It's About Time, Teachers!: IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for SPIRALED CURRICULA in MATH

As I described in my previous post, I am a strong proponent of Bruner's Spiraled Curricula. The beauty of this practice is that prior learning is activated, the complexity of the learning is increased, and new learning occurs in direct relationship to the older information.

One of the chief means I use to spiral and revisit learning is learning centers. When students can independently complete hands-on, multisensory activities, they will be well on their way to mastery.

However, creating and instituting learning centers is time consuming. Since my focus is It's About Time, Teachers!, I've taken the time to create scores of learning centers for you. Thus, you may be interested in these bundles that can save your time:

Computation needs practice over time. But, an endless stream of worksheets is boring. Give your learners fun practice with COMPUTATION RIDDLES TASK CARDS. Each product requires the solutions to basic computation problems in order to solve the riddles. These units can be used in the traditional task card manner, as math journal prompts, or you can post the cards around the room. This allows children to traverse the space as they complete Riddles Around the Room.

Take a peek at the bundle:

You can provide frequent and enduring practice with these 8 TANGRAM units. Learners will practice their knowledge of geometric shapes, critical thinking, and problem solving.

Here's a preview:

Graphing and data collection require enduring practice. Here's a bundle of products to provide that:

Each product is differentiated into 3 skill levels.

Here's a preview of the FREE version, Sneakers Spin-Tally-Graph:

One of my favorite math centers is How Many Ways? This activity challenges students to find multiple equations that lead to a target number. (Think Boogle(TM) for numbers.)

You, the teacher, can determine which operations are appropriate to your class. This center is excellent for enrichment and challenging fast finishers. Better yet, it fills a bulletin board and requires almost NO effort from you once it's up. The Back to School version is FREE! Check it out:

Another bundle that challenges flexibility, fluency, and problem solving is the Latin Square Bundle.

These brain teasing puzzles are square arrays that must be filled in the style of Sudoku. The challenges range from 3x3 arrays to 7x7 arrays. This video provides more insight:

All of the Latin Squares math centers are also available digitally on TPT Easel.

VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are packed with learning. The challenge is to create terminology related to the theme using fractional parts of words. The activity gradually increases in difficulty. Try this FREEBIE from the Forest Friends theme: