Posts Categorized: Math Vocabulary

Games for Simple and Compound Interest

Games for Simple & Compound Interest Why would a student be learning how to calculate simple and compound interest? Understanding simple and compound interest can be very helpful in managing personal finances and making informed decisions about borrowing and investing. Simple interest is useful for calculating the interest on a loan or investment where the interest is only calculated on the principal amount.…

3 FREE Math Games: Multiplication, Exponents, High School Geometry

It’s January and it is TIME for AHA moments!! Make one of these games or one from our website and see what happens! To download all three of these free math games, simply join the Tabor Team (it’s FREE, too) and you’re set to go! Joining will also make sure you receive a new FREE math game every month!…

Two FREE Games to Teach Exponents

Exponents are useful, applicable, mathematical, and sometimes downright annoying! I like the way BetterExplained.Com explains it. Numbers aren’t just a count; a better viewpoint is a position on a line. This position can be negative (-1), between other numbers (sqrt(2)), or in another dimension (i).   What does 3^10 mean to you?…

2 Effective Strategies for Academic Vocabulary

The task of leadership is not to put greatness in to humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”     -John Buchanan Team Names and Freeze Words are two of my most successful strategies for incorporating vocabulary instruction into a classroom. They’re simple to use and don’t cost you a dime to implement.…

2 NEW Math Game Videos, Distributive Property & Integers

One of this week’s new Move Ahead @ Home math game videos is DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY 6TH GRADE  This game teaches the distributive property to 5th-7th graders in a hands-on, concrete way using LEGO® bricks! DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY 6TH GRADE is fun, engaging, and will move learners ahead in algebra!…

Hands On Math Games with LEGO® Bricks

Want to have fun learning math concepts? You can’t miss with these hands on math games using LEGO® Bricks! While playing this fraction race, players will be using bricks to experience a denominator and a numerator. Those same bricks will help your learner explore fractional parts and equivalent fractions.…

Math Vocabulary Game for 5th Grade Geometry

How about a fun math vocabulary game to teach elementary-level students math vocabulary words?  Math Vocabulary is SO important — and students will have fun while learning! One game that is mentioned in our new online course, Tabor Rotation TO GO, is Batter Up!  This Math Vocabualry Game grabs their interest with baseballs, bats, and hats. …

FREE GAME FRIDAY: Vocabulary Pizza Party

  Want a fun way to engage students with math vocabulary at the secondary and elementary level? Want to spice up learning the graphing of functions and geometry? Then get cookin’ with this FRIDAY’S FREE GAME Vocabulary Pizza Party Everything you need for Algebra Graphing Functions and Geometry at the 3rd grade level is in FREE MATH MATERIALS.…

FREE Math Vocabulary Game, Vocabulary French Fries

“My students knew how to solve the problem! They were just stuck on the math vocabulary words they didn’t know!”   “I never thought of using a math vocabulary game. I just introduce the words before the lesson and have them copy it in their notebooks.”…