Think Dot Choice Board MINIa Using cubes, make a model for an odd number between 50-70. Draw a diagram using a key that represents a number less than.

Think Dot Choice Board MINIaUsing cubes, make a model for an odd number between 50-70.

Draw a diagram using a key that represents a number less than 100 and more than 50.

Write a number sentence in which the sum is greater than 50.

Using a die and blank hundred grid, record each throw by coloring in the corresponding number of boxes. After four throws write the total number of boxes colored by using

_tens_ones format.

Write a number sentence in which the difference is less than 100 but more than 50.

Pick a number greater than 20 and less than 70. Create a diagram/model to represent the number.

Think Dot Choice Board MINIbDraw a set of tally marks less than 25 and more than 10. Explain what each mark represents.

Count the boys and girls in your class.

Using pictures, numbers, and words show your answer.

If there were 6 horses in your backyard, how many legs would you see? Using pictures, numbers, and words, explain your answer.

Fill a bag with 50 identical objects. Take out three handfuls and using, pictures, numbers, and words describe the total number of objects taken from the bag.

Ask five students how many brothers and sisters they have. Create a chart to show your answer.

Write your age. Make a chart to show how old you will be 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 years from now.

Think Dot Choice Board MINIcWrite five number sentences using the greater, less than, and equal sign.

Write four number sentences without the greater, less than, or equal sign. Use shapes where the signs should go. Give it to a buddy to solve the mysterious math problems.

Play “ It’s Greater” with a buddy. Make a deck of card numbers 0-49, distribute cards evenly. Each player will show the card. The player with the greater number will say “It’s Greater”. Winner is the player with the most cards at the end of the game.

Play “ It’s Less” with a buddy. Make a deck of card numbers 50-99, distribute cards evenly. Each player will show the card. The player with the lesser number will say “It’s Less”. Winner is the player with the least cards at the end of the game.

Put 20 dominoes in a bag. Select two at a time and record the sum for each handful. Repeat until the bag is empty. Write at least five math sentences about your results using greater, less than, and equal to.

Create a story using the words greater than, less than, and equal to.

Think Dot Choice Board MINIdMake a deck of cards 0-50. Shuffle and create a number line by putting them in order.

Make a deck of cards 51-100 using tally marks. Shuffle. Select three cards at a time and put in order from least to greatest.

Put twenty coins in a bag. Pull out three at a time and put in order from least to greatest. Put coins back in bag and repeat nine more times. Record results.

Create a number line to fifty but only select half of the numbers to write. Give the number line to a buddy to complete.

Create a number line using even number words to 30.

Give the number line to a buddy to complete.

Using pictures, numbers and words, create a time line of showing what you would like to learn in the next seven days.

Think Dot Choice Board MINIePretend you are buying a cookie for 25 cents. Using pictures, numbers, and words, show how many ways you can use pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to show the amount.

Make a web to show how many ways you can create addition number sentences that equal 50 only using the numbers, 1, 5, 10, and 25.

Using pictures, numbers, and words, create a word problem using this template.

I had_cents.

I bought _ for _ cents.

I have _ left.

Using pictures, numbers, and words, create four coupons that do not total more that one dollar when added together.

Pretend you are buying a book for 75 cents. Using pictures, numbers, and words, show how many ways you can use pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters to show the amount.

If you had a dollar, write a story to describe how you would spend it/save it/ or use part of it.

Think Dot Choice Board MINIfMake a tree diagram to show different ways you can use a combination of 1, 5, 10 dollar bills to equal 20 dollars.

Put a combination of fake dollar bills (1, 5, 10 and 20) in a bag. Create a tally chart and record what you pulled out for ten tries.

Using a magazine or newspaper, cut out five items that cost 20 dollars or less. Paste on sheet and illustrate which bill you would need to buy each item and get the least amount of change back.

Pretend you have ten dollars to spend on books. Using a book order form and calculator, show the total of what you would buy, and how much you would have left.

Select two bills and create a graphic organizer that shows similarities and differences.

Pretend you were asked to design a 15 dollar bill. Using pictures, numbers,

and words, show what your bill would look like.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN2aLook at three estimation jars. Estimate your answer to the nearest ten. Put your answers in order and explain how you got your answers.

