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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 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

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 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 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

These task cards were designed to help student visualize the cubes when finding the volume of rectangular prisms with two fractional dimensions. I made these as a follow-up to another set of task cards (available in my store) that were the beginning level for this same standard. This is a set of 28 task cards that show all of the cubes (whole and fractional) in each prism, including the edge where the two fractional dimensions overlap. I made these to use with my above level fifth grade student

This is a double set of 28 task cards designed to help students find the volume of a rectangular prism with a fractional dimension. The two sets of cards are identical except for the orientation of the prism. In the easier set, the fractional face is entirely visible on all cards. In the more challenging set, the fractional face is partially hidden. These cards were made for beginners and each prism has only one dimension that includes a fraction. Each one can be solved by counting the piece