Looking for Effective and Easy End of Year Math Activities? The final weeks of the school year have arrived and keeping your students engaged in learning math is no easy task. You can mix up your instruction and keep your students interested in learning math by incorporating a few awesome end of
One of my favorite things I do at the end of the year is the Favorite Number Project. This is such a great and easy project for students to do to show what they’ve learned all year long. This project can easily be changed for younger or older grades too. So much fun! Here is ... Read more
It was about this time last year I took my third graders outside for a paper airplane competition. We had spent a half hour working in te...
The end of the year doesn't have to be difficult. Try these engaging end of year math activities to keep your students engaged and learning until the end.
This water lab is a super fun way to introduce nonlinear functions in an algebra class. The math department at my school uses this lab as a way to start the school year in Algebra 2. The students love it, and by the end of the lab every student understands what it means to be an algebraic function!
Do you have at least one to two weeks left of school? Do you want your students ENGAGED in school until the end?? If you said YES, then there is a Math Game Board Project for you and your students! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD This is seriously, hands down the best way to end the school year with your students. Every year I end with the End of Year Math Game Board Project is a happy year for my students and I. I am able to pack up my room, finish grading, and I don't have to stay after school. Kids are engaged, they loved making the board games, and the rubrics make it easy for everyone to get an A (which also helped in grading)!! Creative Original Student Made Teacher Reviews "This is a fantastic resource! Thank you so much! Can't wait to use it again this year!" -Alissa "My students loved this!" -Nicole "This helped keep the kids engaged during that tough time of year!" -Lyndsay "Awesome activity! My students' creativity shined in this assignment." -Jeanna "Thank you for this resource. It is excellent. My students took advantage of it. Perfect end of the year project!" -Teacher "Students loved this. It was the perfect way to end the year on an educational but fun note." -Teacher "Students loved this." -Michelle "This was so much fun. My stents got competitive on their games and now I have some for next year!!!!" -Teacher "This activity saved me with 8th graders the last few weeks of school." -Wendy This project saved and helped many teachers finish strong and kept the students ENGAGED. I have even had past students come back to my room at the end of the year BEGGING me to play one of the board games. How cool is that? Students asking to visit your classroom and play educational games? Yes! Truly the best way to end your school year. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD I hope this End of Year Project is a HIT in your classroom too! Just remember for the end of the year it's all about keeping those students ENGAGED until the last minute. Happy Teaching!
The end of the school year is the perfect time to incorporate real world math and engaging activities. I love using projects to keep students focused the last few weeks of school. Below are some o…
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Five activities for your end of the year math class project. Each is fun for your class will help improve math skills. Resources, videos, and links are included for each one so that you can hit the ground running. The most impactful one is...
Do you want to review 5th grade math skills with your students? Do your students need an quick summative review of 5th grade math? CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD This End of Year Math Review is intended to help students understand how to answer assessment questions based on the fifth grade Common Core State Standards. Students also review key vocabulary words and assess their understanding of all fifth grade Common Core State Benchmarks. Included in the mini booklet are: -60 CCSS Math Review Questions -Teacher facilitated activity for 60-90 minutes of classroom time or Independent Activity for Students as Bell work, Classwork, or Homework to review for CCSS exam -Vocabulary Review -Student Self Assessment -NO PREP Print & GO! Mini Booklet -ALL ANSWER KEYS included CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD All 5th grade topics covered: Place Value Dividing Whole Numbers Operations with Decimals Operations with like Fractions Operations with unlike Fractions Finding Patterns in Math Graphing Measurement Geometry It's easy to keep in one place and have as an easy reference and review booklet. Your students will show mastery and be ready for the end of year test. Happy Reviewing!
End-of-the-year activities, projects, and games that will keep your students busy and engaged in upper elementary
The end of the school year is the perfect time to incorporate real world math and engaging activities. I love using projects to keep students focused the last few weeks of school. Below are some o…
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This fun, hands on math project will get your kids being creative. Have your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students plan a vacation to Orlando. Freebie included.
One way I keep students engaged is to take them outside, so here are some of my favorite activities for teaching math outdoors.
