This polygons geometry resource for First Grade Math and Second Grade Math is a quick tool to assess children on their knowledge of types of lines as well as 2D and 3D polygons. Use these pages for assessment, math centers, buddy activities, peer tutoring, small group or homework. This Geometry Resource contains the following 3 differentiated practice pages ♥ A journal cover for students to organize into a mini booklet ♥ Identify geometry words (2 differentiated versions - one using a word bank and one multiple choice) ♥ Identify 2D polygons words (2 differentiated versions - one using a word bank and one multiple choice) ♥ Identify 3D polygons words (2 differentiated versions - one using a word bank and one multiple choice) Tricia :) Connect with Me! Count on Tricia Website Count on Tricia on Facebook Count on Tricia Pinterest Count on Tricia on Instagram ★Customer Tip★ 4 Reasons to Follow Me Followers are the 1st to hear about new products! Followers often get 50% off on the First Day! Not kidding. Followers get Freebies Followers inspire me to do more! Look for the green star next to my store logo. Click the star to become a follower! Thanks! You’re a SuperStar!★
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It was around this time of year during my first year of teaching when I got completely overwhelmed with my grading load. My main problem: I felt like I needed to grade EVERYTHING. Until speaking with other teachers about how much time I spent grading, I did not realize grading everything was unnecessary and impossible to sustain. Right then I decided to change my grading habits. My first year I was teaching English to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Since every class had two spelling homework assignments and a spelling test every week, the easiest way to reduce grading was to cut out redundant, practice assignments. My first grading change was to only grade one spelling homework assignment per week. I was still grading a ton of assignments, but just that one little change substantially reduced the time I devoted to grading. Since that first year, I have learned many more tricks to reduce grading time. Here are some of those tricks. This one is probably the most obvious: limit what you grade. Whenever possible, I limit myself to two or three assignments per week. I feel like this is enough to give students, parents, and teachers a clear and accurate picture of the students’ understanding of each topic and overall effort. I can see their understanding with each assessment grade and see their general effort levels reflected in whether or not they finish their homework completely and on time. Prioritize the most important assignments or parts of assignments. Choose what will give you the best picture of student understanding and grade that. If you have a lengthy assignment, pick only a few sections to spend time on and give a completion grade for the rest. Occasionally give completion grades. When totally swamped with teaching duties, this can save your sanity. If students complete all of an assignment, I give them 100%. If they only do half, they get 50%. I limit this to homework assignments and try not to do it too often because it doesn’t reflect student understanding. However, when I have more pressing teaching duties that will have a greater impact on my students’ learning I think this is acceptable. Have a no name policy you can handle. I used to post no name papers on the bulletin board (most remained unclaimed) and did detective work to figure out which paper belonged to which student. That took a lot of time and was not something I felt should be the teacher’s responsibility. After a couple of years of this, I decided my seventh-grade students should be responsible enough to do something as simple as writing their name on their assignment. Consequently, I communicated this to my students and made it my class policy to throw out no names. Whatever no name policy you decide to implement, make sure it works for you and doesn’t add more time and effort than it deserves. Limit late assignments. I used to take late assignments all quarter long (at a 25% grade reduction). This resulted in a deluge of assignments from students who waited until right before grades were due. It generated a ton of work for me when I needed to be wrapping things up. I had to remember how I graded each assignment, which was time consuming in and of itself. Cue a new late assignment policy: assignments are accepted no later than two weeks overdue. This policy makes it so I can still easily remember how I graded something and also keeps my grading duties at a reasonable level, even when the gradebook is almost due. Don’t let the assignments pile up. This can happen quickly and become overwhelming. Try grading in little spurts throughout the week so you never end up with more than a week’s worth of accumulated assignments. Have student helpers. Most students enjoy helping the teacher with little tasks. I often have students organize my ungraded papers so they are all neatly stacked, facing up, and paper-clipped by assignment and class period. The time saved really adds up. Let students grade their own assignments or swap papers with a classmate. This gives students quick feedback on how they are doing with a topic and where they can improve. You can discuss answers as a class and clear up problem areas as soon as they present themselves. When grading this way, I usually don’t add the grades to the gradebook because the students already know exactly how they did and it’s too easy for students to cheat. Always use a rubric when applicable. This sounds so important and obvious. But, let me tell you, there have been times when I was so overwhelmed with teaching that I didn’t have a rubric when I assigned the project. This is a huge no-no. Without a rubric, the students don’t have clear expectations. You will end up with all sorts of projects and no fair, consistent way to grade them. It becomes a time-consuming mess to grade. Trust me—always use a rubric. Design exit tickets with ease of grading in mind. Since all of my exit tickets go in the gradebook, almost all of them are short—between four and five questions long—and are mainly multiple choice. If it is important to see the depth of student understanding, I might add one question that requires students to answer in sentences. By sticking to this general format, I am able to whip through grading exit tickets. (If you teach middle school science you might be interested in my Exit Ticket Package, which contains a bunch of exit tickets designed this way.) Make peer reviewing part of projects. During big projects, take a little class time for peer reviewing. When students evaluate their classmates’ work, they learn from each other and learn to think critically. The peer review can be something as simple as providing one thing they liked about a project and one way to improve it. You could take it further by printing extra rubrics and having students grade each other that way. If you include some form of peer reviewing once or twice before students turn in their projects, you will receive higher quality work which requires less grading time from you. Implementing even just a few of these strategies will greatly reduce your grading time. Of course it’s impossible to completely eliminate grading so, if all else fails, make the time you have to spend grading as painless as possible. Use fun pens and stickers. Listen to music and light a nice smelling candle. Have a yummy snack and a special drink (or two). Wear comfy clothes and put your dog on your lap. Recruit a friend to help. What do you do to save time spent grading? How do you make grading a more pleasant experience? Comment below to share your ideas.
