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Math problems can be overwhelming if you don’t even know what the problem is asking. Instead of starting at the beginning, this video suggests you start at the end. It’s a part of a series on problem solving. Tips and Tricks to make problem solving easier. Video from our educational […]

VIDEO – Problem solving: Start at the End

March 11, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers / Third Grade by Daniel Mondaca

Spirit Lake game twitter — “Long multiplication” is just multiplying larger numbers. Sure, you were fine with 2 x 2 but once you got to 278 x 42 it was not so easy. Don’t worry. Be happy. Let us give you an example of how to solve a long multiplication problem. Like this video? You’ll […]

VIDEO – How to Solve Long Multiplication

March 11, 2019 in 7GenGames / Fourth Grade / Math / Mathematics / multiplication / Teachers / Two-digit multiplication by Daniel Mondaca

Estimating or approximating is making an educated guess as to what the answer might be. If you don’t believe me watch the following video that explains how to use estimation to solve math problems. It’s one of our most popular videos. I’m not sure if it’s the usefulness of estimation […]

VIDEO – Estimation and the world’s largest Venus fly trap

March 11, 2019 in Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Math / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

Fish Lake: Two Ojibwe men in a canoe — What does “mixed form” mean? How do you convert from a mixed fraction to a, well, regular fraction? Watch this video and have your fraction questions answered. This is a video from our game FISH LAKE. GET IT HERE In Fish Lake, players practice math problem-solving strategies while learning how […]

VIDEO – Mixed form to fraction from

March 7, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

Making Camp Lakota screen for mini-game choices — Not knowing the proper division terms can lead to very big problems! Watch this video from our game Making Camp Premium to see why we need to learn division. Also, you’ll learn some division vocabulary such as dividend, divisor, quotient, and remainder, that will definitely help you. Check it out! […]

VIDEO – Division Terms

February 15, 2019 in 7GenGames / Division / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Math / problem-solving by Daniel Mondaca

Pass and Fail are antonyms — What’s an antonym? An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. Adjectives can have antonyms. So can adverbs and verbs . Did you know that sometimes you can make a word into its antonym just by adding a prefix? Don’t know what a prefix is? Watch […]

Ten minute lesson: Antonyms

February 11, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Meg and Joe with their apple trees — Watch this video if you would like to learn how to visualize to solve your problems or at least your math problems. We can’t help you with the other stuff, although visualizing can help you achieve many other goals! For now, we are learning how to visualize math problems with […]

VIDEO- Problem Solving: Visualize

February 8, 2019 in Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Freebie Friday / Math / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by Julia De Mars

Problem-solving:Estimiate — Rounding, estimating, and Venus fly traps oh my! Don’t be intimidated, this will be an exciting adventure on the journey to get Jenny to see the world’s largest Venus fly trap with math. Like this freebie? Then you’ll love Making Camp Premium. So many great activities on math, history, and […]

VIDEO- Estimation and the world’s largest Venus fly trap

February 1, 2019 in Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Freebie Friday / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by Julia De Mars

Zombies — Think we couldn’t fit zombies into a video on math terms? Ha! You underestimate us! Sometimes students get a problem wrong not because they don’t know the answer but because they don’t understand the question. What is the difference between 210 and 11 ? Well, one is a three-digit number […]

Math Terms with Zombies: Ten-Minute Lesson

January 28, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / problem-solving / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

spaghetti — Word Problems are Hard for Many Students. Here’s one way to make these easier I don’t care how old you are, word problems can confuse you. This is particularly true when you have a lot of extra information. That’s what the world is like, though. When you need to figure […]

Ten-minute lesson: Problem-solving tip for word problems – Start at ...

January 24, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Division / Fourth Grade / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

giraffe — If Janie had 3 avocados and Frank owns 2 giraffes, how many hippopotamuses does it take to make it rain for 6 days? Do word problems ever make you feel like this? Many students who have no problem with “What is 12 x 4?” get stuck when the question involves […]

Build a model: Ten minutes on problem-solving

January 23, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / multiplication / problem-solving by AnnMaria De Mars

Label the terms 512/2 =256 — Quick! Which one is the dividend and which is the divisor? Unless, you have learned, or taught, division fairly recently, I bet you had to to think about it for a while. Maybe you don’t even know. Here is a video to help learn the quotient from the remainder. This […]

Division Terms: What really trips students up in learning division

January 22, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Division / Fourth Grade / Mathematics / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars