First Week of School in the Math Classroom


Do you have any math activities planned for the first days of school? In this post are a few activities and math classroom resources to help students ease into their routine for the new school year.


Editable Back to School Standing Desk Plate Get-to-Know-You Math Activity
Editable Back to School Desk Plate


Students get to know each other through numbers with this back to school name plate activity. Students answer 10 questions about themselves that are all answered with numbers. The questions are ell editable, so you can change them to match what you'd like to know about students at the beginning of the school year.


Golden Spiral Back to School Math Pennant Activity and Classroom Decor
Back to School Golden Spiral Math Pennant


Students color the different sections of their back to school pennants based on their answers to questions like "favorite class?" and "birth month?" When all colored in, the final pennants make colorful math classroom décor that can be displayed for back to school night.


Back to School Picture Puzzles Digital Math Escape Room Activity
Back to School Picture Puzzles Escape Room


Solving picture puzzles is a fun way for students to get to know each other while working together on the first day of school. To move to each next puzzle, students have to solve for the values of school-themes pictures and type the correct 4-letter code.


Back to School Picture Puzzles Digital Math Escape Room Activity printable PDF version
Back to School Picture Puzzles Escape Room


This escape room also comes as a printable PDF version, if students don't yet have access to their devices or you'd rather they work on paper. 


Printable "Mathy" Math Classroom Bulletin Board Borders
"Mathy" Math Bulletin Board Borders


This bulletin board border adds a little math to the edged of your classroom bulletin board. Wavy and straight edged borders are included in a few different styles.


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My Best Work! Student Work Toppers


Students love seeing their work displayed. These worksheet toppers make it easy to create a confidence-boosting bulletin board display that showcases student work for Back to School Night. There are a few different styles that fit both horizontally and vertically-orientated worksheets.


Math vocabulary word walls
Math Word Walls


Whether you teach 2nd grade or algebra 2, there's a math word wall to support students all year long. Some teachers choose to hang their entire math word wall at the start of the school year, and others because of space or personal preference, build their word wall throughout the year. The one above is part of a 7th grade math word wall.


Fall pumpkin math pennant activities
Fall Pumpkin Math Pennants


The start of the school year is definitely still summer here in Massachusetts, but soon enough we're picking apples and drinking cider. 









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