MEGA Maths Teacher Appreciation Sale on TPT

Catch yourself a bargain with up to 28% off all of the items in my TpT store!

Maths, Maths anything maths... Worksheets... Game boards.. Cards... Math Centers... Everything you can imagine and items you've wishlisted! :)

This is to say THANK YOU to all the amazing teachers out there and to all of those who have supported my store.

FREEBIE! Rounding to 5c MathCenters

It has been a while since I posted a FREEBIE, so here it is!!!

Rounding to the nearest 5cents just in time for Easter!

This FREEBIE contains:

12 x Rounding to 5c domino cards

2 x Rounding to 5c Matching Worksheets

with instructions and answer keys.

This FREEBIE gives a snippet of my much larger 88 page Rounding to 5c Unit I created in Easter and Regular Theme.

I have 28 Year 8 homework books to mark now! I managed to mark my Year 8s spelling test during lunch on Friday after they sat it, and some outstanding results.

Over and out for now (and a few days too) because this is my week! AAAARRRrrgggghhhhh

Monday: Staff meeting 3-4pm

Tuesday: School PD 3-5pm

Wednesday: 3-4pm School Math tutoring

Thursday: 1-4pm PVM PD, 5-7 Griffith Tutorials

Friday: 6-8:30 Max's Swimming Club Night

The COMPLETE Perimeter, Area & Volume Collection

This complete collection contains over 174 pages and at least 7 Math Centre resources (with various levels and activities in each centre) to use in your classroom.

To make for an easier unit download, I have included the FREE Math Posters, FREE Perimeter, Area & Volume Wordwall, Free Dominoes and for FREE for you, Math Word Wall!!!!

This would all cost $27.25 to buy individually, but  20% off for bulk purchase makes it $21.80! Over $5 savings!

See the links for more detailed information due to the number of activities included.

Perimeter, Area & Volume Math Center Cards #2 - Valentines Day & Regular theme

Circumference & Area of Circles - 8 worksheets with Answers

Math Center Volume of Prisms - Rotation Cards

Perimeter, Area & Volume Math Center Cards #1

Christmas Perimeter Activity Cards

I Have, Who Has - Area of Square & Rectangle

Unit Conversion, Perimeter & Area Pack

FREE - Perimeter & Area Posters - A4 or A3

FREE - Perimeter, Area & Volume Word Wall - 20 words

FREE - Aussie Area Dominoes - Square, Rectangle & Triangle

Math Word Wall - Other words for....

Distributive Law Math Centres

This very bright and engaging distributive law math centre is ready to just print, laminate and use! There are 272 question cards over 5 levels! 

Easy to read instructions and answer keys provided for all activities. One landscape and one portrait recording sheet provided for each of the 5 levels.

It also comes with a game board which can be used as five separate leveled games or as one large game board with all the cards in use!

See thumbnails and preview for more detailed information due to the number of pages included.

Distributive Law Word Wall contains 18 word walls and 6 blank word walls.

For a short time this Math Centre is 20% off!

I look forward to using it for my second unit of the year! It's taken some time to put together with aaalllllll (272) of the question cards aaaannndddd answers, so it's been two weeks in the making around school, work and holidays!

Perimeter, Area & Volume Activity Cards - Valentine's Day & Regular Themes!!

I've been lucky enough to have some time on my hands to complete a second set of cards around perimeter, area and volume!

Unlike the last set I created, Perimeter, Area & Volume Math Center Cards #1 has three sets of 12 cards, this set has three sets of 16 cards with an increased difficulty level.
ALSO 20% off this item for a little while! :)

There are two themes to this set so you can use them all year round! A Valentines Day theme and a Regular theme. All answers are provided to the cards to make student checking much easier!

It seems I will have more laminating to do now! *I secretly LOVE laminating!!* :)

FREE Probability Math Centre/er

I've finished a probability FREEBIE for you all tonight! It's a multilevel Math Centre waiting just for you to print and laminate (we all have a laminating addiction... admit it! :) )

I've made some changes to this unit and also added more to my Probability Unit on TpT!

Easy to read instructions and answer keys provided for all activities!

Included in this freebie is: 

-Blank Word Walls for your students to add their own probability words (Excellent to give students ownership of their learning!)

-Probability Shapes Level 1 - __out of __ (16 Questions)

-Probability Shapes Level 2 - Writing as a fraction (16 Questions)

-Probability Items Level 3 Worksheet - Writing as a fraction and simplifying (10 Questions )

It's about to hit midnight here and we go back to school in just over a week! I'm in denial! I know I am because I wouldn't be up this late otherwise! I need to get back into the 'school' routine ASAP!

Finally finished NEW Data Unit 20% OFF!

This unit has taken a lot of time to put together and I'm so pleased I'll have it ready for the new school year! :) So far I am teaching year 8 and 9's with 11 and 12 PVM, but if I get my Day 8 transfer, I will be teaching year 7's!
Awesomely this data unit will be able to be used with any of these year levels/ classes!
This Data Unit is 20% off on in TpT Store and I will upload it very soon to TeachersNotebook!

It includes:

• 16 word walls with 8 blanks, 6 domino mean, median, mode & range math centres over 2 levels
• 8 Math Centre A4 page Worksheets
• 1 x Math Game with three different game boards to choose from with 132 cards (33 mean, 33 median, 33 mode, 33 range.

In Australia, we're all getting ready to go back to school in the next two weeks! TWO WEEKS!

WHERE did those HOLIDAYS go!?

They allllwayyysss FLLLLYYYYYYYYYY by, but I guess that means we've enjoyed the holidays to make them fly! :)

Our school voted on the student free days to be Wednesday, Thursday & Friday from 9am-4pm, so we're back in 11 days!