In this post you'll find no-prep digital math escape room activities that are fun for students and eliminate your need to grade! These self-checking math escape rooms are built in Google Forms with no outside links. The directions are simple -- enter a 4-letter code to advance to the next puzzle -- so students can focus all of their energy on their math. Update: Each now comes printable as well. To meet the growing need for digital resources, I have spent the last few years updating my printable math activities to also include links to digital versions, and making some digital-only math activities in Google Slides and Forms. One of the newest digital activities are digital math escape rooms. Add & subtract integers digital math escape room Digital Math Escape Rooms Teachers are using digital math escape rooms as review, as independent, partner or group classwork, as station activities, and even as concept reinforcement during summer school. They can be assigned to individual students or worked on in pairs/groups. Digital math escape rooms are also nice paper-savers when students have access to technology. Last year, every digital math escape room got a printable update. Now you can choose to assign the Google Form version or the PDF version to your students. For the printable version, students can start on any of the 5 puzzles. They record their 4-letter code on their answer sheet then check the "next step" box for which puzzle to visit next. Digital math escape rooms have been getting some great feedback from teachers and students: "I've greatly enjoyed using escape room activities with students in the past and struggled with how to implement those types of activities virtually. This activity did a great job of merging the concepts and skills of parallel & perpendicular lines with the fun and intrigue of an escape room! " - Elizabeth J. "This was SOOO much fun to use with my students. They Loved everything about the escape room! Thank you!!" - Dani B. "I like to spice up my teaching by offering my students a variety of math activities. Students are challenged with solving the math problems and they stay engaged. I time them to see who can unlock the locks first. Exciting!" - Leinani K. "I love these activities and so do my students. We both love the self-checking factor: me because it actually requires my students to trouble shoot what they are doing incorrectly and gives them some motivation to figure out the solution; them because it is a 100 if they can escape and they enjoy the process of trying to breakout." - Kristin K. This feedback made me so happy to read because it was exactly what I had hoped these digital math escape rooms would be-- engaging, easy to access for all students and timesavers for teachers. Quadratic word problems digital math escape room How do these digital math escape rooms work? Each math escape room is built in Google Forms with no outside links. Everything is housed within the Google Form. This way you never have to worry that a link will be blocked or broken. Each escape room consists of 5 puzzles. In each puzzle there are 4 questions to answer. Once students answer the 4 questions, they find their answers in the answer choices grid. This will generate a 4-letter code. Entering that code into the answer box on the Form will unlock the lock. There are 5 locks to unlock in each escape room activity. Each escape room is set with response validation, giving students the instant feedback they love and eliminating your need to grade. BROWSE DIGITAL MATH ESCAPE ROOMS Important note: You can still assign these digital escape rooms if you are not in a Google school. If your students do not have Google logins, but you do have access to your own Google Drive, you can still assign these digital math escape rooms to students. Students do not need to log into Google or even have Google accounts. As long as you can house the escape room on your own Google Drive, and Google is not blocked on student devices, you can send it to students no matter which learning platform your school uses. Directions for sending the escape room to students are within the escape room PDF file (the link to the digital escape room is also embedded within the PDF). 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I have used many of the escapes this year, and I LOVE that they cannot submit the assignment until all of the questions are answered correctly. Thank you so much for making this resource!" -Lori "I love these activities and so do my students. We both love the self-checking factor: me because it actually requires my students to trouble shoot what they are doing incorrectly and gives them some motivation to figure out the solution; them because it is a 100 if they can escape and they enjoy the process of trying to breakout." -Kristin If your students are in middle school, this digital math escape room bundle includes digital math escape rooms for integers, like terms, fractions, decimals, percents, the coordinate plane, expressions, exponents, GCF & LCM, mean, median, mode and range, area and circumference of circles, probability, angle pair relationships, ratios, slope, ordering rational numbers, 1-step equations, 1-step inequalities, 2-step equations, 2-step inequalities, unit rates, area, perimeter and volume, geometric transformations and composite figures. There are also digital math escape room bundles for algebra, geometry and upper elementary school. Angle pair relationships digital math escape room Sending the escape room to students: It's simple to send a digital math escape room to students. These directions are also inside each escape room's PDF: 1) Once the escape room is in your Google Drive, open it and click the purple "send" in the upper right corner. A popup window will appear. 2) In the popup, click the link icon, copy this link and share the link with students. This is the only link students will need to complete the activity. I hope your students enjoy the escape rooms! BROWSE ALL DIGITAL MATH ESCAPE ROOMS
Ahhh... the EOY PARCC testing is over... my SGO testing is over... all of my end-of-year paperwork is completed!! Happy May Everyone!! So, my question to you is: how do you end your school year? Are you a keep-teaching-until-the-end sorta teacher, or is projects-til-they-drop more your style? I'm the latter. I love projects! And usually, as I struggle to keep up with pacing guides and testing schedules, projects often get dropped from my plans during the school year, so I love busting out all of my most favorites during the last few weeks of school. Right now in math, we are working on this: I've used this project in my classroom for YEARS and it's always a hit! We just started it on Tuesday after our last day of PARCC testing. The kids are already loving it! Their favorite part is dreaming up their rides and giving them outlandish names! They also enjoy creating the menus for their concession stands. I had two boys spend 20 minutes today researching what foods can and cannot be deep fried!! And don't worry!! There is also math :) We started this project a bit earlier in the year than I typically do, because after we finish it, we will be starting on this: This might just be one of the coolest purchases I've ever made on Teachers Pay Teachers! I can't wait to see how it turns out!! I'm in the process of setting up two great projects in ELA, too, so stay tuned, as I'll be posting about them over the next few weeks! So, how do you end your school year? I'd love to hear from you!! Happy Teaching!!