Using a hundred chart, make a set of “I Have , Who has?” cards looking for numbers to the closest ten.

Write 20 number cards from 1-99 without using a number ending in zero. Place the numbers in a bag. Pull out one number at a time and round each number to the nearest ten. Record your results.

Play with a buddy. Using a hundred number chart cover up a number with a chip and then ask your buddy to round the covered up number to the nearest ten.

Make a set of cards only using number words of multiples of ten. Shuffle and put in order.

Write a mystery number riddle for a number not ending in zero. After writing three clues about the mystery number, include a statement that asks for the number to be rounded to the nearest ten.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN2bPut one hundred paper clips in a bag. Pull out a handful. Record how many tens/ones are in your handful. Repeat nine more times.

Make a deck of cards from 11-49. Shuffle and deal the cards. Players must identify place value name of card. Players with the highest place value win each round. Players with the most cards at the end of the game win.

Put a variety of coins in a bag. Pull out two or three coins out at a time and record you answer using tens and ones. Repeat nine more times. Record results.

Using a hundred chart, make a set of “I Have , Who has?” cards identifying 2 digit numbers as _tens_ones.

Make a deck of cards from 50-99. Shuffle and deal the cards. Players must identify place value name of card. Players with the lowest place value win each round. Players with the most cards at the end of the game win.

Make a deck of cards using ten number words greater than ten and another deck with matching numerals. Play Match game.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3aUsing a hundred chart, make a set of “I Have , Who has?” cards looking for numbers ten more than.

Create a chart to show your results when using a die. Record the number you roll, one more, one less, ten more, ten less.

Write a mystery number riddle for a number. After writing three clues about the mystery number, include a statement that asks for the number to be ten more than

the number.

Make a tree diagram using a number between 30 and 50. Show one more than and ten more than. Include at least six

branches for each.

Using a hundred chart, make a set of “I Have , Who has?” cards looking for numbers ten less than.

Write a mystery number riddle for a number. After writing three clues about the mystery number, include a statement that asks for the number to be ten less

than the number.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3bMake a deck of cards counting by 5’s to 100. Shuffle and deal the cards. Players must identify place value name of card. Players with the lowest place value win each round. Players with the most cards at the end of the game win

Make a deck of cards counting by 10’s to 100. Shuffle. Pick a card. Make a card to show the multiple of ten that comes before and the multiple of ten that comes after.

Create a number line to l00 only showing the odd numbers. Write a statement about your pattern and explain if you could use your number line to count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.

Make a deck of cards counting by 5’s to 100. Shuffle. Pick a card. Make a card to show the multiple of five that comes before and the multiple of five that comes after.

Create a number line to l00 only showing the even numbers. Write a statement about your pattern.

Make a deck of cards counting by 2’s from 50-100. Shuffle and deal the cards. Players must identify place value name of card. Players with the lowest place value win each round. Players with the most cards at the end of the game win.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3cSelect a number between 11 and 19 and create a web for that number showing addition sentences that equal that number.

Select a number between 21 and 30 and create a web for that number showing addition sentences that equal that number.

Select a number between 11 and 19 and create a web for that number showing addition or subtraction sentences that equal that number.

Select a number between 40 and 50 and create a web for that number showing addition or subtraction sentences that equal that number.

Select a number between 11 and 19 and create a web for that number showing subtraction sentences that equal that number.

Make a tree diagram to show how you can compose/decompose numbers less than 10.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3dUsing pictures, numbers and words create a word problem that compares two sets of objects.

Create a T-chart/diagram to show how many gumballs I will have left if I start with twenty and take away two each day for a week. Explain.

Create a T-chart/diagram to show how many fish I will have left in my tank if I start with fifty and take away five each day for a week. Explain.

Create a T-chart/diagram to show how many pencils I will have left if I start with twelve and give one to each of my two best friends for four days. Explain.

Using a calculator and book order form create a three way chart to compare the prices of two books. Repeat at least five times.

Create a T-chart/diagram to show how much money I will have left if I start with 100 cents and take away ten cents each day for a week. Explain.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3eRoll a die. Record the number on a chart. And then record its double. Repeat at

least nine more times.

Write a letter to a kindergarten student explaining how you use “counting on”.

