9th Annual July Math Dollar Deals!
Editable Back to School Desk Plate Math Activity
Students answer 10 questions about themselves that are all answered with numbers, and enter their numbers on the front of their desk plate. The questions are editable, so you can change them to best fit your students.
There are 2 slits in the bottom of the name plate to cut and slide together, allowing the name plate to stand on its own.
Once everyone's desk plates are complete, students can look around the room at their classmates' numbers and see what they have in common!
More back to school posts:
Back to School Math Bulletin Board Ideas
Back to School in the Math Classroom
Back to School Pennant: A Math Glyph
Back to School Math Bulletin Board Ideas
Back to School Math Bulletin Board Ideas
The background of this "How to be a math person" math bulletin board is made from a black dollar store tablecloth. The bulletin board reads:
How to be a
MATH PERSON
1: Do math
2: Be a person
Here is a closeup of the mathy borders I used around my bulletin board. They come in a few different styles.
One idea for using your classroom bulletin board space is to hang student work. Even my juniors and seniors liked seeing their work displayed. We called this space "The Fridge" and hung work in a completely haphazard way with super strong magnets. You can download the printable letters in a few different formats here.
I have seen other teachers choose to display student work in a more orderly way on hanging clipboards or in page protectors attached to the bulletin board.
Most of my classroom bulletin board space was used to display our math word wall. During lessons if a student got stuck, I could quickly point to a reference on our word wall to get them over the hurdle. This allowed me to keep the rest of my class focused while addressing the student's question. Students also used our word wall during independent work. I wrote a blog post about the 5 ways math word walls changed my teaching here.
Printable Math Escape Rooms
"Can the digital math escape rooms be printed?"
No, they're only in Google Forms. YES!
Every digital math escape room now has a printable PDF version in its file.
TO GO: 0 -- Done. Yay!
Printable Math Bulletin Board Borders
I made a new set of printable math bulletin board borders that print onto 8.5 x 11 inch paper and come in a variety of styles.
Three borders print per page, and each is about 10 inches long. There are 7 themes included.
Each of the themes comes in a wavy version and in a straight version for easier cutting.
Themes included:
- Math symbols on plain background - wavy and straight
- Math symbols on grid background - wavy and straight
- Pi on plain background - wavy and straight
- Pi on grid background - wavy and straight
- Calculators on plain background - wavy and straight
- Calculators on grid background - wavy and straight
- Grid only - wavy and straight
You can find these new math bulletin boarders here on TPT:
Printable "Mathy" Math Bulletin Board Borders
Buy a Car Project
There are a lot of hidden costs to owning a car, costs that students may not think about when they are dreaming of driving themselves around. In this buy a car project, students learn about the costs associated with buying and owning a car so that they can be prepared when the time comes to buy their own car.
Fun Exponent Rules Activities
Are you getting ready to teach the laws of exponents and are looking for a few fun exponent rules activities? In this post I want to share the way I have taught patterns of exponents to arrive at 1, 0, negative and fraction exponents, as well as a few printable and digital exponent rules activities.
"2 Truths and a Lie" Error Analysis Math Activities
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