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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 24 task cards designed to give students practice at writing ratios to match a picture. Some cards ask for a quantity to be compared to another partial quantity and others compare to the whole set. I made these to use with 5th grade students who need practice in ordering the numbers correctly in a ratio, and in locating equivalent ratios to match a situation. Ratios are written in 3 different formats (x:y, x to y, and as a fraction) and some are presented in simplest form. Som

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 set of 20 task cards that I made to use with my fifth graders to practice calculating elapsed time when presented with 2 clocks. The clocks are all set on :00, :15, :30, or :45 and focus on differences that are less than 5 hours apart. All of the cards use a standard clock (not analog) to get the extra practice reading a clock to the nearest 15-minute interval. My students mainly needed practice calculating elapsed time when the times presented were not starting exactly on the :00,

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