Detective Handbook Teacher Guide

Comprehensive Teacher Guide for the GCF Detectives lesson. Includes a detailed lesson timeline, discussion anchors for the video, detailed answer keys for all student activities, and a materials preparation checklist.

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Fraction Quest

A comprehensive visual math curriculum sequence focusing on fraction equivalence, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and comprehensive multi-operation mastery. Includes visual lesson slides, independent practice worksheets, small-group centers, visual tools, and robust assessments.

catherine.spurlin

Workday Payday

A practical vocational math lesson where students learn to calculate daily earnings by multiplying hours worked by hourly wages. Designed with real-world job-card contexts and supported by structured visual skip-counting.

Michelle Goode

Workday Payday Task Cards

A printable set of 8 vocational job-card task cards for student stations. Each card presents a distinct workplace scenario with clear numbers and visual guides to support independent double-digit skip-counting and wage calculations.

Michelle Goode

Cosmic Math Expedition

A 4-week math workbook and instructional sequence themed around outer space exploration, specifically designed for middle school students with disabilities (SWDs) working at an early 1st-grade level. Features embedded touch-points, base-ten icons, visual number paths, and age-appropriate space exploration visuals to teach single-digit operations, place value, and patterns.

samantha.davis

Codebreaker Multiplication

A covert-agent themed math lesson focusing on mastering the multi-digit whole number multiplication standard algorithm. Students step into the shoes of cryptography agents to learn, practice, and apply regrouping procedures.

Lenny

Workday Payday Slides

A comprehensive 7-slide presentation that introduces hourly wage calculations using real-world vocational scenarios. Designed with a retro industrial clipboard theme, featuring bold graphics, clear icons, and visual skip-counting tracks. All slide text elements are strictly 24px or larger.

Michelle Goode

Cosmic Base Ten

A 4-week intensive math intervention program set in a space exploration universe, designed for multi-grade students with disabilities in Grades 5–8. It covers additive thinking, place value, and decimal regrouping, anchored in Grades 4–6 standards with a Grade 5 core middle ground.

samantha.davis

Launchpad 6 Math Prep

A transitional math prep lesson for rising 6th graders entering the NYS math curriculum. It introduces key concepts across all major domains including Ratios & Proportions, the Number System, Expressions & Equations, Geometry, and Statistics through structured definition spaces and scaffolded example problems.

Faith Bain-Lucey

Mission Classified Keys

A teacher-facing 2-page answer key showing completed ciphers, filled vocabulary terms, and detailed grid calculations in high-contrast red ink for quick assessment of student dossiers and worksheets.

Lenny

Precision Products

A 6th-grade standard multiplication sequence designed for high-dosage tutoring. Focuses on standard algorithm alignment, regrouping, and place value holder zeros.

vierlingc

Grid Division Mastery

This lesson introduces 3-digit by 1-digit long division with remainders. It utilizes a highly structured graph-paper grid layout and visual bring-down arrows to assist students with column alignment and procedural steps.

fsaccente

Field Operative Mission Worksheet

A student-facing 2-page independent practice worksheet themed as an espionage field operations sheet. Features scaffolded grid problems, real-world agent word problems, and self-reflection metrics.

Lenny

Detective Handbook Teacher Guide