Whether you are preparing for state testing or wrapping up the end of the year, looking at your list of standards to review might send a chill down your spine! It’s the classic problem of having a lot to do, and only a little time to do it. Luckily, there are math review activities that
STEM activities with pencils are easy to prep and implement for back to school and end of the year stem challenges. Check out three popular STEM and science activities using pencils. Free printables included!
Finish the year off on the right foot. Check out these 11 ideas and resources perfect for the end of the year in the middle school math classroom.
This is great for an end of the year activity! Students can work alone or in groups to complete. Students use real world newspapers, magazines, or pictures in order to find where math is used in real life. They will have to create a collage of their pictures. This is a great differentiation project ...
You’ve been working all year on prepping for the state test… but once it’s over, what do you do now? Whether you still have weeks or just days left of the school year, you’re going to want to keep your students engaged. Keep reading to learn about 3 end of year activities that my students
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Exploring Project Maths - Book 1 covers the Common Introductory Course for all first year students. It reflects the change in approach envisaged in Project Maths. The emphasis throughout is on understanding maths, accurate use of the language of maths and the development of problem-solving skills. The main features are: classroom activities that encourage students to discover results for themselves; a plentiful supply of worked examples; many ‘real life’ problems that make mathematics more interesting and relevant to students; background historical information that will be of interest to both students and teachers; a revision exercise and chapter summary at the end of each chapter.
The school year is winding down for me, and for my students it marks the end of their junior high experience. I have a hard time with the end of the year. I get sad
Children (and parents or caregivers!) follow this super-fun math scavenger hunt! Includes a note to parents or other caregivers in children's lives that explains the activity!
These 5 geometry projects for middle or high school are a great alternative assessment for your student. Project-based learning is so important to...
Teachers dread the end of the year tests. Their kids are ready for summer, but it’s the test that reflects the work of the teacher. When I taught 6th grade, this was especially difficult, sin…
STEM activities with pencils are easy to prep and implement for back to school and end of the year stem challenges. Check out three popular STEM and science activities using pencils. Free printables included!
This Math Project: My Magical Bakery is a level progression project-based learning resource. It incorporates a range of math skills, as well as literacy and critical thinking skills. Engage and motivate your students by allowing them to make choices and apply a variety of math skills to progress through each of the 10 levels! Easy to prep for you! Plus, it's a fun way for your kids to do math too!
This Combining Like Terms Activity Packet includes cards and a card mat that gives student a tangible way to understand simplifying expressions. Simply cut out the cards and follow the included instructions. The students will place like cards together to make simplifying the equation make sense. Great for math literacy and all things algebra, since it includes whole numbers, different variables/coefficients, and exponents. Teachers can choose between multiple activities where students are asked to group terms together and sometimes solve for x and y. Guaranteed to make learning fun! Can be used with the standard curriculum, test prep, math fluency, family night activity, Math Olympics, math stations, end-of-the-year review, and Montessori learning. This packet works well with essential unit overview that allows teachers to assess student comprehension. This game is CCSS-Aligned as it allows students to practice exponent notation, order of operations, and properties of operations. They apply the properties of operations while they generate equivalent expressions (in the bonus portion). Use as group work to get students out of their seats and fully engaged in learning.
Looking for meaningful end of the year student gifts? These inexpensive students gifts are meaningful, cheap, and has a summer reading project.
UPDATE, September 2017: This post was originally celebrating a special nearing-the-end-of-the-school-year event titled “Move with Math in May. The event featured four math-and-movement lesson…
Mathapolooza: Making Math Enjoyable for Students is all about creating a fun math experience for your students at the end of the school year (or anytime)!
