Water Bead Activities: 10 New Ways to Play

Water Bead Activities: 10 New Ways to Play

Unlock the marvelous potential of your water beads with these surprising and engaging learning activities!

Dan Meyer’s Three Act Math Tasks

Dan Meyer’s Three Act Math Tasks challenge students to make predictions, adapt to new information, and justify their conclusions. Get his full list of published tasks here!

Math Monday: Diagramming Ratios & Proportions

Question:  Joe has a bag of red, blue, and yellow marbles.  For every three red marbles, he has five blue marbles and two yellow marbles.  If he has 18 red marbles, how many blue marbles does he have?  How many

Building Number Sense: Estimation 180

Building Number Sense: Estimation 180

Estimation 180 helps students build number sense and practice using different units of measurement.  Designed by math teacher Andrew Stadel, the website presents students with a different photo each day and asks them to estimate some quantity shown.  Each day

Math Storybooks: Sir Cumference

Math Storybooks: Sir Cumference

I am always on the lookout for resources that make math more fun and exciting for kids. Several years ago, a colleague of mine loaned me a copy of Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland to read to

Dice Challenge

Dice Challenge

Looking for a new game for your middle kids?  Make a dice tower.  They are allowed to walk around it but not to touch it.  The goal: Find the sum of all the faces that cannot be seen. This begins