Math Stations Extending Decimals

Decimals are skills to practice all year! These math stations can help! 4 different station board activities are included. Print and fill the pockets! (Instructions for making the boards are included.) No laminating and minimal prep work saves you time! Print on colored paper to spice things up! When the unit is over, simply put the next unit in and you are ready to go! 20 color task cards (also in black and white for easy printing!) with QR codes for self-checking are included. Use these for review after the unit, or in small group for Guided Math. 3 whole class games are included!

This Math Station Board groups student expectations 5.2A, 5.2B, 5.2C, 5.3A, 5.3K, 5.4F addressing foundational understandings of decimals as well as adding and subtracting of decimals through the thousandths place.
Includes:
Problem Solving:
Must Do problems- each with 5 problems based on a scenario. Student pages included.
2 sets of May Do problems- each with 4 problems using real world examples. Student pages included.
Challenge problems- 2 questions total.
Math by Myself:
Today’s Assignment sheet
I Can Statements with faces students can color to evaluate their own learning.
Challenge problems- 2 questions total.
Math in Writing:
Must Do Problem
1 Choice Board for May Do
Challenge problems- 2 questions total
Math with Someone:
Frayer models and a vocabulary list
Memory cards for vocabulary game
Race to the Pet Store- task card game
20 Task cards for objectives 5.2A, 5.2B, 5.2c, 5.3A, 5.3K, 5.4F

Also included:
Instructions for making the boards
3 whole class games to play with your class

**Answer key is not included for the stations- yet! The answer key is included for the Task Cards.

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Multiplying Decimals TEKS 5.3E 5.3D Close Math Strategy

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Close Reading Strategies for Math!
If you are looking for ways to get your students to read math closely- these activities can help!

Start with a passage, flyer or graphic. Make sure it does not contain a problem to solve. It is just information. We want students to think about the passage as a whole. Each of these strategies are great for building mathematical thinking while reinforcing reading strategies!

Say, Mean, Matter
This strategy gets students think about different phrases in text. The teacher picks out important pieces for students to focus on. Later, when students are more skilled, they can pick out the important pieces! We start by asking the question, “What does it say?” Then move to, “What does it mean? and finally, “Why does it matter?”
Students can spin the spinner to answer questions about the flyer.

Cube It
Cube It is a strategy used to differentiate thinking. Each side of the cube is a different skill. Students roll the cube and answer the question. A sheet is included if you don’t have time to make the cubes!

Read It Again And Again And Again
Read it Again and Again and Again is a strategy to help students read for a different purpose. Often times, we ask students to read math problems multiple times. They do, but they read the same thing over and over again without looking for different pieces of information.
Musical shares is the activity!

KNWS
What do you need to know, what do you NOT need to know , what do you want to find and what strategy will you use helps students to find critical pieces of information.
3 task cards are included for problem solving

Students will practice multiplying decimals in a fun problem solving way!

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Dividing Decimals Model Task Cards

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Modeling decimal division is a new skill for students. These task cards are basic modeling of a 2 digit decimal divided by a whole number. Students will be able to see a pattern to help them understand and apply what they know about the base 10 system.

This set has 20 cards with models of decimal division. The students will write the equation that matches the card.

Ways to differentiate:
Write a word problem to go with the model.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.B.6
Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.

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Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers 5.3G

Model Model Model!  When students are first learning a concepts- concrete is the way to go!

Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers

Modeling and dividing decimals by whole numbers is tricky, but these 3 Sets of Task cards can help! Use them orally in small groups, or individually as a practice station in Math Daily 3 or in Guided Math. Another option is to use one card at a time with the entire class. Students can answer on notebook paper and track the cards they have completed on the included recording sheet. An answer key is also included. In addition Roll For Luck whole class game to play with any of the 3 sets.

Set 1: Students will model division of decimals using an area model. 12 Task Cards with a student modeling sheet can help students visualize and understand division of decimals by a whole number. Answer Key is included!
Set 2: Students will continue to practice dividing 2 digit decimal dividends by 1 digit whole numbers. 24 mini-task cards and griddable answer sheets will help students practice decimal placement. These numbers are small enough fro students to mentally solve the problems.Answer Key is included!
Set 3: Students will practice up to 4 digit decimal dividends by up to 2 digit divisors with quotients to the hundredths using 20 task cards. Two types of answer sheets are available- grids and free response. Answer Key is included!
These task cards sets are perfect for test prep and will work well at Guided Math centers, BUILD, Daily 3 Math stations, for partner work, or with the whole class games. Use them with PLICKERS to assess the class!

