number Patterns | 3.OA.9 | Print and BOOM Cards Bundle!
Multiplication Facts Practice Fluency Activities - Multiplication Fact Families
In need of a fresh approach to help your students master their multiplication facts? In these Multiplication Facts Practice and Intervention Activities, students complete a variety of "count-by" activities to help them increase their number sense and master their multiplication facts (2's-12's included). With activities like Find the Missing Multiple, Which Number Does Not Belong?, Multiples of __ Searches (where students find a chain of multiples in a wordsearch-like activity), and analyzing pa
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3rd - 5th
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Early Finisher and Enrichment Activities - The ULTIMATE Bundle
"I'm done! What's next?" Never answer this question again with the ULTIMATE set of resources to engage and challenge your early finishers and provide enrichment opportunities for your whole class. This set of digital and printable early finisher and enrichment task cards is perfect for any upper elementary classroom. With the resources in this ultimate bundle, students will build valuable literacy, math, and critical thinking skills while remaining engaged in their classroom time. Which resour
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3rd - 5th
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Critical Thinking Activities Logic Puzzles, Algebraic Thinking, Math Enrichment
Engage your students with these critical thinking activities and math logic puzzles. Included in this bundle are 3 critical thinking products for grades K-2. These ready to use logic puzzles are the perfect addition to your classroom to promote mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and creativity!These student friendly critical thinking activities will build a foundation for algebraic reasoning. With 96 puzzles in total, your students will be buzzing with excitement every time they complete o
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K - 2nd
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Spring Break Breakout - Spring Break Escape Room - Activities - Digital - Fun
A fantastic, fun pre- or post-spring break activity to work on team building, perseverance, critical thinking, and using a Growth Mindset! Ideal for students grades 2 - 8.Recommended Use:Allow children to attempt the digital breakout challenge individually, in pairs, small teams, or as a whole class. Share the clues with your students, either by sharing the Google Slides of the clues with your students (two versions to choose from: with or without lock hints) or printing out hardcopies. You may
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1st - 8th
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