An educator since 1979, Tammy L. Jones has worked with students from first grade through college. Currently, Tammy is consulting with individual school districts in training teachers on strategies for making content accessible to all learners. Writing integrations as well as literacy connections are foundational in everything Tammy does. A variety of resources are offered for mathematics Pre-K through 12 as well as several that are interdisciplinary. Electronic trainings are also offered.
An educator since 1979, Tammy L. Jones has worked with students from first grade through college. Currently, Tammy is consulting with individual school districts in training teachers on strategies for making content accessible to all learners. Writing integrations as well as literacy connections are foundational in everything Tammy does. A variety of resources are offered for mathematics Pre-K through 12 as well as several that are interdisciplinary. Electronic trainings are also offered.
The boards are 11x17 size. Pawns not included.
These boards can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards)
Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards)
Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards)
Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Available secondary game boards:
x=What?
Math Maneuvers
Tropical Math Maneuvers
Practice to Proficiency
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
Secondary game cards available (40 card sets):
Exponents I
Exponents II
Integers I
Integers II
Order of Operations
Rational Exponents
Literal Equations
Evaluate Expressions
Perimeter & Area
Can be used:
• With game boards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Addition & Subtraction 1-digit (120 cards) Decimal Multiplication (40 cards)
Multiplication 1-digit (60 cards) Decimal Subtraction (40 cards)
Addition & Subtraction 2-digit (110 cards) Multiplying with 10 (40 cards)
Multiplication 2-digit (72 cards) Write Number Words (50 cards)
Ten More, Ten Less (40 cards) Time (50 cards)
Decimal Addition (40 cards) Factors & Multiples (40 cards)
Decimal Division (40 cards)
Seven different game boards are available:
Decimal Farm
Factors in the Forest
Transportation Turns
Construction Calculation
Polar Ice Exploration
Airplane Arithmetic
Coastal Countdown
Game boards are 11x17 in size. Pawns not included.
Game boards Can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
This elementary Christmas activity packet has 173 pages full of fun Christmas activities for kindergarten students up to 8th grade.
Activities:
Ornaments on a Tree
Twelve Days of Christmas K-3
Twelve Days of Christmas 4-7
Shake and Shade
Glyphs: A Different Approach
This secondary Christmas activity packet has 55 pages full of fun Christmas activities for 8th-grade up to 12th-grade students.
Activities:
The Twelve Days of Christmas Activity Grades 6-12
Twelve Days of Christmas Math Secondary Activity Packet Grades 8-12
Glyphs: A Different Approach Secondary
The Mathematics of a Christmas Tree
Four game boards:
Math Maneuvers
x=What?
Tropical Math
Practice to Proficiency
Game boards are 11x17 size. Pawns not included.
These boards can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Exponents I & II (80 cards)
Integers I & II (80 cards)
Order of Operations (40 cards)
Four game boards:
Math Maneuvers
x=What?
Tropical Math
Practice to Proficiency
Game boards are 11x17 size. Pawns not included.
These boards can be used:
• With game cards as a review game to build procedural fluency
• In a flash card type activity
• In a center or learning station activity for review or practice
• For differentiation and intervention as needed by your students
All game cards available:
Rational Exponents (40 cards)
Literal Equations (40 cards)
Evaluate Expressions (40 cards)
Number charts support the investigation of and discovery of many number patterns as well as serve as an aid in developing fluencies with composition and decomposition of numbers. This 32 page packet offers aids for investigations from a 100 chart, 200 chart, up to a 1000 chart (counting by 10s) support students as they are further developing their understandings of the base ten number system. Multiple charts per page are provided that will fit nicely into the Mathematician’s Notebook.
“Difficulty with fractions (including decimals and percents) is pervasive and is a major obstacle to further progress in mathematics, including algebra.” (National Math Advisory Panel, 2008.) Fractions are the earliest topic in school mathematics where educators agree that students fail and teachers struggle to instruct.
This activity packet is good for students with dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies.
“Difficulty with fractions (including decimals and percents) is pervasive and is a major obstacle to further progress in mathematics, including algebra.” (National Math Advisory Panel, 2008.) Fractions are the earliest topic in school mathematics where educators agree that students fail and teachers struggle to instruct.
This activity packet is good for students with dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies.
Students learn mathematics more effectively and more deeply when reading and writing is directed at learning mathematics. (Bossé and Faulconer 2008) This packet includes four activities that target foundational components for developing understandings and building fluency with key mathematical topics:
Functions
Exponential Functions
Linear Functions
Quadratic Functions
Modeling
Probability
Right Triangles in Trigonometry
Statistics
Vocabulary and writing are targeted and facilitation notes are provided to support making mathematics content accessible to all learners. Templates and additional resources are provided.
This resource is good for children with Dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!
NCTM’s gift to the world is their Illuminations website. This webinar gives an overview of the website and all the treasures it has for teachers of all ages and all levels.
The number three is the next number for the 12 Days of Christmas. Students from kindergarten through high school work with the number three in one of the most representative of formats – the triangle. For younger mathematicians, studying triangles, composing and decomposing various types of triangles, and classifying triangles will be the focus for Day 3.
The activities in this packet are intended to support these challenges. Time on a Number Line helps students develop the base 60 aspect of time and time measures on the clock. It also provides a strategy for working with elapsed time. Readin’ ‘Round the Clock supports students working with the relationship between the hour hand and the minute hand. Numbers around the Face is a game that helps students first learn the numbers on the clock. These activities are also suited for students who have challenges with learning and need the extra support. I Have Who Has Elapsed Time covers elapsed time at a more sophisticated challenging level for students who are ready.
This resource is also good for children with dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd really like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!
The number one is the number that beginning mathematics use to build the set of counting numbers, the Natural numbers. Young mathematicians need practice making one more and making one less. The number one is also the multiplicative identity.
Check back every day to download all twelve days of Christmas Mathematics activities. This resource is also good for children with dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies.
Tangrams, those seven simple geometric pieces, are a manipulative that can support diverse topics with students at all levels. This dissection puzzle can offer many challenges to students. The seven tans can be manipulated into various shapes, pictures, letters, etc. Tangram shapes and puzzles support the development of various geometric topics while building spatial reasoning and problem solving. Fractions are a natural fit with tangrams as is area and linear measurement.
This 31 page packet includes:
literacy connections and ideas for creating tangrams as well as discussion prompts to use as students are creating a tangram;
Ideas for investigating shapes and discussion prompts to use as students are investigating shapes;
Ideas for using tangrams to study fractions and discussion prompts to use as students are working with fractions and tangrams;
art activity suggestions and resources; and
several extensions with resources.
Blackline masters and sets of task cards are also included. Activities and ideas for all grade levels and for various levels to support differentiation.
This resource is good for students with Dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!
Writing is one of the parts of language that students are still developing along with their reading, talking, and listening skills. For some students what they know about mathematics may exceed their ability to communicate it through the written word. Students learn to write by writing. Writing needs to be original thought, not just copying something that someone else wrote. As the teacher, providing an environment that is rich in mathematical language is a priority. Providing students a Journey’s Notebook, if for nothing else but the development of a Glossary and a Journal, offers a place where students can record their thoughts and experiences as it chronicles their growth over time while on their educational journey.
Writing About can be a small group writing activity or an individual activity. This is a good activity for struggling students and ESL/ELL who may need some support in writing. Writing about this week’s topic provides students an opportunity to reflect on their work over the past week. Parents and caregivers find this very informative and it provides a way for them to stay in touch with what is happening in the classroom. This can also be used as a formative assessment probe for the student.
This resource is good for children with Dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!
Tangrams, those seven simple geometric pieces, are manipulatives that can support diverse topics with students at all levels. This dissection puzzle can offer many challenges to students. The seven tans can be manipulated into various shapes, pictures, letters, etc. Tangram shapes and puzzles support the development of various geometric topics while building spatial reasoning and problem solving. Fractions are a natural fit with tangrams as is area and linear measurement.
This 31-page packet includes:
literacy connections and ideas for creating tangrams as well as discussion prompts to use as students are creating a tangram;
Ideas for investigating shapes and discussion prompts to use as students are investigating shapes;
Ideas for using tangrams to study fractions and discussion prompts to use as students are working with fractions and tangrams;
art activity suggestions and resources; and
several extensions with resources.
Blackline masters and sets of task cards are also included. Activities and ideas for all grade levels and for various levels to support differentiation.
This resource is good for students with Dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!
NCTM describes “representation” as referring to both a process and a product. So mathematical representations include all the different ways that students depict their thinking as well as the processes they use to put their thinking into those forms. Representations have often been taught as an end in and of themselves, most as essential elements in supporting students’ understanding. When students gain access to mathematical representations and the ideas they express they acquire a set of tools that significantly expand their capacity to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.
The place value activity takes two- and three-digit numbers and represents them through a concrete manipulative, the written symbol, a verbal symbol, a diagram, picture, graph, drawing, or table, and an algebraic representation with a mathematical sentence. There is also a contextual problem for the students to work through. There are six sets of cards, each with 6 representations with facilitation notes. The fraction activity takes common fractions and represents them through a concrete manipulative, a verbal symbol, a fraction model, a number line representation, and a symbolic representation. There is also a contextual problem for the students to work through. There are five sets of cards, each with 6 representations with facilitation notes.
This resource is good for students with Dyslexia and language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!
Do trade books have a place in today’s mathematics classroom? Yes!
Incorporating literature into the mathematics classroom at any level can increase student engagement, can make mathematics come alive as well as have meaning, and can help to differentiate instruction as well as support ELL/ESL students. Present mathematics in a way that will make mathematics more accessible and understandable for students at all levels.
This resource contains five suggested activities to engage students AS YOU READ, for students to experience BEING A MATHEMATICIAN, and provide students authentic OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITING. The suggested activities can be adapted for large or small groups, centers, learning stations and for intervention. Crimes and Mathdemeanors by Leith Hathout is A MUST HAVE book for all teachers and is NOT included in this download.
This resource is good for students with language-based learning deficiencies. We'd like to hear about your experience with our resources. Just give it a star rating then tell us what you think, simple as that!