Scholars boost subtraction skills with a multiplayer learning game. Jet skis race through the water, gaining speed and distance with every correct answer a learner provides.

A learning game tests scholars' subtraction skills. While playing, participants use a canon to subtract the slime away by choosing the correct equations that correspond with the number shown. 

Reliable news stories are based on facts from reliable sources. Young journalists learn how to evaluate the reliability of news sources by watching a short explainer video. Teams apply their new source-digging skills to a current news...

Distinguishing among different types of content when conducting online searches can be a challenge. An informative resource helps researchers identify different types of content, from fact-based reports to ads, from propaganda to satire....

To understand how personal perspectives can affect policy and politics, scholars examine the woman suffrage media map and historical artifacts to analyze arguments for and against women's suffrage. Class members then take on the role of...

What does it take to create a scientific theory? Learners attempt to answer the question by studying the work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. While watching a video, they track observations from each scientist and then look...

Learners play a simple multiplication game in which they look at the number on each of the slides, and write down the multiplication facts that would give them that number. For example, 24 could get four different factor pairs. Fun...

Expand your fourth graders' multiplication skills with 20 basic problems. Once kids finish the math drills, they work on two word problems at the bottom of the page. Use the resource as a homework assignment or quick in-class assessment....

Who can finish this multiplication drill first? Third graders practice their 8 times tables with this speed trial, which includes 60 multiplication problems. Each problem multiplies 8 by a number from 1 to 10. Give the whole page as an...

Bring out the pegboards for this one! As you introduce multiplication, explain it as sets of objects using these visual practice problems. Learners look at eight pegboards with varying rows filled. For each, they fill in two sentences...

By asking learners to identify multiples of 6, 7, and 8, you will be able to assess their grasp of these multiplication facts. For each of these numbers learners examine five set of digits and circle the multiples from the sets. A final...

Could your third graders use some practice with their multiplication tables? Use 60 basic multiplication problems to reinforce mental math and times tables. You could give all 60 problems to your class at once, or you could cut up the...

Challenge your third graders' multiplication skills with multiplication drills. After reviewing the times tables up to 10, have them work on sixty problems, either as a unit assessment or a time trial. For a shorter activity, cut each...

Reinforce basic division skills with 60 division drills. Each problem divides a two-digit number by a one-digit number, and provides a space for third graders to write their answers. Use the activity as a timed test in class or as an...

Get some practice with times tables! Six grids reinforce multiplication skills with single digit numbers. Use the instructional activity as a review tool for an upcoming multiplication assessment.

Administer an activity that fosters a child's understanding of multiples. Young mathematicians are guided to complete three tasks on a multiplication chart. Once they color the boxes with multiples of two, three, and four, learners...