Fraction Surgery

A dynamic sequence of classroom labs and interactive challenges designed to engage middle schoolers across culinary science and competitive math.

A fast-paced, competitive math game for 5th to 8th graders designed to reinforce critical arithmetic, geometry, fraction, and algebraic skills.

A two-page student battle log worksheet for the 20-Question Math Arena Challenge, designed with dedicated scratchpad zones and option bubbles for quick pencil calculations.

A comprehensive 6th-grade math unit that applies area and perimeter formulas to real-world garden planter designs. Students sketch architectural blueprints, calculate boundaries, determine surface coverage, and solve for missing dimensions across squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, circles, and pentagons.

Hands-on kitchen lab where students learn about heat transfer, sugar chemistry, and proportions by cooking and customizing crispy brown-butter cereal treats.

A comprehensive, high-energy 20-question math trivia slide deck covering arithmetic, algebra, geometry, ratios, and percentages for middle school classrooms.

A summer-long math intervention bypassing rote memorization of multiplication to build intuitive pre-algebraic thinking using visual grids, helper facts, and balance puzzles.

A hands-on, step-by-step guided exploration of calculating the surface area of cubes and rectangular prisms using fully labeled grid nets. Students use unit squares and scaffolded formulas to calculate the area of individual faces and find the total surface area.

An engaging, teen-focused recipe card featuring a sophisticated brown-butter technique for making custom cereal treats, complete with a science-backed explanation.

A 5-day instructional sequence designed to scaffold fraction addition. Students progress from combining fractions with like denominators to finding equivalent fractions, modeling unlike denominators, drawing their own fraction bars, and solving realistic math challenges.

A functional math lesson teaching the Next-Dollar Up method through a basketball team shopping scenario. Includes differentiated worksheets with visual scaffolds to help students round prices to the next whole dollar for purchasing equipment.

A matching 2-page teacher answer key and grading guide. Contains fully solved nets, completed calculations highlighted in red grading ink, and teaching tips addressing common student misconceptions.