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Response to Intervention | Intervention Central. The Game That Is Worth 1,000 Worksheets. [Rescued from my old blog. Image via Wikipedia.] Math concepts: greater-than/less-than, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, negative numbers, absolute value, and multi-step problem solving. Have you and your children been struggling to learn the math facts? The game of Math Card War is worth more than a thousand math drill worksheets, letting you build your children’s calculating speed in a no-stress, no-test way.

Set Up You will need several decks of math cards. As my students learn their math facts, they need extra practice on the hard-to-remember ones like 6 × 8. [This is an old, classic children’s game. How to Play Basic War—Each player turns one card face up. Endgame When the players have fought their way through the entire deck, count the prisoners.

Variations For most variations, the basic 3-down-1-up battle pattern becomes 2-down-2-up. Addition War—Players turn up two cards for each skirmish. Product War—Turn up two cards and multiply. Update. CSEDWeek.org. Online tools and applications - Go2web20. ESU 4 Vocabulary Strategies - home.

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Word problems. Mathcounts. Binary Number System. Computers use binary digits. And some puzzles can be solved using binary numbers. A Binary Number is made up of only 0s and 1s. There is no 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 9 in Binary! How do we Count using Binary? The same thing is done in binary ... And that is what we do in binary ... See how it is done in this little demonstration (press play): Decimal vs Binary Here are some equivalent values: Here are some larger equivalent values: "Binary is as easy as 1, 10, 11.

" Position In the Decimal System there are the Units, Tens, Hundreds, etc In Binary, there are Units, Twos, Fours, etc, like this: Numbers can be placed to the left or right of the point, to indicate values greater than one or less than one. Example: 10.1 The "10" means 2 in decimal, The ".1" means half, So "10.1" in binary is 2.5 in decimal You can do conversions at Binary to Decimal to Hexadecimal Converter. Words The word binary comes from "Bi-" meaning two.

A single binary digit (like "0" or "1") is called a "bit". How to Show that a Number is Binary.

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Lessons. Education Partnership Network | Educate. Communicate. Collaborate. Blogs. Socrative | Student Response System | Audience Response Systems | Clicker | Clickers | Student Clickers | ARS | Mobile Clicker | Software Clicker. Planning materials. Common Core Standards. 8th Grade Content Standards. Problems of the Month: Non-routine problems designed to be used schoolwide to promote a problem-solving theme. Each problem is divided into five levels of difficulty, Level A (primary) through Level E (high school). The problems are aligned to the Common Core standards. Learn more here. Performance assessment tasks: Grade-level formative performance assessment tasks with accompanying scoring rubrics and discussion of student work samples. Classroom videos: Videos of public lessons and number talks, most based on performance assessment tasks, that have been extensively field-tested in multiple settings and refined over time. Dana Center early mathematics tasks: A series of instructional tasks, aligned with the Common Core standards, that teachers can use to instruct grades pre-K through grade 2.

Please note that not all types of resources are available at every grade. MCESCmath. 8th Grade Math. Ohio Resource Center > Home. Khan Academy. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers | PARCC. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills. CorePlanner | Common Core Standards | Free Lesson Planning Software.