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Students generate random addition problems with their Addition Spinners! No need for textbooks or worksheets. Students just spin the two spinners and add up the numbers. Spin 'em twice or more and create multiple-digit problems for more advanced addition. Ideas and activities on the back.

Create a fun and friendly classroom environment through positive classmate interactions. Students receive question cards with fun-to-discuss prompts. Students mix in the class, ask their classmates questions, and share their own responses. The activities are a great way to energize students, have fun, and get acquainted with their classmates. The activities transform the classroom from a group of strangers to a tight-knit classroom unit—the ideal environment for learning! Question topics include: Getting To Know You, Icebreakers, Sports, If..., and many more. You receive 20 sets of 20 question cards—400 in all. Question cards are also great for teambuilding, energizers, and brain breaks. 184 pages.

Do you have students who struggle with algebra? Do they find the problems difficult to understand, or of little real-world value? Do they find the repetitive practice boring? The problem may not be algebra. It may be the way students are learning algebra. In this book, master teacher, trainer, and celebrated math author Becky Bride will show you step-by-step, activity-by-activity, and lesson-by-lesson how she used cooperative learning structures to help her students succeed with algebra year after year. When the power of student-to-student interaction is unleashed in algebra, students enjoy learning more and the abstract algebraic concepts become more concrete and understandable. Chapters cover: working with rational numbers, expressions, equations and inequalities, linear functions and vertical lines, linear systems, polynomials, radicals, and quadratic functions. Transform struggling students into successful mathematicians with motivating teamwork activities. Book includes reproducible transparencies and activities. 464 pages

Make geometry come alive using cooperative learning! In this book, you'll receive something you won't find in any textbook—HOW to teach geometry successfully. You will find over 200 step-by-step activities to enhance geometry exploration and mastery. In the process of working together through these carefully crafted activities, your students will learn more and enjoy geometry more than you ever imagined possible! Topics covered: definitions, angles and lines, constructions, triangles, polygons and quadrilaterals, similarity, Pythagorean theorem and special right triangles, area, volume, and circles. Includes reproducible geometry worksheets and blacklines for transparencies. 440 pages

Finally. A cooperative learning book specifically for high school mathematics teachers. Includes a rich array of activities for all levels of high school mathematics. You receive half a dozen Kagan cooperative learning structures: Line-Ups, Mix Pair RallyCoach, Mix-N-Match, Inside-Outside Circle, RallyCoach, RoundTable. For each structure you receive numerous activities and blackline masters for Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus. Activities for fractions, geometry definitions, graphs, probability, algebraic expressions, word problems, slope, angle, proofs, equations, functions, parabolas, and much, much more. Nearly 300 activities in all! Your students will work together successfully with these proven cooperative structures. Working together, your students enjoy math more and learn more. 420 pages

Motivate your students to excel with teamwork. You'll be amazed at how well your students will work in teams. They'll pay attention, solve problems together, help each other out when a teammate gets stuck, and discuss pre-algebra concepts every day! Master math teacher and celebrated author Becky Bride shares her step-by-step cooperative learning activities and explorations with you. With this terrific resource, Becky takes all the prep work out of teamwork. Chapters cover: whole numbers, integers, decimals, fractions, ratios, proportion, percent, coordinate planes, data analysis, and probability. See why students overwhelmingly prefer working together than working alone. Watch your test scores soar. Book includes reproducible blacklines for transparencies and activities. 312 pages

The book that started it all—is completely revised! Why would the Kagans update a classic that has sold nearly half a million copies? The answer: So much has changed! Cooperative Learning today is different. This new book presents today's most successful cooperative learning methods. The Kagans make it easier than ever to boost engagement and achievement. You'll still find all the practical and proven Kagan Structures, including Numbered Heads Together, RoundTable, and Three-Step Interview—direct from the man who invented cooperative learning structures. And there's still plenty of ready-to-do teambuilding and classbuilding activities to make your class click. But in this expanded edition, you will find new step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods. You hear how schools have used Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community. After decades of training and working with hundreds of thousands of teachers, Kagan has refined and perfected the most widely used and respected form of cooperative learning ever. The Kagans make it easy for you to dramatically increase engagement and achievement in your class!

