Shapes and their attributes are the focus of this engaging, creative (but structured) note-taking math wheel!

• Students take a few notes, use visuals and color to help with memory, and complete practice problems found around the wheel.

What is a math doodle wheel?

• Visual Note-Taking: Combines colors, visuals, and doodles to help students retain concepts.
• A Comprehensive Study Tool: Use as a year-long reference, study guide, test prep, extra practice, or classroom anchor chart.
• Engaging and Interactive Resource: Students take notes and practice and on a single page for maximum engagement. Students can keep these graphic organizers in their interactive notebooks all year as a personal anchor chart/reference sheet.
• The wheels are excellent for reviewing concepts as part of your test prep.
• You can even enlarge the math wheels and use them as classroom posters or anchor charts!

Sections of the Shapes and Their Attributes Math Wheel include:

1) 2-D shapes: use this section to define 2-dimensional shapes and brainstorm shapes with students. This section also asks students to identify things the shapes have in common and includes the term ‘attributes’ to define.

2) Quadrilateral: use this section to identify the attributes of quadrilaterals

• Students can draw an example of any closed shape with 4 sides and 4 angles
• The term ‘quadrilateral’ is also along the bottom of the other sections, to help students remember that these are all quadrilaterals

3) Rectangle: use this section to discuss the attributes of rectangles

4) Square: use this section to discuss the attributes of squares

• The section also includes notes about a square being a special rectangle and a special rhombus (the rhombus note can be added after completing the rhombus section)

5) Rhombus: use this section to discuss the attributes of rhombuses

6) Parallelogram: use this section to discuss the attributes of parallelograms

• The section includes a question asking students which of the shapes listed are parallelograms

7) Trapezoid: use this section to discuss the attributes of trapezoids

• The section includes 2 questions asking if a trapezoid is a rectangle or a parallelogram

8) Practice: includes 2 shapes for students to categorize

This easy-prep shapes resource includes:

1) THREE versions of the student wheel

• Open’ for students to write notes (this version is most flexible, allowing you to phrase the notes as you’d like)
• ‘Fill-in’ notes, to help control student use of space
• Pre-filled notes for absentees or students who need pre-filled; answers to examples and practice problems are NOT on this version

⭐️EACH version comes with a patterned background and with no pattern in the background.

2) Teacher key/wheel with completed notes and examples

3) Colored sample of wheel

4) PowerPoint file with two editable templates ~ you can add text to make your own math wheels, if you’d like (for classroom use only - not commercial use).

Features of this easy-to-use shapes resource:

1) Notes sections and examples

2) Guided or independent practice: 8 problems in the pattern around the circle

3) Coloring/doodling opportunity: students can color the background pattern, as well as the headings and doodle arrows, however they like.

Coloring the background, if you use the patterned versions:

• Students aren't required to color at all during instructional time….coloring the background could be an ‘early finisher’ activity, center activity, homework, etc.
• Students don’t need to color every section of the background – part of their coloring pattern could be to leave sections white.
• Students could color sections with patterns instead of solids – maybe polka dots in one section and squiggly lines in another.
• This coloring part is just a chance to be creative, explore patterns, and enjoy the stress-relief coloring can provide.

What teachers are saying about this math wheel:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This was a great resource. It was very in depth and gave great information."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This was such a great math center for my students - I will definitely be using these as reinforcement for my math curriculum next year!"

...and other math wheels:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"These Math Doodle Wheel are interactive, engaging, and great to use with student notebooks! And I love the scaffolded versions - great to use for students with accommodations!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Taking notes used to be something challenging for my students. The resource engages ALL of my students as they all ask to color code everything. When I teach a new math skill, my students automatically ask if they can get a math doodle wheel to take notes in."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"My students absolutely love using the wheel as notes. It makes it easy for them to find the information when they need it and they can kind of doodle as a writing so they don’t get bored."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"I love these math wheels!! I love using guided notes and these are fun and easy to use. The kids really like them and actually use them and refer back to them. Totally worth the money and a time saver!"

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