Back to School Math Activities - All About Me Math for Beginning of the Year

Math about Me activities for the beginning of the year that relate math to the real world. Students will get to know each other and their classrooms while you will get to know their math strengths, weaknesses, and attitudes with these fun back to school activities. Digital versions of all activities now included (made with Google Slides™).

Sixteen Activities Included:

- Figure Me Out Activity: Solve problems to get to know each other (Example Included)

- Reasons We Need Math Graphic Organizer: Draw and write about reasons we need math

- Your Perfect Day: Create a Circle Graph describing your perfect day (4 Versions to Differentiate, including just fractions or fraction, decimals, and percentages)

-Classroom Scavenger Hunt: Find real-life examples of geometry terms and items with certain measurements in your new classroom

- Summer Math: Explain how five things you did this summer relate to math

- Math Goals Graphic Organizer: Set two math goals for the year and the plan to reach them

- A Good Teacher / Math Teacher / Student / Problem Solver / Mathematician... Graphic Organizers: Brainstorm what makes students and teachers successful

- Find Someone Who... Math: Find classmates who meet different math criteria

- Summer Story Problems: Solve one of the two differentiated examples included and write your own

- Coordinate Grid/Plane Classroom Map: Make a map of important things in your classroom and name their coordinates (one and four quadrants)

- Hidden Messages: Decode a message using coordinates on the coordinate grid and then write your own coded message for another student to solve

- Line Plot Classroom Polls: Have students answer 10 different poll questions, display their results on line plots, and answer questions analyzing their data

- Back to School Dot Game: Reviews Math Basics and allows students to get to know each other while playing a fun logic game (2 Versions Included to Differentiate)

- Math All-Star Trading Cards: Describe your math favorites and statistics

- Your Dream Job: Describe how your future dream job relates to math

- How Much Are You Worth?: Choose words that describe you and then determine the sum of the letters using a code (3 Versions- Whole Numbers, Decimals, & Integers)

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Teachers Like You Said...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Jessica R. said, "PERFECT resource for the start to the school year! My students really enjoyed "Find Someone Who..." and "Perfect Day" so far. A great launch into the year's math learning!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Gemma C. said, "I come back to this at the start of every school year and pick something different, even with different year levels. Thank you!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Jan B. said, "There are a lot of activities here. I have just started using these and am using them on Fridays, as a fun break! Great way to get to know the students and to jump into different math concepts. Thank you for the great resource!"

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