When children are beginning to learn how to multiply numbers, one of the first things they learn is to make a pattern with objects in an array. They count the manipulatives and notice that there is a length and a width. That they can also count all of manipulatives to find a total. From this ... Read more
I decided to have my 7th grade Pre Algebra students use anchor charts this year. I didn't think I would like them or my kids, but they absol...
One fun math idea to incorporate as a weekly routine is a Challenge of the Week problem. It is optional for students to give it a try, but...
Rock Around the Clock is an excellent probability lesson for middle school students. Great to incorporate into your probability unit.
Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.
We were playing around trying to figure out an easy way to memorize the different techniques for operations on fractions last Friday in my intermediate algebra class. Suddenly this simple pattern …
Please know that while some of this post contains content for upper elementary teachers, the information about Student Data Tracking Binders and Assessments is for grades 2 through 6. I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about implementing my Student Data Tracking Binders and my Standards Based Assessments mid-year. A lot of people are […]
It's a riddle whirwind! Hold on tight as you use math to solve this place value puzzle -- are you up to the challenge? Download to complete online or as a printable!
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I decided to have my 7th grade Pre Algebra students use anchor charts this year. I didn't think I would like them or my kids, but they absol...
You know when you are in a staff meeting and someone starts talking about something as if everyone is supposed to know about it and be implementing it? No? It's only me?! I can't be the only one! Well, last year there was talk about using Data Wise to pick a target area as a school and to implement strategies school-wide to bring up student achievement. We did a great job of narrowing down the problem of practice and writing a great goal, but nothing really went from there. This year we had some awesomesauce staff who beefed up our plan and set it into motion. Our goal was to target problem solving and implement strategies that would be the same across grade levels. Our fabulous Angie from Fall Into First created a super poster for each teacher to hang. The first strategy we are using is "choose and operation". As I was hanging the poster and thinking about a math bulletin board I was digging out my math operation posters that I had made when I first started teaching. They were cut-outs of each symbol (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and had the key words for each written on them (they were so sadly faded that they have been retired). Well, it dawned on me that hanging the posters would be meaningless if the kids had no particiation in their creation and I realized a word sort would be PERFECT for an opening activity. Well, today was our first day of math groups and I had this baby ready to go. It took the students a few minutes to work as a team to cut out all 48 key words, and then it took about 20 minutes for them to collaborate and sort. I was amazed at the language that students used to explain their reasoning for why a key word went with a certain operation. I think we're going to rock the "choose an operation" strategy! Here are some action shots (which I took late in the game because I was listening in to their super discussions). We put the key words in envelopes so that we can play again later as we review the operations. Students could easily glue these on to keep as review sheets, or it could even be their assessment. Interested in playing this with your kiddos? It's in the shop! I've included an answer key (this was super helpful to display and have students check their work) and colorful posters. Oh, and hey, did you hear...the TpT Back to School Sale is next week on August 4th and 5th! As always my store will be 20% off. Use TpT code BTS14 for an additional 10% off. The amazing Matt Sutton from Digital Divide and Conquer has been making some hilarious meme inspired sale buttons! The GoT one was the obvious choice for me.
This Worksheet Is Free To Download. Look On The Right-hand Side of The Webpage Under "Math Downloads". It will be labeled "Prime Factoriza...
Since the school year started I have LOVED using Interactive Math Notebooks in my 4th grade classroom. My students are having a great time putting them together and using them for reference, when completing their assignments. I had created worksheets to use with my interactive notebooks. These have worked great for follow-up assignments, and sometimes…
Compare your "input" number to the corresponding "output" number to find the pattern in each table and fill in the missing numbers. Download to complete online or as a printable!
Hang on, the learning is ready to start. Get ahead of the game with our 1st Grade Worksheets. These little minds are ready to mold, and you can do a great job getting them ready with English, Reading, Math and more. Print all of our...