Spencer has done it again! He's written another must-have reference for all educators. Dr. Kagan has translated the enormous field of theory and research on emotions into a practical guide any teacher can use to make their teaching more emotion-friendly. Not only does he review the extensive research on how eliciting positive emotions boosts student achievement, Spencer provides plenty of do's and don'ts, ready-to-use student activities, and simple tips to put students in the optimal emotional states for learning. Dr. Kagan introduces us to the Emotion Wheel, a student-friendly way to help our students understand and manage their own emotions. We not only learn why EQ can be more important than IQ to students' success, Dr. Kagan provides a practical guide to developing the facets of EQ, including student self-knowledge, self-control, motivation, and empathy. And last, but definitely not least, we learn how to evoke emotion when we teach to make learning more meaningful and memorable. This book is your blueprint for creating the emotion-friendly classroom.

Each set includes ten mini felt erasers. Erasers measure 1.25" x 2.5". For use with SwitchBoards, AnswerBoards, Team Slates, or MindMats and any other dry erase board. Sold as 6 sets for 60 mini erasers total.

Set includes ten mini felt erasers. Erasers measure 1.25" x 2.5". For use with SwitchBoards, AnswerBoards, Team Slates, or MindMats

Hands down, the biggest, most powerful timer for teachers available. Mega means big. The MegaTimer measures in at a super-sized 9.5 by 6.5 inches. The jumbo LCD display with a brilliant blue backlight is so big and bright, you can read the display from the back seat of your classroom. Mega also means powerful. Powerful it is with all the standard timer features you would expect, plus many, many more. The MegaTimer's design is so unique and versatile, it is patent pending. Push the Student Selector button to randomly pick any student to share. Push the Team Selector button to randomly pick any team in the class to present. Use the Count Down timer to display how much time remains for students to complete their projects. Use the Stop Watch timer to challenge the class on how long it takes to clean up. Need dice, a spinner, or random numbers for math problems? The Random mode will generate random numbers for you. Set an Alarm to remind you and the class it's break time. Students seem a little sluggish? Press the Temperature button to check if the temperature is optimal for learning. And when you're not using the timer, display the Time and Date. Carry it around, hang it on the wall, or use the stand to place it on your desk. This is the timer you don't want to be without. Nowhere else will you find so many teaching tools packed into one digital timer. It's big. It's powerful. It's the MegaTimer! Requires 6 AA batteries, (not included).

Your students will spin their way to multiplication mastery! The Multiplication Spinners are like flashcards, only better. They're fun. They're interactive. And you won't ever run out of problems. Your students simply spin the arrows to create an endless array of multiplication problems. Great for quizzing a partner. Excellent for generating problems to build with manipulatives. Watch your students work their way up to multiple-digits problems with multiple spins.

An entire number curriculum built into a spinner! Teach your students to recognize, write, and build numbers from 0 to 9,999. Start with the Ones spinner and watch your students work their way up to the Tens, Hundreds, then Thousands. Each new spin creates a new number for students to identify, write, or build with manipulatives. When your students are ready for decimals, just place a penny between spinners and suddenly you can teach decimal place value in tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and ten thousandths! Also works great to teach rounding off. Students spin a number and round it off to the nearest 0, 10, 100, or 1000. Multi-functional and multi-fun.

Power adapter for the MegaTimer. This adapter is recommended for extended use of backlight (sold separately). Cord measures 6' long.

