Kims Number Line Petite— PDF

Kim’s Number Line Petite is the individual student tool version of Kim’s Number Line. This amazing class visual comes alive for students with their own version. Kim’s Number Line Petite includes strips for 0-144 and negative numbers -1 through -50. The color-coded system is included so that students can create a tool for skip counting, multiples, factors and simplifying fractions.

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Place Value Concentration - Ladybug K-1PDF

Place Value Concentration Ladybug includes 32 cards for kindergarten and first grade to be used on a class concentration board three times a week. This game will practice visual assessment of quantities 1-32 using pictures of ladybugs arranged in ones and groups of ten. The game can also be used in small group activities. The directions for making a class concentration board are included. The board will give students an opportunity to practice coordinate graphing and can be used with any of Kim’s concentration games.

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Place Value Concentration - Primary 1’s and 10’s PDF

Place Value Concentration for Primary includes 36 cards for first and second grades with ones and tens pictorially and matching numbers. The cards can be used whole class with a class concentration board. Directions are included for constructing the board. Students will practice coordinate graphing for the location of the cards. The game can also be played in small group activities. Concentration is a lively class activity with many powerful returns.

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Place Value Concentration - Intermediate 1’s, 10’s and 100’s PDF

Place Value Concentration for Intermediate includes 36 cards for second, third and fourth grades with ones, tens and hundreds pictorially and matching numbers. The cards can be used whole class with a class concentration board. Directions are included for constructing the board. Students will practice coordinate graphing for the location of the cards. The game can also be played in small group activities. Concentration is a lively class activity with many powerful returns. Concentration can be used for any skill that needs reinforcement.

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Race Around - Money and Mental Math - Dimes and Pennies PDF

Race Around is a powerful whole class or small group game created by Dr. Lola May.This version will practice mental math using dimes and pennies using 36 cards with the “I have, who has” format.Students will have fun racing around the classroom improving their elapsed time with each game.Included is the blank master so a teacher can create new games and a money mat to show pictures of the amounts.

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Race Around - Money and Mental Math - Dimes, Nickels and Pennies PDF

Race Around is a powerful whole class or small group game created by Dr. Lola May.This version will practice mental math using dimes, nickels and pennies using 36 cards with the “I have, who has” format.Students will have fun racing around the classroom improving their elapsed time with each game.Included is the blank master so a teacher can create new games and a money mat to show pictures of the amounts.

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Race Around - Money and Mental Math - Quarters, Dimes, Nickels and Pennies PDF

Race Around is a powerful whole class or small group game created by Dr. Lola May.This version will practice mental math using quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies and 36 cards with the “I have, who has” format.Students will have fun racing around the classroom improving their elapsed time with each game.Included is the blank master so a teacher can create new games and a money mat to show pictures of the amounts.

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Number Trails Gameboards—Primary PDF

Your students will love this game! There are three levels—primary, intermediate and upper. The primary set is intended for K-1 and practices multiples of two, five, and ten with the number range 1-30. Each set has twelve gameboards, one for each month. A spinner is used to determine the number of spaces to move. Each move will give each player a number. Points are earned for each turn based on the multiples for that number. Players will use a scoring tool and scorecard to keep track of their scores. This game will become a constant in your classroom as students become experts at knowing number properties!

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Number Trails Gameboards—Intermediate PDF

Your students will love this game! There are three levels—primary, intermediate and upper. The intermediate set is designed for grades 2-3 and practices multiples/factors of two, three, five, and ten with the number range 1-99. Each set has twelve gameboards, one for each month. A spinner is used to determine the number of spaces to move. Each move will give each player a number. Points are earned for each turn based on the multiples/factors for that number. Players will use a scoring tool and scorecard to keep track of their scores. This game will become a constant in your classroom as students become experts at knowing number properties!

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Number Trails Gameboards—Upper PDF

Your students will love this game! There are three levels—primary, intermediate and upper. The intermediate set is intended for grades 4-5 and practices multiples/factors of two, three, five, and ten with the number range 1-99. Each set has twelve gameboards, one for each month. A spinner is used to determine the number of spaces to move. Each move will give each player a number. Points are earned for each turn based on the multiples/factors for that number. Players will use a scoring tool and scorecard to keep track of their scores. This game will become a constant in your classroom as students become experts at knowing number properties!

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Math Riddle Board #1 PDF

Math Riddle Board #1 PDF - Math Riddle Boards have been extremely popular in Kim Sutton’s classroom and now they are available to you. This set of 18 includes the directions for making Riddle Boards throughout the school year. It also includes a set of questions and answers ready to be inserted on a Riddle Board. Kim puts out a new Riddle Board each month to encourage logical thinking and reading comprehension. Students will work hard to figure out each riddle and eagerly await the next board!

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Math Riddles #2 PDF

Math Riddle Boards have been extremely popular in Kim Sutton’s classroom and now they are available to you. This second set of 18 riddles includes the directions for making Riddle Boards throughout the school year. It also includes a set of questions and answers ready to be inserted on a Riddle Board. Kim puts out a new Riddle Board each month to encourage logical thinking and reading comprehension. Students will work hard to figure out each riddle and eagerly await the next board!

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Math Riddles #3 - PDF

Math Riddle Boards have been extremely popular in Kim Sutton’s classroom and now they are available to you. This third set of 18 riddles includes the directions for making Riddle Boards throughout the school year. It also includes a set of questions and answers ready to be inserted on a Riddle Board. Kim puts out a new Riddle Board each month to encourage logical thinking and reading comprehension. Students will work hard to figure out each riddle and eagerly await the next board!

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Halloween Riddles PDF

Halloween Riddles make the month of October fun and exciting. This set of 18 Halloween riddles includes the directions for making Riddle Boards throughout the school year. Your students will love the fun in this set of comprehension and logic riddles centered on a holiday theme. Challenge your students to find another set on their own!

