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Making Ten to Add & Subtract: A Live Workshop for K–2 Teachers
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Explore foundational geometry and shape skills with these Differentiated Geo Board Task Cards, created specifically for 1st grade math centers. These hands-on activities help students develop spatial awareness and geometric reasoning by building, partitioning, and identifying shapes on a geo board.
Explore foundational geometry and shape skills with these Differentiated Geo Board Task Cards, created specifically for 1st grade math centers. These hands-on activities help students develop spatial awareness and geometric reasoning by building, partitioning, and identifying shapes on a geo board.
With three levels of differentiation, this resource supports a range of learners and is ideal for math centers, morning tubs, early finishers, or small group instruction. Students will practice identifying basic shapes, creating composite shapes, and partitioning shapes into smaller parts—all while actively engaging with math.
What’s Included:
Use this resource to reinforce key 1st grade geometry standards, support differentiated instruction, and make your math block more engaging. A great fit for teachers looking to add hands-on exploration and visual reasoning to their math routine.
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Join me for a hands-on workshop exploring what to model, which questions to ask, and how to respond when students get stuck using ten to add and subtract.
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Kathie G. –
Thank you for the 3 levels of tasks cards. It created a challenge for everyone.
Suzanne B. –
Great activity for math morning tubs, helps students understand how to build shapes
Emily G. –
My students absolutely loved this geoboard station! I started with just creating the shapes, and then I used the ones where they are partioned to have the students decide if they were equal or unequal instead of simply writing the name of the shape (I whited out over that part of the page before making copies).
Danielle G. –
I use this resource at the beginning of the year during center time with my students. For the first few weeks, I tend to do more of a focus on building fine motor skills with my students (among other things) and find that geo boards really help with this. I like that they are able to follow the task cards when starting out to give them different ideas for how to manipulate the rubber bands on the boards.
Serenity L. –
I added these to my geoboards morning tubs to give the kids ideas on what they could make!
Kari C. –
My students enjoyed building new shapes on the geoboards.
Katie M. –
Great resource for when you are working with shapes!
elizabeth nichols –
The kids loved these activities. Engaging activities
Charitie P. –
I LOVE all of Brown Bag Teacher’s math resources.
Barbara K. –
My students used this for morning work/bins. It supports their understanding of 2 D shapes and provides opportunities to work with those shapes.
Gina H. –
My students loved this resource. It’s differentiated, engaging, and so much fun. Thank you for creating this wonderful resource!
Emily G. –
Love this! The kids had a blast using it.
Allison N. –
Great Resource
ELIZABETH T. –
My students loved using this resource as one of our morning tubs!
Learning Endlessly –
My students loved this in a geometry center.
Student to Teacher –
Thank you!