These cards will look best in color, but will also print out fine in black and white. Simply print and cut. Laminate and use them again and again. Alternatively, you could print black and white cards on colored cardstock. Keep them in a baggie or whole punch and put on a ring
Includes:
Set 1
12 Modeling Decimal Task Cards, Student Sheet and Answer Key
Set 2
24 Mini Task cards Color and Black & White with Griddable Answer Document
Set 3
20 4 digit decimal dividend by 2 digit divisor with quotient up to hundredths Task Cards- Color and Black and White with Griddable and Open Response Student sheets with Answer Keys
Student bubble sheet
Answer key
Roll for Luck Whole Class Game
Race to Space Game board that can be played with any of the 3 sets

 

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Guided Math Station Boards

"What do I do with the other kids?" said the teacher. "Stations or independent work." replied the instructional coach.  "What do I put in the stations?" asked the teacher.  "Engaging, rigorous and differentiated materials of course!" answered the coach.  "Where do I get these materials?" asked the teacher.  "Um, well, what do you have in your room?"  the coach said as she wiped sweat off her brow.  The coach knows there isn't anything in the room or in the materials that come with the text book that meet the criteria of engaging, rigorous and differentiated.  I have had this conversation with teachers many, many times!  I felt helpless.  So did the teacher.

Teachers don't have time to write new math problems in 3 different levels for 5 different stations every week.  They don't have time to copy, cut, laminate, cut again and find storage for all of the materials.  They don't have time to hunt manipulatives and make sure they are all still there every day.  The also do not have the time and energy to proof every single item that is in the station to make sure it meets the rigor from the state.

This is how the idea of the Math Station Board grew.  We needed something that was easy to store and set up fast.  No laminating- or very little laminating! It also needed to last the week and be predictable each week so we didn't spend valuable minutes explaining the stations every week.  The students needed to be able to put the information in their notebooks or INB's so we wouldn't have tons of papers to deal with.

After designing the boards, I started writing the units.  Each unit pack has activities for all 5 stations!  Check out Unit 1 for your grade level!

The instructions to build the boards are below:

Materials:

3 Project Display Boards cut in half

Command hooks:

36 Mini clear and 10 medium white

21 Sheet protectors

Colored Paper for printing signs

Spray adhesive

Finished Product: (Steps Below)
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Step 1:

Cut the project boards in half.

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Step 2:

Using a sheet protector as a guide, position command hooks in the center of Section B.

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Step 3:

Use spray adhesive to glue the Must Do, May Do and Challenge labels to the board.

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Step 4:

Repeat this process with all 5 boards.

Each station is slightly different, so the small clear hooks are positioned in different places.  Follow the directions for each station board.

Individual Boards:

Math by Myself:

Cut 2 sheet protectors in half.  Tape one side of the halves to create a pockets.

Section A:

Put a whole sheet protector on the bottom of section A.  (This sheet is for Today’s Assignment.) Attach hooks.

Put a 1/2 sheet above the whole sheet for task cards.  Punch holes in the top of the 1/2 sheet and attach hooks.

Section B

Put the two half sheets on either side of the title and challenge labels.  Attach hooks.

Section C

Put a whole sheet protector on the bottom of section C.  Attach hooks.

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Math in Writing:

Cut 1 sheet protector in half.  Tape one side of the halves to create a pockets.

Section A:

Put a whole sheet protector on the bottom of section A.  Attach hooks.

Section B

Put the two half sheets on either side of the title and challenge labels.  Attach hooks.

Section C

Put a whole sheet protector on the bottom of section C.  Attach hooks.

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Problem Solving:

Cut 1 sheet protector in half.  Tape one side of the halves to create a pockets.

Section A:

Put a whole sheet protector on the bottom of section A.  Attach hooks.

Section B

Put the two half sheets on either side of the title and challenge labels.  Attach hooks.

Section C

Put a whole sheet protector on the bottom of section C.  Attach hooks.

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Math with Someone:

Section A:

Put a whole sheet protector on the bottom of section A.  Attach hooks.

Section B

Put the two half sheets on either side of the title and challenge labels.  Attach hooks.

Section C

Add a basket below challenge for task cards or puzzle games.

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Fact Fluency:

6 Games are on this board- 2 in each section

Cut 3 sheet protectors in half.  Tape one side of the halves to create a pockets.

Section A:

Put 2  1/2   sheet protectors on the bottom of section A.  Put a command hook above each sheet protector for a game label. The labels are 1$   sheets.  Attach hooks.

Section B

Put the two half sheets on either side of the title and challenge labels.  Attach hooks. Put a command hook above each sheet protector for a game label. The labels are 1/4   sheets.  Attach hooks.

Section C

Put 2  1/2   sheet protectors on the bottom of section A.  Put a command hook above each sheet protector for a game label. The labels are 1$   sheets.  Attach hooks.

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This year, I plan to be prepared for the question, "What do I put in the stations?"!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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