Here is our current target. This will stay up until we have mastered addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division equations. To get everyone ready to solve equations we began by working some very simple number sentence problems like: Students were quick to tell me the answer was 4. I then asked them to explain why the answer was 4 and to be able to tell how they figured this out. Here are their answers I counted up from 5 to 9 I subtracted 9 - 5 All perfect answers. I explained that the subtraction was the best choice because not always are we able to count up easily because of fractions, decimals, or really big numbers. We then inserted a variable into a number sentence problem and students realized they had been thinking algebraically for a long time. For our 1st day working on addition equations, my main goal was getting students to show their work correctly. So I showed two examples with work shown. This is what I expect to see on their homework.
We started our geometry unit with circles. Since my fifth graders didn't have much background knowledge on circles, I created this interact...
Too many classroom icebreakers require students to take big social risks with people they barely know. Or they don't really help students get to know each other. Or they are just plain cheesy.
In this blog post we are going to cover the first 3 steps to project based learning: the entry event, the driving question, and student need-to-knows. In case you missed the first part of this blog series- “What is PBL?” you can click here to go back and read it. Before starting the project with ... Read more
I recently created Common Core math pages to encourage my students to think “Outside of the Box” when it comes to the math standards. One of the features of the math standards, that I truly appreciate, but have also found challenging are the “Standards for Mathematical Practice”. These standards require students to solve problems, reason,…
Introduce your students to the dynamic world of metric conversions with "Kangaroo Hop Metric Conversion Lessons and Games." This innovative educational tool uses a multisensory, engaging approach to teach and reinforce metric conversion skills in a way that’s both fun and memorable. Interactive Learning Features: Decimal as a Ball: In this unique method, the decimal is visualized as a ball, encouraging students to "hop" it to the left or right to perform conversions, mimicking the movement of a kangaroo. Guided Cartoon-Like Lessons: Engaging, visually appealing lessons guide students through the concepts of metric conversion in an understandable and enjoyable format. Desk Strips: Each set includes handy strips that can be placed on students’ desks, providing visual cues and quick reference guides to aid in learning. Activity and Game Materials: The publication comes complete with instructions and all necessary materials for a hands-on activity and an interactive game that consolidate learning through practical application. Benefits: Enhances Engagement: By turning lessons into games and visual stories, students are more likely to engage with and enjoy their learning experience. Supports Various Learning Styles: The multisensory approach caters to different learning preferences, helping students understand and remember the concepts more effectively. Practical and Ready-to-Use: With all materials and instructions included, educators can easily implement these lessons and activities in the classroom. "Kangaroo Hop Metric Conversion Lessons and Games" is an excellent resource for making metric conversions accessible and exciting for students, ensuring they grasp important mathematical concepts while having a great time.
In this post, I share how to create a 5E model math lesson and use it to increase student engagement. A free 5E model lesson planning guide included.
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Is it just me or is the start of this new year flying by already?? I feel like the older I get, the quicker the year goes by. We've only been back in school for about 10 days but we sure are flying by with our curriculum!! It's almost that time of year for state testing, which means all third grade classes at my school double on math. We've been doing this for the past three years I've been at this school (and they've done it years before as well) in order to get the kids ready for state testing. We cover so much material in this third quarter, it's CRAZY! In only the 10 days we've been back, we've already covered multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1 using both distributive property and standard algorithm, elapsed time, transformations, and congruent similar shapes. I must say that I am SO PROUD of my kids. They have totally got their elapsed time problems down to a T. This has always been such a difficult skill for my kiddos..we normally teach this in quarter 1. I have no idea why?? This year, I told myself that I would wait because in quarter 1 I'm torturing myself as well as my students. I waited and it has made all the difference. It is amazing at how well they grasped this concept since their mathematical minds have matured over the course of this school year. We took our assessments today and almost all of the students got MP's! Yay!! Last but not least, I wanted to share a foldable that we made to help the kids with transformations. I got my inspiration from Cierra and Shannon at Fabulous Fourth Grade. If you aren't already a subscriber to their blog you really need to head over there!! They have a ton of awesome resources..not to mention (the post that I linked) has a billion foldable ideas that are so great!! Awesome visuals ladies :) Used a brad so students can physically turn their shape Have a great rest of the week!!
Amazing Metamorphic rock! These simple hand illustrated pdf's show how Metamorphic rock is created in the Earth. Perfect for printing and display, using with my rock of the month boxes, or for a gift for your budding geologist. There are two pdf's. An activity pdf and a metamorphic rock diagram pdf.
These 6 math Youtube Channels offer high quality and engaging math videos. Use them to introduce new topics or as review before teaching the next lesson.
We often inadvertently teach misconceptions in math when we offer our students shortcuts to concepts. Here are 8 tips to avoid this happening.
