Back To School Math Teaching Resources

Math Lesson Plans for the Beginning of the School Year

On this page, you will find unique math displays and activities to use at the beginning of the school year in your classroom.

The majority of these Back To School math teaching resources are appropriate to use all year long.

On this page, you will find math display sets for shapes, key words used in word problems, and fractions.

For the area of multiplication, there are two different incentive charts that will help you to motivate and reward your students for learning their times tables.

Ice Cream Scoops
Fun Multiplication Incentive Charts

This is an ice cream shaped multiplication incentive chart that you can use to record your students' progress as they are learning their multiplication facts 1 - 10, or 1 - 12.

This unique math multiplication incentive chart grows in height as your students learn their multiplication facts.

Each student should begin with an ice cream cone displayed on a bulletin board in your classroom. As a student learns a new times table, she will place a new scoop of ice cream on top of her ice cream cone.

Consequently, your students' ice cream cone charts are growing in height as they are learning their multiplication facts.

When these ice cream multiplication charts are completed, they measure 31 inches in height and 3 inches in width.

This math multiplication incentive chart set includes the following teaching resources:

• Directions
• Black and white cone and 12 ice cream scoops
• Color cone and 12 ice cream scoops
• Horizontal 5 page bulletin board banner
  (example above)
• Vertical 3 page bulletin board banner
  (example below)
• Student award certificate for learning the multiplication facts 1 - 10
  (color and black and white printable worksheets)
• Student award certificate for learning the multiplication facts 1 - 12
  (in color and black and white printable worksheets)

This Back to School math teaching resources set includes 2 student award certificates for you to present to your students after they have mastered learning their multiplication times tables.

Multiplication Facts 1 - 12
Ice Cream Scoops Classroom Display Set

This is an ice cream shaped multiplication bulletin board display set. This Back to School math teaching resources set includes displays for the multiplication facts 1 - 12 and a 5 page bulletin board banner (see above).

There are 12 sets of multiplication ice cream cones in this classroom display set. Each set includes a cone and 12 scoops of ice cream, each on a separate sheet of paper.

There are 161 pages of printable worksheets in this set of math teaching resources.

Key Words For Solving Word Problems

Ice Cream Math Display Set For Solving Word Problems:
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division

This word problem teaching resource is a math bulletin display set that will assist your students in solving math word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

These 4 brightly colored ice cream sets will make an eye catching math word problems display in your classroom.

Each addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division key words set contains 15 different key words to use. You can choose to use all 15 ice cream scoops for each set, or you can select the ones that are referred to in your math curriculum.

The ice cream scoops are designed to stack on top of each other and each set is a different color.

• Yellow: key words for addition words problems
• Blue: key words for subraction words problems
• Green: key words for multiplication words problems
• Red: key words for division words problems

These large word problem displays will be a great visual reminder and a help to your students. Your students will be able to refer to these ice cream displays when they are solving math word problems.

15 Key Words for Addition Word Problems:

plus - sum - and - total of - in all
altogether - together - added to - combined - increased by
both - more than - additional - perimeter - extra

15 Key Words for Subtraction Word Problems:

minus - difference of - difference between - decrease by - reduce by
fewer than - less than - left - take away - how many more
how much more - remaining - change - lost - dropped

15 Key Words for Multiplication Word Problems:

times - multiply - multiplied by - of - product of
twice - doubled - tripled - area - volume -
factor of - groups of - sets of - how many times - at this rate

15 Key Words for Division Word Problems:

divided by - quotient of - ratio of - percent - average - out of
per - each - equal pieces - shared equally - distribute equally
half - split equally - divided into - cut into equal pieces

Multiplication Pizza Incentive Chart Set

Fun Pizza Incentive Charts For Learning Times Tables

Multiplication Pizza Sticker Charts:

Add pizzazz to your math program with these pizza shaped incentive charts. These pizza multiplication charts will help you to encourage your students to master learning their times tables.

These math charts will help your students multiply with pizzazz and to become enthusiastic about learning their multiplication facts!

These multiplication pizza sticker charts provide you with everything that you need to encourage your students to master learning their times tables.

You will be able to reward your students as they are learning each multiplication fact by giving them a slice of pizza to glue onto their incentive charts.

