Back on the Blogging Block

Okay…..so I know It’s been a while since I actually did some blogging. Sorry about that. But I’m back now to share a little of what we’ve been doing.

This year I have some really great mathematicians, and they are surprising me everyday with their thinking!!! Some days I end Math Morning Meeting literally blown away by some of their problem solving abilities.

I was trying to come up with a way to keep math problem solving abilities front and center, sort of like a spiral review without all the worksheets. I wanted something I could leave up all month long and something that covered lots of skills within a domain. So here’s what I came up with.

I am currently testing it out in my classroom, and my students are having fun completing one activity each day. I made 26 cards, a-z. This allows me to keep them up for the entire month. After they complete their daily story problem they can complete one card of their choice. Here are some examples.  

        

In order to help them keep up with which cards they’ve completed I simply stapled a cover to half sheets of white copy paper. After I gave each student their books I instructed them to fold the white pages in half, that way they could complete two cards per page, front and back. I also made them an insert so they could color in the letter of each card they completed.

       

So far they are loving it, and I get to see each of their individual thinking on paper. On all of the cards they have to show their thinking. I am working on an April one that I hope to upload to TpT.

So there you have it. How do you structure spiral reviews in your classroom?

Have a great  rest of the weekend!