Made Four Math: Flip Chutes!

I desire to want a happy belated first birthday to Made four Math Mondays. (Yes, I realize it is right away Thursday.) Most of my Made four Math Mon submissions were non genuinely submitted on Mondays, together with thus I jurist it's plumbing equipment that I am celebrating this outset anniversary amongst a slow submission equally well.

I was outset introduced to flip chutes via Pinterest. I saw them together with thought they were cute, but I dismissed the thought equally beingness likewise uncomplicated for my high schoolhouse students. With ane yr of education experience nether my belt, I've learned that zip is likewise uncomplicated for my high schoolhouse students. They dear stickers together with cheesy awards. They savor (for the around part) cutting, glueing, coloring, together with folding. They may brand fun of the giddy math songs I possess got them psyche to, but I listen them singing them for the residuum of the year.

Earlier this summer, I attended my outset OCTM (Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Annual Summer Conference. I had a blast, together with I left feeling inspired. The outset session I attended was Making High School Math Fun, together with it did non disappoint! The session was led past times Tracy Slate. (Tracy is a Regional T3 Trainer, together with she has posted about of her resources on her website.) She showed us a lot of hands-on review activities that she did amongst her students. One of these was a flip chute.

My Finished Flip Chutes

She passed the flip chute around the room, together with nosotros all had to endeavor it out. The premise is simple. Put the flashcard inwards the top slot. The carte du jour volition travel through the chute together with acquire out through the bottom slot. The carte du jour volition province on the tabular array amongst the reply facing upward. Words cannot genuinely limited how fun this is. It's the type of affair that y'all exactly possess got to experience to understand.

Yes, y'all could exactly flip the flashcard over to get the answer. But, believe me, this agency is a whole lot to a greater extent than fun. I savor it, together with I intend my students are really going to savor it, too. I made 2 of these for my classroom, together with I hold back forwards to having these equally an selection for students to use.

I tin run into my students using these to exercise integer operations, vocabulary, important formulas, parts of an expression, etc.

Instructions together with templates are available online to do your ain flip chute. I used this handy pdf that I institute online that included everything y'all could e'er need to know. You're supposed to brand these out of empty milk or orangish juice cartons. I didn't possess got any of these cartons at my house, together with thus I ended upward improvising amongst saltine cracker boxes.

What I Started With

My dad was variety plenty to spray pigment my boxes for me. I've exclusively spray painted ane affair inwards my life, together with it turned out terribly.

After Spraypainting

Because I used a wider box than the template called for, I had to cutting about Styrofoam to gibe inwards the sides. Otherwise, the cards volition plough sideways together with acquire stuck instead of flight out the chute.

Added Styrofoam

Next, I cutting out my chute templates out of card stock together with glued them in. My mom helped me accept colored electrical record together with encompass upward where the newspaper was glued to the exterior of the box. I've seen a lot of cute pictures online where people possess got decorated theirs using patterned duct tape. I merely used what I had, together with I genuinely similar how they turned out. My school's colors are cerise together with white, together with thus they are rattling fitting. (And, I ran out of white, together with thus that's why ane also has yellowish tape...)

Front View - Finished!

Side View - Finished!