Make an incredible equation web to show how to use addition and subtraction facts to make ten.

Make a deck of cards from 50-100. Now put them in order that shows you know how to “count back”.

Using picture numbers and words create a comic showing how one student can count on and another can count back. You pick the number to start with and end with!

Make a T-chart showing each of coins and bills. Complete the chart by writing its corresponding double.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3fUsing pictures, numbers, and words explain the “commutative property”.

Draw fact family homes for even numbers 18 or less.

Draw fact family rockets for odd numbers 18 or less.

Set the timer for five minutes. Practice flashcard facts. Record how many cards you answered correctly. Do again if time permits.

Make an incredible equation web for 18 using addition and subtraction facts.

Make a list of ways you would teach a kindergarten student how to learn math facts.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3gMake a set of two digit number cards that end in zero to 100. Put in a bag. Pick out two cards at a time and write addition facts.

Fold a piece of paper into fourths. Write math problems for a buddy using two digit numbers. (Try to use problems that do not require regrouping so that your buddy does not need to use a calculator to complete problems.)

Using pictures, numbers, and words, write and solve a word problem using quarters.

Using a deck of cards to 20. Pull out numbers from a bag. Create a tally chart to compare how many single digits you pulled out compared to double digits.

Make a set of two digit number cards that end in zero to 100. Put in a bag. Pick out two cards at a time and write subtraction facts. (Remember the larger number goes first.)

Using a deck of cards from 20-40. Pull out numbers from a bag. Create a chart that shows 5 more/5 less.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN3hUsing pictures, numbers, and words, create a story problem in which the sum will no be more than 100.

Using pictures, numbers, and words, create a story problem in which the difference will no be more than 25.

Using blocks, create addition problems using two digit numbers and explain your results to a buddy.

Using pictures, numbers, and words, create a money word problem in which the sum will no be more than fifty cents.

Using blocks, create subtraction problems using two digit numbers and explain your results to a buddy.

Using pictures, numbers, and words, create a money word problem in which the difference will no be more than twenty-five cents.

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Think Dot Choice Board MIN4aMake a tree diagram to show how you would share ten cookies between two children.

Make a tree diagram to show how you would share 30 pennies among three friends.

If you had 100 cents how many ways could you share it with your friends. Illustrate and explain.

On a T-chart show how many leaves are on a four leaf clover. Continue the pattern for ten clovers. Explain how you would share these lucky clovers with some of your friends.

If you had 50 cents how many ways could you share it with your friends. Illustrate and explain.

Count an odd number of pennies . Can you share it equally with one friend? Two friends? Three friends? Make a chart and explain your answers.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN4bUsing a die and blank hundred grid, record each throw by coloring in the corresponding number of boxes. After four throws write the total number of boxes colored by using

_tens_ones format. Show why the number is even or odd.

Roll a die. Using a tens/ones flip chart

show the number in the ones column. Do the same for the tens so that you make a number between 11-99. Find the number on a hundred chart. Color only the even numbers.

Write a letter to a kindergartener and explain how they can tell if a number is odd or even.

Using sentence strips make a number line only writing the odd numerals. Show how you will mark the spot for the even numbers without using numerals.

Using a hundred chart make a pattern that distinguishes the even numbers from the odd numbers.

Play with a buddy. Using a deck of cards numbered 40-60, pull a card and match that number with bundles of ten straws and ones. You get one point for each odd number you pull and two points for each even number. Player with the least points wins.

Think Dot Choice Board MIN4cUsing a strip of brown, dark green, and light green paper, make a fractile tree showing, whole, half, and fourth.

Using a large brown circle, make pizza crust. Use other scraps to make your favorite kind of pizza. Cut your pizza in equal shares. Explain using pictures, numbers, and words, how you shared your pizza.

Make circles and squares. Cut and label each section. Create a fraction sentence for each.

Pretend you have a dozen cookies. Using pictures, numbers, and words, show how you would share the

cookies equally.

Make circles, squares and rectangles. Cut each shape into equal parts. Label each part. Make a pattern with your shapes.

Write an explanation why it is important to know the difference between halves, and fourths.

Think Dot Choice Board MIMIaUsing paper clips, measure five items in your desk. Make a chart to show your results and write an explanation.