By using these unique math incentive charts, you will be providing motivation and positive reinforcement for your students to memorize their times tables.

Depending on the grade level that you teach, some teachers will require their students to learn the times tables 1 - 10, and other teachers will require their students to learn the times tables 1 - 12.

There are two sets of pizza sticker charts in this Back to School math teaching resources set. You can choose which one you want to use with your students.

• Multiplication Pizza Templates #1: 1 - 10 times tables
• Multiplication Pizza Templates #2: 1 - 12 times tables

Your students will enjoy taking their completed pizza sticker charts home with them when they have learned their times tables and sharing this achievement with their parents.

The parents of your students will appreciate the extra effort that you have put into promoting learning the times tables in a fun and rewarding way.

Multiplication Pizza Sticker Charts
What's Included?

This Back to School math teaching resources set includes the following:

• 5 Page Bulletin Board Display Banner
• Color Plain Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 10)
• Color Plain Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 12)
• Color Ingredient Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 10)
• Color Ingredient Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 12)
• Color Student Award Certificate (Facts 1 - 10)
• Color Student Award Certificate (Facts 1 - 12)
• Black and White Plain Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 10)
• Black and White Plain Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 12)
• Black and White Ingredient Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 10)
• Black and White Ingredient Pizza Template (Facts 1 - 12)
• Black and White Student Award Certificate (Facts 1 - 10)
• Black and White Student Award Certificate (Facts 1 - 12)

I personally like to use the color pizza templates, instead of having students color the black and white pizza templates themselves.

I cut out the plain color pizza templates and give one to each student and have them write their names in the box.

Below is an example of the first template, the plain pizza. Each child should be given one of these plain pizza templates.

I like to display my students' multiplication pizza charts on a bulletin board in my classroom.

Next, I laminate the plain pizza charts. By doing this, later when I take each student's multiplication pizza chart off of my bulletin board, the chart does not accidentally rip.

I also think that it looks impressive to parents to send home these colorful laminated pizza charts when they are completed.

My students enjoy displaying their finished multiplication charts in their bedrooms, or on their refrigerators, as a sign of their math achievement.

After I have laminated my students' plain multiplication pizza sticker charts, I make a bulletin board display featuring these colorful incentive charts.

Many teachers like to make classroom bulletin board displays featuring their students' incentive and sticker charts. These multiplication pizza sticker charts make a colorful bulletin board display and provide a strong visual reminder to students of the math goal that they are working towards.

I realize that not all teachers are able to print color templates for their students, so I have also included black and white pizza templates in this set.

You can have your students color their multiplication charts themselves using the black and white pizza templates.

These unique multiplication charts are a wonderful way to positively reinforce your students for learning their times tables. When my students have learned their times tables, I like to recognize this accomplishment by presenting them with a matching award certificate.

You can present this matching multiplication award to your students when they have reached their goal of learning 10 (or 12) times tables.

Your students will be excited to take home their completed multiplication charts and math awards. Their parents will be impressed with the extra effort that you have put forth into positively reinforcing your students to learn their times tables.

Below are examples of the matching student award certificates that are included in this set of Back to School math teaching resources.

Introducing Fractions Teaching Resources Set

Fraction Bar Classroom Display and Student Worksheets

This math classroom display resource includes equivalent sized fraction bars for 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, and 1/8. Each bar measures 19 inches in length when glued together.

These large fraction bars are ideal when first introducing fractions to your students. You can also use them to make a math bulletin board display about fractions.

These 7 fraction bars are glued together similar to gluing together a long bulletin board display banner.

This Back to School math teaching resources set also includes student fraction worksheets for you to use with your students when you are introducing fractions to them.

In the first worksheet (shown below), the fractions bars are lined up next to each other so that students can visually compare and see the relationships between the different fractions (1/2 = 2/4 = 3/6 = 4/8). There are also color versions of these printable worksheets for you to use included in this set of math teaching resources.

Get Into Shape:
Math Geometric Shapes Poster Set

Brighten up your classroom for the first day of school by designing a math bulletin board display containing 12 different math geometric shapes.

This set of Back to School math teaching resources includes 12 one page posters of the following geometric shapes:

circle, square, triangle, diamond, cube, cylinder, rectangle
oval, parallelogram, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon