Mini Math Monday: 1st Grade Operations and Algebraic Thinking

 I am SO in love with this SMARTboard lesson!!  It gives such a comprehensive look at 1st Grade Operations and Algebraic Thinking.

It can be used whole group at the smartboard, on individual student computers, or, and this is the exciting part, as an APP on your ipad!!

There are a total of seventy questions in this lessons.  On the very first slide you'll see that you can actually jump ahead to any set of questions...so you don't ALWAYS have to start at question number one!  Your student can quickly jump to practice question 50 or 60 if they need to.

Each standard in the Operations and Algebraic Thinking is included here.  Questions are colorful and engaging.  Many have graphics and others are purely word problems for an excellent variety of questions.

I LOVE making these type of lessons!!!  The response I've had on them is very encouraging.

You can click on any of the pictures here to find out more about it.

Mini-Math Monday. My dice obssession.

Do you love dice as much as I do? Because I LOVE them!! They have always been one of my favorite centers! There is nothing you can't do with dice! One year I gave them as Christmas gifts to my students along with several pages of math games we had been playing in class. They were SUCH a hit! I know we like to give cutesy gifts at Christmas... but you should REALLY consider giving dice! Games to play with dice: add 2 dice together.. write out the equation on a dry erase board, roll dice and subtract, roll three dice and add, roll three dice & add two two of them together and subtract the third, roll and multiply, roll to see how far to advance on the game board, roll and cover that many squares on your hundreds chart... it's endless.   I LOVE the idea of the containers!!  I saw this on pinterest and the photo links back to the original pin if you want to repin it.  I never actually did this in my class, but wish I had.. oh my gosh those dice can fly!



What games do you play with your dice? If you sell games on TpT, I don't mind you linking to your cool dice game! If you do, just tell how you play the game!