Using blocks, measure the length and width of five books. Chart your results. Write about something you learned.

Using three different sizes of measuring cups, measure rice in each cup. Write about why you think measuring cups are important.

Using three different sizes of measuring spoons measure water. Using pictures, numbers, and words, write about what you learned.

Make a web using pictures, numbers and words, showing things that help you measure length, weight, and capacity.

Select five items from your school box to weigh using a balance and cubes. Chart your results. Make a statement about your findings.

Think Dot Choice Board MIMIcCreate your own measuring tool using a strip of adding machine tape. Explain how and why you created it the way you did.

Using a sentence strip, create a ruler, using NO numbers and measure five objects in your desk. Write about your results.

Work with a buddy. Each of you make a “ruled” measuring tool showing at least six segments. Compare and contrast measurement of five objects. Were they the same or different? Explain using pictures, numbers, and words.

Measure three objects, with three different measurement tools. Make a chart to show results.

Write a story about an “inchworm” and tell about things it might measure in his habitat.

You put your shoes on this morning and they don’t fit! Write about how you could find out why they don’t fit and what you would do about it!

Think Dot Choice Board MIMIbTake out four different objects from your school box. Estimate how many paperclips long each object is. Make a chart to show your results.

Play with a buddy.

Fold your paper in fourths. You will each “secretly” draw an object (i.e. pencil). Swap drawings and estimate how long your partner’s object is. Then measure with a non- standard and standard form of measurement. Record results and repeat.

Do a picture walk through a favorite book. Find five items to measure. Use both standard and non-standard units. Make a chart to list results.

Write a story about what would happen if a carpenter measured everything he made with his left foot. Would it be a standard or non-standard measurement?

Put a grab bag of items together for a buddy (and he/she will do the same for you.) Exchange bags, estimate length of each item, and then put in order of shortest to longest.

If you had to measure the perimeter of our classroom, what would you use? Using pictures, numbers, and words, explain.

Think Dot Choice Board MIM2aDraw a clock and label the parts of the clock. List reasons why we should know how to tell time.

What would happen if all of the clocks in the our school stopped? Using pictures, numbers, and words, explain your answer.

Buddy Time! You both have a clock. Make a deck of cards with time phrases (1 pm, 2 pm etc-12 pm). Shuffle. The first player picks a card and shows the time to the nearest hour and the buddy has to show the nearest half hour that comes after the card shown. When all of the cards are gone, shuffle and trade roles.

Using pictures, numbers, and words, make a time chart using hours and half hours to explain a day in our classroom.

Make a word map for the word “minute”. Define it in your own words, tell why it is special, list examples and non-examples.

Visit the media center/Internet and list different tools people have used/use to keep track of time.

Think Dot Choice Board MIM2bMake a flip book for the days of the week. Include abbreviations and what you do on each of the days.

Survey ten friends and make a tally chart to show when they have a birthday.

Make a chart to show how many days each month has. Write a statement about what you found out.

Visit www.starfall.com and do calendar activity for the day. Write about what you learned.

Go to the library and check out a book that has to do with a particular day or the use of a calendar. Make a sequence flip book to share the special events in the story.

Write down the steps you would take to teach someone how to use a calendar.

Think Dot Choice Board MIM2cDivide a paper in fourths and illustrate four things you do when you are getting ready for school in the morning. Cut paper into four sections. and put the events in order to explain what takes you the shortest time to do to what takes the longest time to do.

Write a riddle about an event using the words, before/after.

Write a riddle comparing the time it takes to do two tasks. Use the words shorter/longer.

Illustrate five tasks (one on each index card) you have done today. Shuffle them up and put them in before/after order.

Write the directions to your favorite game. Be sure to put the directions in order. Read them to a buddy.

Use a minute timer. Record how many flash cards your buddy can answer in one minute, two minutes, and three minutes. Make a T-chart to show your results. Repeat with your buddy recording your results.

Think Dot Choice Board MIGIaBuild, draw, name, and describe a triangle.

Build, draw, name, and describe a rectangle.

Build, draw, name, and describe a pentagon.

Build, draw, name, and describe a hexagon.

Make a word map for the word “rectangle”. Define it in your own words, tell why it is special, list examples and non-examples.

