Math Midway

A favorite activity in my school which combines hands-on/ cooperative learning with mathematics. A number of variations make this activity adaptable to multiple grade levels. Topics which work well with this activity are; congruence, similarity, rectangular vs square, fractional parts, and bisecting angles/angle measurements. I liked to copy a photo of the student centered on the back of a sheet before beginning. After they drew and colored their tessellation they would fold the box. The fini

Everyone makes mistakes and has a bad day. The important thing is to learn from those mistakes. I used this for over ten years in my class to train the students to look back over their papers. The students who took advantage of the policy saw their grades increase as well as their math proficiency. I saw my end of year test scores increase. It was a win-win!