One of the challenges we all face in the classroom is finding activities for students who finish early. This is an important topic because we know what happens when kids end up with extra time in class with nothing to do! If students are getting bored, they can find all kinds of ways to get themselves into trouble. In this article you will find 37 free early finisher worksheets that will engage students in mathematical learning.

Engaging struggling students is a important and productive undertaking in every classroom. I am excited to share with you today a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) lesson that connects to the language arts curriculum. I designed this STEM lesson plan template that students will love, based on “The Three Little Pigs” fairy tale. 

In this article, you will find three ways that principals and math coaches can get feedback from mathematics teachers. We will be looking at math survey questions for teachers, principal evaluation forms for teachers, and conversation prompts. In addition, you will find free printable teacher feedback surveys that can be used to survey teaching departments and curriculum/school evaluation forms that can be used by principals and coaches to survey a variety of educational stakeholders.

Playing with pattern blocks, tangrams, and other manipulatives in order to create new shapes can be fun for early elementary students. In addition to being fun, there are many important concepts that students can develop while working to build and decompose shapes. This article discusses the concepts that can be developed, the kind of vocabulary students use to develop these concepts, and some tools you can use to help students build these ideas. The download that accompanies this post is a decomposing shapes worksheet with an answer key that you can use with your students today.

In this article, you'll discover how to help students develop an understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction! These algebraic thinking worksheets will assist you with the primary goal of initiating algebraic thinking—the relationship between addition and subtraction—in the early grades.

This post and its related worksheets provide you with materials to help your students with visual representation of adding fractions using models, such as number lines and fraction strips.