FREE Area Dominoes - Review in my Classroom

Year 9s are currently working on area, area of composite shapes, volume and capacity.

Since one of my year 9 classes require more support and engaging activities, I decided to use my FREEBIE Area of Square, Rectangle and Triangle Dominoes to review how to calculate the area of basic shapes that should have been covered in year 6 (covered, just forgotten)!

I differentiated this activity by making students show their calculations/ working out! :)

They LOVED working through this activity where they could work in a small group, share the 'working out' responsibility and collaborate to solve the problem!

It is always amazing to hear so much math-related discussion/ arguments happening in class!

 

You can download this FREEBIE Area of Square, Rectangles & Triangles here at my TpT Store!

Finally finished NEW Data Unit 20% OFF!

This unit has taken a lot of time to put together and I'm so pleased I'll have it ready for the new school year! :) So far I am teaching year 8 and 9's with 11 and 12 PVM, but if I get my Day 8 transfer, I will be teaching year 7's!
Awesomely this data unit will be able to be used with any of these year levels/ classes!
This Data Unit is 20% off on in TpT Store and I will upload it very soon to TeachersNotebook!

It includes:

• 16 word walls with 8 blanks, 6 domino mean, median, mode & range math centres over 2 levels
• 8 Math Centre A4 page Worksheets
• 1 x Math Game with three different game boards to choose from with 132 cards (33 mean, 33 median, 33 mode, 33 range.

In Australia, we're all getting ready to go back to school in the next two weeks! TWO WEEKS!

WHERE did those HOLIDAYS go!?

They allllwayyysss FLLLLYYYYYYYYYY by, but I guess that means we've enjoyed the holidays to make them fly! :)

Our school voted on the student free days to be Wednesday, Thursday & Friday from 9am-4pm, so we're back in 11 days!

The kids don't come back until Tuesday 29th January because Monday is Australia Day's public holiday in lieu of because the public holiday is on the Saturday!

Between now and then we have a roof of a Gazebo to build, finish renovating downstairs, make a new FREEBIE and prepare for the new school year!

Any FREEBIE ideas!? :) 

NEW Rounding Math Center - 20% Off!

Hoooollllyyy busy = Understatement....... I have to say that finally year 12  rankings and verification are now COMPLETE! :) I'm very pleased to say that I have 5 out of my 23 students on a VHA this year! Now just year 8 and 9 assessment to go plus reports due in 2 weeks! 

The Two-digit Rounding Winter Math Centre is super easy and ready to use! All activities have instructions and three have recording sheets. 

This unit contains:

• 48 Flash Cards
• 2 sets of Rounding Dominoes (Instructions included)
• Dice Rounding (Instructions and Recording Sheet included)
• Spinner Rounding (Instructions and Recording Sheet included)
• 2 Rounding Worksheets (Instructions and Recording Sheet included)

I have a lot of other Rounding Items on TpT here!

I look forward to the following 4, well 3 weeks with my classes! Our final week is an 'alternative week' where we do 'engaging and interesting literacy and numeracy' activities! Needless to say the number of students who attend it less than 20% of year 8 and 9s!  :( 

Fraction, Decimal & Percentage Dominos in USE!

I took a lot of photos towards the end of last term and I completely forgot to upload them! Here are my year 8s using my Halloween Percentage and Fraction & Fraction and Decimal Dominoes. I just love how creative they became when arranging them! They were competing with each other for the most confusing maze :)

It was so lovely to see some of my lower level students being able to use their calculators to divide the fractions and get the decimal or percentage answer and see the relationships between them as they progressed through the cards! It was adorable to see one of my highest level year 8 students ask me to remind him how you convert between fractions and percentages (4/20 the specific question)! After one example, needless to say he was extremely embarrassed and laughed it off! :)

It reminds me how necessary continual revision of concepts are throughout the entire year and how easy it is to focus only on the set curriculum which benefits students at the time, but not in the long run.

New FALL Items!

I didn't realize until I linked up with the Happy Fall, Y'All Linky over at 2nd Grade Pad how many Fall resources I had actually created! I have 20% off most of my Fall items for another few days!
Go on over and check out 2nd Grade Pad for lots and lots of Fall Activities!

Fractions in Fall - Addition Cards with Board Game

Fall Fraction Dominoes

Halloween Decimal Rounding #2 - Rotation Cards

Fall Decimal Rounding #3 - Rotation Cards

 

Freebies, Sales, Holidays

I often wonder where the last 30 weeks of the school year went, and how on earth we only have 10 weeks left when we return from holidays! Today we began our two week Spring break! :)

First day of school holidays, and I'm already planning next terms resources and rotation activities. Here is a Rounding Domino FREEBIE for you all to enjoy! *Free until the 24th September!*

I'm also holding a 24-hour flash sale to celebrate both 40 sales on TpT, 50 followers on TpT and 50 followers on my Blog! :) Check out my blog for a range of items 10% off!

Seal KISS & 5 days left...

Talk about exhausted! There are 5 school days left of this term and after completing 124 different report cards for Maths this weekend, Max's (step-son) swimming club night, Saturday squad & Little Athletics, I've finished it off with my husband and Max at Underwater World. I even managed a seal kiss - It was amazing. The 1.5 hour drive each way was completely worth it :)



My Seal Kiss



I've blogged before about how I've organised my Math Center and I must say it has been working extremely well. Both my year 8 classes have an A3 laminated page with all the current Math Center activities listed at the top of the columns. My activities that contain two or more levels, I have split then into different activity levels as you can see on my chart.

Even my year 8's (12-14 year olds) love coming to show me their working out, solutions and their honesty when they mark their work and have made an error in their calculations. I have had some time to take a photo and the below picture shows my year 8's beginning to play my Pirate Percentage & Fraction Dominoes game.



Pirate Percentage & Fraction Dominoes

It's so great to see them working together to solve Mathematics problems and having Mathematical arguments as to who is right and who is wrong, then calling me over to "end" it!



I always wonder what other type of theme parks like UnderwaterWorld there are around the world!? Is that what they are called still - a theme park even if it's animals!?

New Math Area FREEBIE!

Another 12 hours to go until my flash 36 hour 15% off sale is over! Because of the wonderful response I've had on here and TpT I've created a new FREEBIE! :)

The freebie, Aussie Area Dominoes - Square, Rectangle & Triangle meets CCSS 3.MD.8 - 4.MD.3 - 5.MD.3,4,5 or if you're in Australia, they suit ACARA year 7, 8 and learning support year 9.

They are perfect for Math centers and are played like a normal game of dominoes.

Set 1 - Rectangle - 27 Area Cards
Set 2 - Square - 18 Area Cards
Set 3 - Triangle - 27 Area Cards

The dominoes are in order so that if printed, the go in the order that appears; so aswers are included with the activity.