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Star Wars Paper Airplane Comparison

We love Star Wars and it is good for motivating a lot of learning around here.  And since they are very active, activities that involve moving around are typically best. We love incorporating fun themes, like Star Wars, into our school day. Adding in Star Wars science is a great way to expand upon themes…

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Multiplication BINGO

Memorizing math facts is a big deal in our house right now.  It seems like everyone is working on something different.  So we are using a lot of different methods for memorizing these facts – mostly games.  They love playing the games the first few times, but then tire of them.  So we are playing…

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Shamrock Multiplication War

This is a game that Baloo and I play fairly regularly.  Just for 5-10 minutes at a time as it gets tiring, but it’s great practice.  And it’s fun!  And it’s easy to switch it to addition war, if necessary.  Or even subtraction war – whoever gets the lowest number wins.  Whatever math skill you…

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Free Fractions Pack

So Baloo recently started fractions, among other mathematical concepts.  It seems like there’s just been an explosion of new concepts lately.  Anyway, I immediately noticed there is a severe lack of colorful and fun fraction practice.  You can only cut a pizza into so many fractions!  So naturally I had to put something together. What’s…

Star Wars Multiplication Printables for Hands on Math
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Star Wars Multiplication Printables for Hands on Math

Baloo is back in a Star War phase and has told me he would do extra multiplication work if it was Star Wars themed.  Naturally, I jumped on that opportunity!!  I knew a Star Wars Multiplication pack would get him invested in working on his multiplication skills!  Multiplication isn’t necessarily that difficult but practice multiplication…