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This is a set of 24 task cards (and recording sheet and answer key) designed to give kids practice identifying transformations (changes in shape position). I made these to use with fifth graders (on and above level) to give them practice identifying flips, slides and turns using the more sophisticated language that our district requires at this level. I find this skill a bit tricky to cover, since some shapes do not visibly change when rotated or reflected, and so I chose very specific shapes

This is a set of 32 task cards designed for beginning protractor practice. All of the angles fall on multiples of ten, although they do face to the right and to the left. These cards were designed for students just learning to read the protractor. They would be best for students who need to learn how to select the proper scale based on whether the angle is right or left facing, and acute or obtuse (or right). The file is a 10-page PDF that includes 8 pages of task cards (4 per page), a studen

This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give students practice finding the surface area of a 3 dimensional shape. It includes rectangular prisms, cubes, cylinders, square pyramids, and triangular pyramids. Eight of the 24 of the shapes (rectangular prisms and cubes only) are shown in 3D form. The remaining 16 shapes are shown as nets. Students need to be able to find the area of squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles in order to be successful. I have these listed as applicable to both

This is a bundle of 40 task cards (2 sets of 20 cards each) that I created to use with my students as they learn ratio and proportion in the context of scale drawings. Twelve of the cards in each set have a shape and students are given the scale. They must measure the shape with a ruler (cm or inch) and then calculate the actual size. The final eight cards give the shape and tell the students the actual size of the object. They must work backwards to find the scale (1 cm = n). The measurem

This is a set of 20 task cards designed to give students practice with complementary and supplementary angles. Students do not need to be able to use protractors in order to use these cards, instead they must use reasoning (or addition) to find the angle pairs or the measurement of missing angles. All necessary angles are labeled with their measurements. I made these to use with above level fifth grade math students. For some reason, this skill seems to cause kids trouble and I've been trying

This is a set of 16 task cards that present two similar rectangles with some sides labeled. Students must use proportional reasoning to find the missing length. All sides are labeled in whole number units and can be solved with mental math. Shapes on the first cards are presented in similar orientation and on later cards are rotated. Students must find both missing sides on the enlarged shape and missing sides on the smaller shape using their knowledge of corresponding sides. This is an 8-pa

This is a set of 16 task cards that involve problem solving with area and perimeter. All of the shapes involved are either rectangles or squares, but the problems involve moving back and forth from known information about area to finding perimeter, or vice versa. (For example, students are given perimeter and some clue to find the dimensions, but must use that information to then calculate area.) I find that my students often mix up area and perimeter, despite the many methods I've used to in

This is a set of 20 beginner task cards designed to give kids practice finding the volume of rectangular prisms/cubes using the formula L x W x H. All of the dimensions are labeled in whole numbers. There are several cards at the end of the set that give the total volume and require kids to find the missing dimension. I created these for use with fifth grade students. They were designed to use whole numbers that are fairly easy to calculate mentally or with minor calculations. They align with

This is a set of 20 task cards that I created to use with my students as they learn ratio and proportion. Twelve of the cards have a shape and students are given the scale. They must measure the shape with a ruler (cm or inch) and then calculate the actual size. The final eight cards give the shape and tell the students the actual size of the object. They must work backwards to find the scale (1 cm = n). The measurements fall either on the whole inch/cm or the half inch/cm, and the cards ra

I made these cards to help students practice multiplying a whole number by a mixed number using the area model. Working with my students this past year, I realized that they were struggling not just with the number manipulation, but with "seeing" the dimensions of each quadrilateral. Students were not correctly able to identify the length and width and frequently put the fractional part with the wrong dimension, resulting in incorrect products. I decided to create 2 levels of cards. The models

This is a set of 20 task cards designed to give students practice calculating the volume of rectangular prisms with 1 or more fractional edge units. I chose edge lengths that could be calculated without a calculator, particular if the students think carefully about which numbers are compatible and multiply in that order. These are just practice with the shapes, not embedded in a real-life situation. I did add a few challenge problems in for the later cards that involve kids finding a missing d

This is a set of 32 task cards designed to give students practice reading a protractor. I made these to use with my above-level fifth grade math students who were having a specific problem reading the protractor. Whenever the angle fell exactly between two numbers they were unable to determine the angle. Kids were often writing 45 degrees for a 55-degree angle. They could not tell which side of the decade marker the ray fell on. I created a set of cards that primarily include these type of

This is a DOUBLE set of brand new task cards designed to support the core 7.G.B.5 standard in which students use their knowledge of interior, adjacent, complementary and supplementary angles to find the measurement of unknown angles. I designed these cards to use with student who had practice solving problems involving parallel lines and angle problem solving. I wanted to take them a step farther and apply their knowledge of interior angles within polygons. They are meant to require reasoning,

This is a set of 16 task cards that require students to add fractions and decimals to find the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. Many of the shapes have unlabeled sides and require the students to use problem solving skills to find the missing dimensions. The cards that include fractions are all like denominators, but many involve simplifying or regrouping. The cards that use metric measurements include some that are labeled with decimals. I designed these cards for use with above

This is a bundle of two of my products, both the beginner and intermediate task cards designed to help students find the volume of a rectangular prism with fractional dimensions. The beginner set consists of a double set of 28 task cards (56 total) that have students finding dimensions of rectangular prisms, and then calculating the volume when one dimension is a fractional value. The double sets are identical prisms, but oriented differently so that the fractional side is not always visible i

This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give students practice calculating the area of a circle. Each card contains a diagram of a circle with either the diameter or the radius labeled. Each question is multiple choice. These were created for above-level fifth grade math students who have just learned how to use pi (3.14) times the radius squared to find the area. I use them for small groups of students in my class while I work with other groups of kids. I typically run off multiple set

This is a set of 20 task cards that I created to use with my students as they learn how to apply proportional reasoning skills. This is SET TWO, which uses the same shapes as SET ONE (separate listing), but the scales are different. I realizes after using Set One that many of my students were having trouble with halves (either in the measured distance or in the scale). Some of the kids were just tacking on the half after they got an answer and not realizing that the half had to scale, also. I

This is a set of 24 task cards designed to give kids practice calculating the circumference of a circle using 3.14/pi. The picture of each circle is shown, with either the diameter or the radius labeled. These cards were designed for above level fifth graders who are just learning how to find the circumference of a circle. I made the cards primarily to give kids practice paying attention to whether they are given the radius or the diameter, before they calculate the circumference. (In each

This is a set of 16 task cards (with a recording sheet and answer key) that are designed to give kids practice calculating the area of shapes with no grid, but with necessary sides labeled. I used these cards with my above-level fifth grade math class as they were first learning the difference in finding the area of a square/rectangle vs. a triangle. I find that they consistently forget to divide by two when they are presented with a triangle. These gave them good practice with triangles th

This is a set of 20 task cards that include polygons grouped together to create composite figures. The figures include both easily recognizable shapes, to ones that require counting the sides (irregular hexagons, octagons, pentagons). An answer sheet and a recording sheet are included. I created these to address a specific problem my fifth grade students were having in determining whether to include interior lines, and how to count sides when two shapes end up forming one long side. This fil