Fabulous Finds and a Fantastic Giveaway

I am a strong believer in the “Cubes” method for solving math word problems.  I’ve blogged about it {here}. 

Basically, students follow these guidelines to help them tackle a math word problem:

Click on the picture to see it closer, but basically:
C-Circle any key numbers
U-Underline the question
B-Box any action words
E-Evaluate how you will solve the problem
S-Solve the problem (and check).

I made the above “poster” for my students last year and wanted to make it larger for my room.  I was toying with taking the image to Wal-something or maybe Costco when along came Signs on the Cheap.

I was able to create a H.U.G.E banner of my “poster” and it is now hanging proudly on my window…I thought I had a better picture, but you can just make it out in the picture of my week 1 mess:

This 2 x 3 foot banner only costs about $12 and it’s customized to what my needs are in my classroom.  Score!

I also enlarged my “R.E.L.A.X” poster for testing:

R-Read the question carefully
E-Examine every answer choice
L-Label your answer in the passage or problem
A-Always check your work
X-X-out answers that cannot possibly be correct.

I love them both 🙂

You, too, can have banners in your classroom.

Or maybe you want to utilize the company’s Magnets on the Cheap:

For less than ten bucks, you can have a 9 x 12 car magnet made to your liking.

I knew I wanted to have pictures of supplies as a magnet.  This way, I could throw the magnet on the board of the supplies the kids needed out as they entered my room.  (Remember I’m teaching 3 classes of math.) I used the Back to School Supplies graphics from Michelle (The 3AM teacher) and inserted them into the template for the car magnet and created this:

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