Significant Figure Stations

Today, I desire to portion the stations I prepared for my students to purpose to employ meaning figures. This is my kickoff fourth dimension using stations where dissimilar students are doing dissimilar activities at the same time. It was neat together with exclusively chaotic!

I laid upward 5 stations for my students to operate through. I expected my students to travel able to operate through all 5 stations inwards i fifty-minute period, simply it ended upward taking 2 fifty-minute periods for my students to complete all 5 stations.

The kickoff station was a laid of looping cards. I flora these cards online on TES. I changed the font, edited the tabular array then each carte du jour would travel the exact same size, together with modified the wording of a few of the questions. My updated version tin travel flora here.

Even alongside the written instructions, my students had problem getting started alongside this station. With most groups, i time I showed them how to figure out the kickoff dyad of cards they seemed to grab on quickly.

The side yesteryear side station featured 15 cards. Each carte du jour has a let on that has anywhere from i to 5 meaning figures. Students didn't know this, simply at that spot were iii cards alongside i meaning figure, iii cards alongside 2 meaning figures, etc.

Here are the cards inwards action:

Students needed to form the cards yesteryear smallest let on of meaning figures to largest let on of meaning figures.

This was a uncomplicated station, simply it chop-chop revealed some pupil misunderstandings. You tin discovery the file for this activity here.

The side yesteryear side station features a puzzle that tin travel flora on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Students had to get together these 12 pieces into a 3 x four then that the border of each slice is touching the border of some other slice that has the exact same let on of meaning figures.

Some of my students had a actually difficult fourth dimension wrapping their heed roughly how this puzzle worked. Others raced through it.

This side yesteryear side station was i of my favorites!

Students had to write 2 truths together with a prevarication involving meaning figures using structure newspaper together with markers. Before the quiz on the side yesteryear side day, students looked at each laid of 2 truths together with a prevarication together with tried to produce upward one's heed which was the lie.

I wrote a weblog post service before that has pictures of the diverse truths together with lies they came upward with. You tin discovery that here.

My new document photographic television camera from Ipevo came inwards super handy to display each student's operate for the residuum of the flat to see.

The final station gave students employ performing arithmetics alongside meaning figures.

Somehow I managed to non stimulate got a unmarried film of my students working at this station.

Here are the 10 questions students were asked to operate through:

This station is the i my students struggled alongside the most. I had to boot the bucket on directing them dorsum to their notes over together with over together with over. The file for this activity is uploaded here.

While helping students through the stations, I continually directed students to human face at the posters I had hung on our dorsum cabinets to assistance remind us of the rules for meaning figures. I stimulate got blogged close these posters together with uploaded the files for them here.

Looking for to a greater extent than meaning figures activities? I've too posted some Significant Figures Speed Dating Cards here.