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Geography Riddles—North, Central, and South America PDF

Geography Riddles—North, Central, and South America -These geography riddles offer students the opportunity to have fun looking at the map and learning! This set includes 18 riddles about North, Central, and South America. Directions are given for making the Riddle Boards a monthly center for logic and comprehension. Add another set to your classroom collection!

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Geography Riddles—Europe, Asia, and Africa PDF

Geography Riddles—Europe, Asia, and Africa -These geography riddles offer students the opportunity to have fun looking at the map and learning! This set includes 18 riddles about Europe, Asia, and Africa. Directions are given for making the Riddle Boards a monthly center for logic and comprehension. Add another set to your classroom collection!

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Spill the Beans Booklets - PDF

There are nine booklets included in this set of Spill the Beans Booklets. Directions are included for constructing the booklets. Students will use two-color counters or beans to spill and form addition equations from sums of two through ten following an included lesson plan. The pages of the booklets allow students many practice opportunities for number decomposition. These booklets can also be used for experimental probability activities. Students will feel like they are playing a game while reinforcing addition comprehension and combinations!

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Tangram Area Animals PDF

Tangram Area Animals - This set of 18 animal puzzle cards is used with tangrams. Students can use the Tangram Area Animals to create stories that accompany the rich geometry experience. Each puzzle uses one set of seven tangram pieces. Instructions for cutting tangrams that direct students in active participation are included as well as the age-old story of Tan and the puzzle solutions.

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Geometry Match-Up Concentration PDF

This game is a mainstay in every elementary classroom. This version of Kim Sutton’s game, Match-Up Concentration, is reinforcement of powerful math language. This comprehensive set of vocabulary cards includes all of the important terms for elementary geometry. The game includes directions for making the Concentration Board and 48 geometry vocabulary cards with matching pictures or definitions of meaning. This game can be used in small groups or whole class. The board is constructed so that student’s use ordered pairs to locate matching cards. Check out Kim’s other version of Match-Up Concentration!

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Learning Link Ideas for Primary Math PDF

Learning links are a wonderful manipulative that can be used to cover very intensive primary math understandings. Kim Sutton shares many ideas in this 12-page unit for using Learning Links as a regular tool in the primary classroom. Included in this unit are ideas for properties of numbers, access to basic facts, attributes of objects, construction of graphs, properties of shapes, perimeter and area, and calendar activities. This unit should be inserted into every primary teacher’s math binder!

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Multiplication and Division of Fractions with Pattern Blocks PDF

Part of Kim Sutton’s basic philosophy of teaching elementary mathematics incorporates the use of pattern blocks as a powerful tool with mathematical content. Upper grade teachers often struggle with how to create an understanding of multiplication and division of fractions. This unit is a script that upper grade teachers can use to build a strong foundation of understanding with these two difficult computational areas with fractions.

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Math Choices are sets of activities following specific themes that emphasize important math concepts and motivational strategies. Each activity is written directly to the students for ease with small group or whole group settings. I often used these Choice activities for a whole month during small group time in my classroom; students would even do the Choice activities on rainy indoor recess! The sessions include data sheets and ask students to respond to thought-provoking math questions after completion. These Math Choices are ideal for students Grades 2-5.

Apple Choices - PDF

Apple Choices are a set of eight activities that emphasize data analysis, graphing, measurement, computation, and algebraic thinking. Several literature titles are used in the activities to increase student motivation. Fall is an especially fun time to explore mathematics in an apple theme.

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Halloween Choices- PDF

Halloween Choices are so fun and motivational that students are unaware of the mathematical intensity! This unit includes many sorting and classification opportunities using Venn Diagrams and graphs along with measurement, logic, and discrete mathematics. This unit is filled with constructions that are fun but very mathematical! Students can even construct and illustrate their own counting book! Make math a priority even at Halloween time!

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Valentine Choices - PDF

Valentine Choices are eight activities and data sheets that encourage even the most reluctant students to love math. This unit emphasizes algebraic thinking and fractions, and includes tons of probability practice! Students will have their own “fat free conversation hearts” that speak loudly with important facts and statements about mathematics. February will become Algebra Month as your students explore math at Valentine’s time!

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U.S. Money Choices- PDF

Money Choices include eight activities to motivate students learning the valuing system with coins. This set of activities includes coordinate graphing with a fun concentration game, exploring decomposition of an amount of money, logic and reasoning, and opportunities to do computation. Students will have many opportunities to see the heads and tails of each coin. There is a Canadian and a United States version of the Money Choices.

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Canadian Money Choices - PDF

Money Choices include eight activities to motivate students learning the valuing system with coins. This set of activities includes coordinate graphing with a fun concentration game, exploring decomposition of an amount of money, logic and reasoning, and opportunities to do computation. Students will have many opportunities to see the heads and tails of each coin. There is a Canadian and a United States version of the Money Choices.

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Crayon Choices - A Set of Math Choices - PDF

Crayon Choices are eight activities designed around a patterning theme. Students will explore repeating and growth patterns along with geometry, measurement, and algebraic thinking. This unit provides lots of function work with T-Tables. Crayon Choices is colorful and ready to go for practical use in your classroom tomorrow!

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Cross Number Puzzles PDF

Kim Sutton’s Cross Number Puzzles includes 30 blackline masters at three levels that will challenge students in grades 2-5. These puzzles use addition and subtraction skills plus encourage algebraic thinking. The puzzles are set up in a unique way that allows students to work on scanning skills. The puzzles are self-checking. Also included in the set are answer keys for each puzzle. These puzzles are great seatwork tools that reinforce computation and algebraic thinking!

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