The kids don't come back until Tuesday 29th January because Monday is Australia Day's public holiday in lieu of because the public holiday is on the Saturday!

Between now and then we have a roof of a Gazebo to build, finish renovating downstairs, make a new FREEBIE and prepare for the new school year!

Any FREEBIE ideas!? :) 

NEW Probability Unit

I've finally finished Uni (Master of Education half complete!!!) for this semester and have had some time last night to complete my Probability Unit! It's 20% off for a little while too! :)

The unit has 20 probability word walls to display around your room with the 7 activities being very engaging, colourful and multilevel  for students. They can be laminated and used as Math Centres or photocopied in grayscale and used as worksheets!

Level 1 and 2 students write as ___ out of ___ and level 3 students write as a fraction and simplify where possible.

Your little ones will be  ready to roll! Easy to read instructions with examples and answers included for all! 

I cannot wait to spend more time on my resources now I will have the time! I cannot believe it's week 5 this week already! My year 12's are finished at the end of week 6! Time is flying... 

My FIRST Halloween & NEW Probability Unit

We don't really celebrate Halloween in Australia and consequently I've never dressed up in Halloween costume!

The closest I've come to Halloween is our Annual Kiters Sports Day and as you can see from the pictures in 2010 it was Angels & Devils themed!

It will be REALLY EASY to dress Scott & Max up as Devils! Me on the other hand... I have a witches hat... and that's it =\  We're also going to carve a pumpkin too! ANOTHER FIRST!

I'd love some suggestions as to what to wear for Halloween?

A sneak peak of the Probability Unit!

I've also been working on a probability unit with 20 Probability Word Walls and so far with 7 separate math centres over three levels!

I'm still working on Instructions, more levels and answers. I'm excited to complete this unit and use it next year (who knows what year level I'll have then!).

What else would you like to see in your probability units?
 

FREE Coordinate Math Center Game

This FREE math center game has 12 different task cards over 4 levels and full solutions provided for each card. Students need to identify that the points on a Cartesian plane are represented by what is called an ordered pair or coordinates as ( X value, Y value ). The 4 levels range from 1 quadrant up to using all four quadrants. 

I cannot wait to print this set and use it with my year 8 and 9s who need a simple yet engaging way to practise identifying coordinates/ ordered pairs. We often only have "time" to focus on the set curriculum and this gives me the opportunity to include a review of coordinate mapping in my math rotations!

This freebie is the first of a Coordinate & Mapping Skills set I am working on which covers identifying points, plotting points, plotting shapes/ objects and transformations. I hope you find it as useful as I will! :)

Seal KISS & 5 days left...

Talk about exhausted! There are 5 school days left of this term and after completing 124 different report cards for Maths this weekend, Max's (step-son) swimming club night, Saturday squad & Little Athletics, I've finished it off with my husband and Max at Underwater World. I even managed a seal kiss - It was amazing. The 1.5 hour drive each way was completely worth it :)



My Seal Kiss



I've blogged before about how I've organised my Math Center and I must say it has been working extremely well. Both my year 8 classes have an A3 laminated page with all the current Math Center activities listed at the top of the columns. My activities that contain two or more levels, I have split then into different activity levels as you can see on my chart.

Even my year 8's (12-14 year olds) love coming to show me their working out, solutions and their honesty when they mark their work and have made an error in their calculations. I have had some time to take a photo and the below picture shows my year 8's beginning to play my Pirate Percentage & Fraction Dominoes game.



Pirate Percentage & Fraction Dominoes

It's so great to see them working together to solve Mathematics problems and having Mathematical arguments as to who is right and who is wrong, then calling me over to "end" it!



I always wonder what other type of theme parks like UnderwaterWorld there are around the world!? Is that what they are called still - a theme park even if it's animals!?

Favourite Fraction Game & my upcoming SALE!

This year especially, I've found my year 8 and 9 students don't have the understanding of fractions that they should! Considering they should have this understanding of fractions, decimals and percentages at a year 5/6 level, it's SCARRY!

One of the more engaging ways I check for student understanding is to use my Jumping Fractions 5 Ways game throughout relevant units and as a general review throughout the term.

The reason I check for understanding this way is that all students can match the visual representation with the fraction. Then from there the language and it becomes either the percentage, decimal OR simplified fraction that they struggle with.

To ensure this game covers the various learning abilities, I split it into four sets.

• Set 1 - 83 cards - Match tenths fractions in all representations
• Set 2 - 31 cards - Match fifths fractions in all representations
• Set 3 - 25 cards – Match quarters fractions in all representations
• Set 4 - 9 cards – Additional simplified fraction cards to add to each level.
 

I have 4 more TpT items to sell until I reach my 20 sales and another FLASH % off SALE! :) What % discount would you like to see 5%, 10%, 15% or 20% OR would you like to see 35% off four items - If so, you can choose which ones! :) The most popular response will be it, so get in soon! :)

Thank you to everyone who has supported me and purchased some of my items! If you have any requests or theme suggestions you'd like to see, please let me know!!
 

New Math Area FREEBIE!

Another 12 hours to go until my flash 36 hour 15% off sale is over! Because of the wonderful response I've had on here and TpT I've created a new FREEBIE! :)

The freebie, Aussie Area Dominoes - Square, Rectangle & Triangle meets CCSS 3.MD.8 - 4.MD.3 - 5.MD.3,4,5 or if you're in Australia, they suit ACARA year 7, 8 and learning support year 9.

They are perfect for Math centers and are played like a normal game of dominoes.

Set 1 - Rectangle - 27 Area Cards
Set 2 - Square - 18 Area Cards
Set 3 - Triangle - 27 Area Cards

The dominoes are in order so that if printed, the go in the order that appears; so aswers are included with the activity.