Power adapter for the MegaTimer. This adapter is recommended for extended use of backlight (sold separately). Cord measures 6' long. Pack of 3 power adapters.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite! This Kagan Structure turns need-to-know curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. To play, every student receives a quiz card relating to the topic. Students then pair up with a classmate. Using their cards, they quiz each other. After coaching or praising, they trade cards and set off to quiz a new classmate with their new card. The repeated practice boosts retention of the content. Memorizing important information and concepts has never been so fun! Each book is loaded with card sets on a variety of topics. Each card set includes enough ready-to-copy cards for your entire class to play. 216 pages.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite! This Kagan Structure turns need-to-know curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. To play, every student receives a quiz card relating to the topic. Students then pair up with a classmate. Using their cards, they quiz each other. After coaching or praising, they trade cards and set off to quiz a new classmate with their new card. The repeated practice boosts retention of the content. Memorizing important information and concepts has never been so fun! Each book is loaded with card sets on a variety of topics. Each card set includes enough ready-to-copy cards for your entire class to play. 192 pages.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite! Transform your mathematics curriculum into a fun, interactive quizzing game. Your students will be up, moving about the classroom, quizzing each other on essential math skills, and coaching and praising each other. Each set of cards focuses on a need-to-know math concept. Students each receive a quiz card. They pair up and quiz both ways, then trade cards and find a new partner to quiz. Each time they have a new partner and a new quiz question. Keeps everyone engaged! Great for practicing concepts, test prep, and for revisiting concepts throughout the year in a fun quizzing format. Card sets include: balancing the equation, regrouping, time, elapsed time, candy store math, snack shack math, word problems, test prep, and rounding.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite! Transform need-to-know mathematics curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. Keeps everyone engaged. Each card set includes enough cards for your entire class. Card sets include: area and perimeter, balancing, big numbers, converting fractions, interpreting remainders, equivalent fractions, factors, word problems, ordering decimals, order of operations, place value, rounding, simplifying fractions. 192 pages.

Boost interaction. Boost learning. Learning Chips will have your class humming with interaction. Each set has 16 attractive, durable plastic chips. Each team lays a set of chips question side down on their desk. One student picks a chip and reads the question. All teammates take a turn responding. The next student picks the next chip and all teammates respond. Learning Chips are a terrific way to get students interacting over the learning topic! Just place a set of chips at a team table and let the non-stop discussion begin. They run themselves as a center. Chips are also great for whole-class activities. Give each student one chip. Have them mix, pair, and ask a partner the question on their chip. They trade chips and find new partners to question.

Here are 400 ready-to-use Spanish questions covering topics in language arts, social studies, science, music, and art. Questions are organized into 25 categories such as vocabulary, historical character, current events. These reproducible question cards are the perfect way to get Spanish-speaking students to develop in-depth thinking across the curriculum. Also a great tool for advanced Spanish classes to develop speaking skills. Promote nonstop discussion with this giant collection of Spanish questions.

Quickly flip to the next Kagan Structure you'll use in your class. This flip chart serves as a terrific visual reminder of the steps of 30 Kagan Structures. You'll have these powerful teaching strategies at your fingertips. Since the structures are step-by-step, you'll be sure to implement the structures with fidelity and maximize student success. Set this self-standing reference on your desk and flip your way to more engaging teaching!

When students have the desire and ability to work together as a team, something magical happens—Together Everyone Achieves More! Students like working together, academic achievement goes up, and discipline problems become a thing of the past. Includes step-by-step instructions, hints, variations, over 100 teambuilding activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters for each of 14 favorite teambuilding structures like: Find-the-Fib, Team Interview, and Same-Different. Promote a positive class and team atmosphere in your classroom and watch as your students work together in harmony.

Teambuilding activities are a great way to build positive student interactions and pave the way to successful teamwork on academic content. Teambuilding is a snap with these ready-to-copy question cards. Each team receives their own set of question cards. Teammates ask and respond to questions they love to talk about. Question topics include: What Would You Do If..., Hobbies, Should Kids..., Getting Acquainted, and many more. There are 20 sets of 20 questions totaling 400—plenty of content for quick and easy teambuilding activities all year round. Question cards are also great for classbuilding, energizers, and brain breaks. 176 pages.

Discipline issues steal class time and divert focus from learning. Dealing with problems can be a challenge, to put it lightly. With this handy flip chart, you'll have quick access to some of the best Win-Win Discipline strategies. You'll find 25 Moment-of-Disruption discipline strategies to help you pick the right strategy right when it happens. Plus, you get 6 great Follow-Up strategies to keep student behavior on the right track. You'll want to keep this self-standing desk flip chart close by so you can quickly flip to winning solutions to discipline problems.