Math Masters

I have enjoyed being a fifth grade math masters coach for the past two years.  The eagerness of my students has been contagious!  I have spent time researching fun activities that I can incorporate into our team practice sessions.  

The areas that I focus on with my teams are fact drills, order of operations, fractions, problem solving, and team work.  Here are a few things that I have created or found online from others.  

This is one of the hands on activities I made for my order of operation lesson plan. The students' start with no clips on the circle and once they work out the problem they clip on the correct answer. I then had them take a picture of them once they were done so I could correct them later.

These circles that I made let my Math Masters students inform me that they were still working or done with an assigned math problem. One of my students liked to yell several times that she was done with the assigned problem. I found this to be distracting to the other students that were still working and even to myself. The circles provided a way for my students' to tell that they are done with the problem but in a way that was not distracting to the other students and myself.

My students loved warming up for practice by playing I Have Who Has.  I passed out the cards evenly to all the students and let them play.  This game kept them on their toes by making them pay attention to what was being said and made them quick with their fact recall.