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you could differeniate this lesson by selecting easier patterns or difficult patterns depending on child's level.

I love this activity! YOu can extend this acvity by choosing different puzzles for the level the students are at. They range from easy-difficult. This would be a great activity to all grades kg-6th!

adapt this for students with special needs by having them first do this with a real coffee cup and sugar cubes to understand the concept. Also, you can click on easier levels or harder levels depending on student need.

I love this game. There is really no need to come up with new ways to extend this activity, as the students pass each level they get a little more difficult! I think kids will LOVE this activity and not even realize they are learning! This will be good for working on introducing computer skills as well. Be sure to go over how to use the mouse for younger grades and ELL and special need students.

You can adapt this lesson for ELL students by pairing with students at higher levels. Be sure you define and simplify vocabulary

There are many ways to extend this puzzle for lower or higher grades. You can change the sizes of the tubs, or even add more tubs. You can change the amount to be measured out.

you can adapt this lesson for different levels by chaniging the amount of salary depending on level....Ex: 1 cent starting with lower levels and $100 for students at higher levels.

you could extend this activity for KG or 1st grade by simplifying the worksheets and the senerios to an easier level. This would be a great way to introduce money and show real world representations.

you can adapt this activity in many ways. You could just have children build shapes with the pices or you could give them tangram mats to build specific shapes.

you can extend this lesson for 5th and 6th grade to help work on reasoning and logical thinking by setting up a 3 circle venn diagram and giving the students cards and the oponent has to guess the puzzle of which shapes belong in which circle based on their attributes.

you can adapt this lesson by using only the number cards 1-9 instead of a deck of cards and have them line up that many manuplitaves, for advanced children you could make the queen & kind "wild" cards.

you can extend this lesson for 1st or 2nd grade by paring them up into two. They lay the 5 out and one person is the "dealer" and the other person is the "guesser". The guesser gets to ask if the card is higher or lower than 5. After the dealer resonds the guesses must try to guess which number they think the dealer has. If they guess it correclty the dealer keeps the deck, and if they guess it incorrectly the dealer passes the deck on and they switch roles. This is a great activity to reviewing , or =.

you can adapt this lesson for ELL students by going over the symbols , =

you can extend this activity to KG or 1st grade by using single digit numbers 1-9 and then once they have mastered these you can use numbers 11-20. To extend this activity for older grades add additional steps by having them solve a multiplication or division problems and them comparing the answers or use fractions and compare greater than, larger than, or equivalent fractions.

this a great lesson to help students visualize place value. You could pair ELL/special need students with advanced students.

So many ways you can extend this activity to other grades. You could extend it for Kindergarten and 1st grade by using manipulatives instead of a deck of cards to introduce place value. You would want to give the 1st and second graders a ganizer mat when using manipulatives. For higher grades you could have the students pair up and then have to make two sets of numbers and add them together to make the highes number, or subtract them to make the lowest number. You could also do this activity using decimals to intoroduce the place value of decimals.

You can adapt this lesson by using smaller numbers until the concept is grasped, then you can move to larger numbers

You could extend this activity to higher grades by using higher fractions, adding or subrtacting fractions, or for younder geades by using number cards instead of a deck of cards to help them identify numbers.

This game could be used in younger grades (K and 1st) by having the students use a regular deck of cards and finding four numbers of the same kind instead of equivalent numbers. Higher advanced students could use a deck of cards with harder fractions and percentages. They could also create their own decks of cards to play with. Lower ability students could use decks of cards were they have to find two fractions and/or two percentages instead of four different equivalent numbers.

this lesson would be great for special needs students to give them visual aids used to help them relate and understand math in the real world

This activity could be extended to other grades in a variety of ways. For example, you could use it to teach place value for first grade using money, or teaching how to count change for kingergarten. Also, you could set up a class store and demonstrate positive and negative intergers pretending to "shop" for items in the classroom, this cold be a great 3rd grade activity. You could make a "grocery list" and give them a spending amount and demonstrate - or + integers!

Even though this activity is mainly for 3rd and 4th grades it can be changed to work with every grade level K-6. For older grades you could change the activity to include a wider variety of shapes/concepts. For younger students you could use basic shapes and have them create a picture with them without writing the words. This activity could be linked to writing. Students could create a picture with their shapes and then write a story about their picture. You would be connecting langauge arts with math. For ELLs put them with a native English speaker and have the ELL make the picture but have the native English speaker write the words or story for the picture.