Make a compare and contrast chart for the characteristics of a hexagon and triangle.

Think Dot Choice Board MIGIbBuild, draw, name, and describe a cylinder.

Build, draw, name, and describe a cone.

Build, draw, name, and describe a rectangular prism.

Make a word map for the word “cylinder”. Define it in your own words, tell why it is special, list examples and non-examples

Make a compare and contrast chart for the characteristics of a cone and cylinder.

Make a diagram for two dimensional figures and another one for three dimensional figures.

Think Dot Choice Board MIGIcCreate a picture using 2-D shapes (squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.)

Fold a piece of drawing paper and cut out a medium sized circle. Open up the folded paper and create a picture using the circle.

Fold a piece of drawing paper and cut out a large rectangle. Open up the folded paper and create a picture using the rectangle.

Create a picture using 3-D shapes

(Cylinders, cones, rectangular prisms.)

Look in magazines for pictures of 2D and 3D objects. Make a tally chart to record your findings. Stop when you have found five of either. Which did you find more of first? Explain.

Find a 3D shape in the class. Write a riddle about it. Share it with the class. Make a tally chart to record how many students guessed the correct object.

Think Dot Choice Board MIG2Pick four 2D geometric shapes and make a three way chart to compare number of sides and number of corners.

Pick four 3D geometric shapes and make a three way chart to compare number of sides and corners.

Using pattern blocks create a pattern for five blocks. Illustrate the pattern and extend it twice in your illustration.

Make a web naming, illustrating, and showing examples of different sizes of 2D objects.

Using pattern blocks create a pattern for seven blocks. Illustrate the pattern and extend it twice in your illustration.

Buddy Time! Put 3D shapes in a bag. Describe the object you want the buddy to pull out without naming it.

Think Dot Choice Board MIG3Make a flip book illustrating and writing a sentence with the words, near, far, below, and above.

Write the directions on how to get to the gym from our classroom. Be sure to include the words left and right in your directions.

Make a flip book. Illustrate and write a sentence for these words: up, down, behind, in front of, and next to.

Make a set of direction word/picture cards. Shuffle. Play match game by finding the card that describes the opposite direction

(i.e. near and far)

Put direction cards in a bag. Pull out one card at time and have your buddy guess the word as you act it out (without talking).

Write a story about an animal/person trying to get to a special place for a special time, using as many direction words as you can.

Think Dot Choice Board MIDIa & bAsk ten friends about their favorite food to eat in the lunchroom. Create a tally chart to record your results.

Make a graph to show the number of letters that are in five of your friend’s first names.

Make a picture graph to show how many boys and girls we have in our class.

Open a book. Make a tally chart showing how many 2 letter, 3 letter, and 4 letter words are on one page.

Close your eyes and pick out 25 cubes. Sort and graph your

results. Write a statement about your findings.

Pick out a handful of coins from your coin manipulatives. Sort and graph results. Write a statement about your

findings.

Think Dot Choice Board MIPIaUsing,

pictures, numbers, and words, describe how many mittens and scarves needed for five children?

If five children were in line, how many shoes would you see? Explain using pictures, numbers, and words.

Using,

pictures, numbers, and words, describe how many horseshoes I need for seven horses?

Using pictures, numbers and words, explain how many ways I could have fifteen cents in my pocket.

Using,

pictures, numbers, and words, how many wheels are on three bikes and four red wagons?

Using pictures, numbers and words, explain how many ways I could have fifty cents in my pocket.

Think Dot Choice Board MIPIb,c & dMake a deck of cards from 10-20. Pull two cards and write and illustrate an addition word problem using

those numbers.

Using a deck of cards with numbers 1-20, pull two numbers and write a math sentence using the correct signs to complete the sentence. Repeat until all cards are used.

Using a deck of cards 20-50, pull out two numbers. Using a calculator, add the two digit numbers and record the number sentence and sum.

Using a deck of cards 20-50, pull out two numbers. Using a calculator, subtract the two digit numbers and record the number sentence and difference.

Make a deck of cards from 10-20. Pull two cards and write and illustrate a subtraction word problem using those numbers.

Using pictures, numbers, and words explain how you know when to add/subtract in your head, when you need to use paper and pencil and when you need to use a calculator.