Math / STEM

60 amazing apps for STEAM - This is a list of educational apps for students in grades K-12. It covers the subject areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, art, and Mathematics.

I love looking at other teachers' charts; I get so many ideas for my own classroom! When I visit other teachers' classrooms, I'm always trying to jot down great ideas for charts. Here are a...

Make a fun posting box resource for early counting and sorting skills with the added benefit of fine motor practise and problem solving too! The enduring appeal of dropping and posting through holes will make this a real favourite game with toddlers to school age kids, with possibilities to extend the learning for the older...Read More »

My mind has been on Spring lately. The weather here has been such a tease. The sun coming out and the temperature warming up one day, and the rain, clouds, and wind coming back with full force. It is funny watching my students try not to be distracted by the weather outside. Sun or rain. Thursday before last it was particularly difficult to keep them on task because we had a full on lockdown of the school. They wanted to know what was going on and if there was any scary person in the halls…

Lines, Rays, Angles, Oh my! --Just use toothpicks and dot stickers.

Nine weeks into the school year, I am still in love with foldables. I feel like they have made such a difference in the attitudes of my students toward

Baking soda ghost goes BOO(m).

We've been having so much fun AND learning a ton in math lately by using repeated addition to find the total number of objects in an addition array. It's taken us a while to get to this point, but the hard work has paid off. Read on for several FREE activities: We first learned how to partition rectangles. Click on the picture below to get this introduction activity for free! We practiced partitioning rectangles (and circles) with two centers that are included in this product. Click on the…

Create fun math art with kids by graphing a pi skyline or cityscape using the numbers in pi. A creative Pi Day activity to celebrate Pi Day in a creative way.

After reviewing our basic multiplication and division facts, we are extending the journey with patterns of multiplication. The next goal we have is to familiarize students with factors and multiples so they can understand the patterns of multiplication. Some great anchor chart examples: If you want to try factor trees: Then I found several activities that used hundreds charts. I'm using laminated hundreds charts for these activities. You can find free copies any number of places. Click here…

Wow! What a week! I an linking up (albeit a little late) with Doodle Bugs Teaching's Five For Friday! 1. We have had some really weird weather this winter here in Phoenix - Record lows, record highs, and record rainfall (all within 10 days of each other, and then THIS... SNOW! IN PHOENIX! These two were taken at my husband's office... 2. Family Math and Science Night Did you see this post over at Classroom DIY? Jenaya, The Lesson Plan Diva posted the directions for this awesome mental math…

Teachers, if you are teaching about solids in geometry, use these free worksheets in your classroom for your students to match 3D shapes ( ...

Thanks to high school, we've all got a pretty good idea about what's on the periodic table.

I started using math notebooks in 2010. I wanted one place for my students to keep all of their notes and work so that they could use it as a reference whenever they needed it. It evolved over time into what I am sharing with you today. I let the students make a cover page to personalize their notebook. They then use the next four pages for the table of contents where they write the date, topic and what page that topic can be found on. After those four pages, the students start numbering…

Great anchor chart!