I was recently working with a student to help them remember shape words (quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, etc). When we got to “octagon,” we somehow came up with this drawing and it seemed to really click with him. So I snapped a (rather lame) picture of our drawing in hopes that this idea might also help another student out there somewhere.
How do you help your students remember these shape names?
Here are more of my hundreds chart puzzles in my Number Ninja Series. Each puzzle presents sections of the hundreds chart and requires them to fill in each section. This will help kids become more familiar with the hundreds chart, thus increasing their number sense and ability to recognize patterns within it.
Click here for the free printable puzzles:
Number ninja 4 KEY Number ninja 4
Number ninja 5 KEY Number ninja 5
Number ninja 6 KEY Number ninja 6
I’ve put together some puzzles to help kids become more familiar with the hundreds chart. I want my kids to be so familiar with the hundreds chart that they can make one by themselves on scratch paper during a test, and can also identify patterns in our base-10 number system. I’ve made a series of puzzles that increase in difficulty.
Click here for the first 3 levels:
Number ninja 1
Number ninja 2
Number ninja 3
Check out this cool math website: http://www.math-aids.com/
“This is a great math website for generating a math worksheet on just about any math topic. You can customize it to be easy or hard, to say how many problems, etc.”
(Submitted by a 2nd grade teacher)
Know of a cool website you’d like to share? Let me know!
As standardized testing draws near, it’s time to review! I made this blank clock worksheet so I can draw in the hands to review whole hours, half hours, to the minute, etc. depending on the grade I’m teaching. When making materials, I try to make them transferable between grades when possible. I’ve made 2 whole sheet pages and a half-sheet.
Click here for the free, printable PDFs:
Bubble Time – Blank
Bubble Time 2 – Blank
Crazy clocks – Blank
If you’ve never heard of BrainPop, you’re missing out! It’s a cool internet resource with games, review videos and other stuff for kids. There’s a paid membership available, but you can find tons of stuff for free without it. There are many free, animated movies (available for all content areas) that seem to appeal to kids. many of the review videos include a cute story line and dialogue between Tim and his robot friend, Moby. Click here to view all the free BrainPop stuff.
The following worksheet will help kids review their understanding of numbers by coloring in ten frames to represent numbers (20 or less). This page would be fitting for kindergartners or struggling first graders.
Click here for the free printable PDF: Ten Frames – Bunny
I absolutely loved this idea! It might work better with upper grades, since I don’t think younger kids have had enough exposure to memes to get as much out of this activity. This post from Mrs. Orman’s classroom talks about five ways to use memes in the classroom. Here are the five ideas:
Even if you don’t think using memes in your classroom will work well, her examples are HILARIOUS and totally worth the read!
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