It has always been important to me that my students knew exactly what it was that they needed to work on in all areas of the curriculum. Setting goals as mathematicians is just as important as setting goals for work in the areas of reading and writing.
Below is the chart that I created and students used to sign up for upcoming small group math lessons with me. Group topics changed as the needs of the students evolved.
My Math Carpet for daily practice in a variety of areas.
One of five of my Math Written Conversation boards.
I purchased full-size sheets of dry erase boards at Home Depot and cut them down to 3'x4' pieces. I then took Duct tape and put it around the edges.
I am so excited about my 100 square grid math carpet. I got the idea when a speaker at a math workshop that I attended over the summer spoke about it briefly. You can purchase a carpet just like this for $300.00 on the web. I didn't have $300 to purchase it so I bought a black area carpet from the Dollar Tree for $19.99... I bought 7 rolls of lime green duct tape from Michaels for $1.99 each roll!
Students love working in Math centers and this is one of their favorite centers! They are asked to do a variety of things at this center...complete algorithms, show place values, make graphs, show commutative and identity properties, create arrays and so much more.
