Saturday, October 11, 2014
Math Ladders - 4.NBT.5 (Multiplication)
Need your students to practice 4.NBT.5? Math ladders for multiplication are here! My students have spent the last two weeks solving math problems and are getting pretty good at this benchmark.
Speedy Sally - Another use for task cards!
My last post focused on having students create an answer key or check one for you. This week, I came up with a great idea for my task card sets (that can be done with ANY set of task cards).
Speedy Sally (or Speedy Sam, Too Fast Fred, Rushed Ralph, etc. - name you DON'T have in your room this year!) has already complete the task card set you want students to work on. The problem is, they - like many of our kids - rushed and made many, many mistakes. The kids work to solve each task card and then "check" Sally's work. I had my kids give her a check by problems that were right and a big, 'ole red X by problems that are wrong. Of course, problems that are wrong need to have the correct answer written beside it so she can learn from her mistake. :)
To create this, I grabbed a blank answer sheet, wrote in about half of the problems correctly. Then, I flipped through the task cards and wrote in answers that were close or had common mistakes.
Speedy Sally (or Speedy Sam, Too Fast Fred, Rushed Ralph, etc. - name you DON'T have in your room this year!) has already complete the task card set you want students to work on. The problem is, they - like many of our kids - rushed and made many, many mistakes. The kids work to solve each task card and then "check" Sally's work. I had my kids give her a check by problems that were right and a big, 'ole red X by problems that are wrong. Of course, problems that are wrong need to have the correct answer written beside it so she can learn from her mistake. :)
To create this, I grabbed a blank answer sheet, wrote in about half of the problems correctly. Then, I flipped through the task cards and wrote in answers that were close or had common mistakes.
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