Boggle Board

Last school year I made a math boggle board in my classroom. This was a GREAT activity to have for students who finished early. To my surprise, students of all ages and levels enjoyed working on the boggle board. Simply the board has 16 numbers and one target number. The goal is for the students to use the most amount of numbers to get to the target number. The students start with any number on the boggle board. They move either up, down, left, right, or diagonal to another number. Then the students can either add, subtract, multiply, or divide their first number with their second. Next they will take that answer, move to another number that is up, down, left, right, or diagonal, and either add, subtract, multiply or divide. The students will repeat this step as many times as needed until they have used the most numbers to reach the target number. At the end of the week, I gave out prizes to the student who was able to use the most numbers correctly.

I have created two 'cute' boards with different target numbers, and student record sheet in my TpT store.http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/MATH-BOGGLE-BOARDS-802904

Vocabulary Review

This year all of the 5th grade Talent and Development Program students (students who test above the 91%ile) from my district participated in the Disney Planet Challenge. This year we focused on the topic of health and created a variety of activities that ranged from research and presentations to field trips and school wide projects. One way we rolled out the vocabulary to the group was by using the idea of a headbands game. The words were brainstormed by students, then the teachers made them into cards to place on headbands. The students then needed to describe the word to the student wearing the word on their headband without giving it away. Then once the student guessed the word being described, they received another card. The student with the most correct words was named the winner!

OREO: Mean, Median, Mode, Range

As I was cruising around Pinterest, I found a great activity that used Oreos for a mean lesson. I decided to take it a step further and incorporate mode, median, and range too. Simply, I divided my students into groups and gave each group a pack of Oreos. The students then needed to see how many Oreos they could stack on top of one another before the tower of Oreos collapsed. Once the tower collapsed, they need to determine the mean, median, mode, and range of the number of Oreos in the tower. I have a FREE download to use with this lesson in my TpT store. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/2-The-Square-Root-Of-It