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Editable Back to School Desk Plate Math Activity
Get to know your new students through numbers with this back to school name 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
So you have a big, blank bulletin board in your math classroom that has seen better days. Maybe the cork is falling off, or maybe it was an old chalkboard that needs a new life. Let's jump right in with a super simple idea for starting fresh and creating a colorful
background for your bulletin board-- dollar store tablecloths. The
tablecloths I found were 54-inches by 108-inches, so one will cover an
entire 4-foot x 8-foot bulletin board.
I trimmed a black tablecloth to 4-feet x 4-feet by measuring and cutting
the tablecloth while folded hotdog, then trimming off the width to 4 feet.
Because the tablecloth is so thin, it won't fall down if you secure it with
staples or even clear tape.
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.
Posters and anchor charts are great for large bulletin boards because they
fill up the space quickly and can be swapped out easily. This
"Welcome, Math Person! poster
prints on 4 pages that tape together after a little trimming. It reminds
students that we are all math people as they enter your classroom for the
first time.
When I ran out of bulletin board space, I started hanging things on our classroom walls. They were cinder block, and the only thing I found to work was blue Loctite mounting putty. If you have walls that you are not allowed to mark and that are not cinder block, one tip is to use painter's tape
and hot glue. The painter's tape goes on the wall (sticky side flat on the wall), then the hot glue goes between the painter's tape and what you're hanging.
My friend Carrie sent me
this great photo of her classroom wall space covered in her students' back to school math pennants. The pennants have different glyph questions like "name", "birthday", and "favorite color". The finished pennants made a colorful student-created bulletin board display.
Math is so closely tied to our self-esteem, and no matter how hard we study there are going to be hard days. A math bulletin board can be used to display motivational messages to students. There are so many great posters and other printables out there. This "Why I Can Do Math" bulletin board reminds students that they are strong and capable.
Students answer 10 questions about themselves that are all answered with numbers in this back to school standing name plate math activity. The questions are editable so that you can change them to best fit your students.
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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
A math word wall is another great use of math bulletin board space. In this word walls post there are math word wall ideas for 2nd grade through algebra 2.
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
In this post you'll find "2 truths and a lie" math activities, each with
error analysis questions built right in. Every activity is set up the same
way-- find the error (the "lie") on each card, then correct the error on the
student answer sheet. Students get practice identifying math errors in the
context of different math topics, and then with fixing those errors.
Here is the first card from an
integer operations "2 truths and a lie"
error analysis activity. There are 3 integer operations problems on the
card, along with 3 statements comparing the answers. Students solve the 3
problems then figure out which statement is the "lie". Students then fix the
lie on their answer sheet.
For this
slope "2 truths and a lie", students are presented with a graph, a table and a pair of coordinates,
as well as 3 statements about each representation's slope. Students need
to figure out which of the 3 statements is the lie, then correct that lie
on their answer sheet.
Students identify incorrect statements about zeros, vertex, axis of
symmetry, and/or y-intercept in this
key features of quadratic graphs "2 truths and a lie". All functions in the activity are factorable.
"2 truths and a lie" error analysis activities:
You can see all individual "2 truths and a lie" error analysis math
activities here:
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