Do you have any math activities planned for the first day of school? In this post are a few back to school math activity ideas and classroom resources to help students ease into the new school year.
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Editable Back to School Desk Plate |
Students get to know each other through numbers with this back to school math desk 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.
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Golden Spiral Back to School Math Pennant |
Students color the different sections of their back to school math 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.
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Back to School Picture Puzzles Escape Room |
Braking free from this math picture puzzles escape room 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.
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Back to School Picture Puzzles Escape Room |
This math picture puzzles 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.
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"Mathy" Math Bulletin Board Borders |
These math bulletin board borders add a little math to the edges of your classroom bulletin board. Wavy and straight edged borders are included in a few different styles.
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"Mathy" Math Bulletin Board Borders - straight |
Ms. Mundy sent a photo of her classroom where she hung the straight-edged borders around her math bulletin board. I love getting photos from teachers of my resources in action in your classrooms.
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My Best Work! Student Work Toppers |
Students love seeing their work displayed. These student work 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.
As students settle in for the school year, they can draw themselves as a math person in this I am a math person self portrait activity.
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Why I CAN Do Math Bulletin Board |
We are all math people, and this math bulletin board gives kids reasons to believe this about themselves.
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Math Word Walls |
My math word wall completely changed my teaching and how my students accessed our curriculum. 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.
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Math Word Walls |
There are math word walls available for financial literacy, area, volume, elementary grades 2 through 5, middle school grades 6 through 8, and high school algebra, geometry, algebra 2 and the unit circle.
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