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I tried labeling them for you in the photo above (the strands aren’t actually present on my math wall). This created a natural “categorization” to help my students easily navigate the wall. I like to keep my words organized, and this year I decided to organize them by Common Core strand.

This also means that I place them on our Meeting Area easel during the introduction, and later move them to their permanent place on the Math Word Wall. Since my math word wall is on a magnetic white board, I use magnetic tape (or cut up the magnetic business card stickers from Staples) to hold them up.

Just like our ELA word wall, we start the year off empty (it doesn’t make sense to put up a bunch of words that mean nothing to them yet!) Even though I would love our classroom to look finished on the first day of school, it’s important to introduce things slowly, and give students ownership over the information that goes up in their classroom.Įach time we came across a new term in a lesson, I pulled out a new math card. It looked nothing like this at the beginning! Mind you, this is how it looked at the end of the year. I now love my math wall and it has become a great focus wall and point of reference for my students.

Allow the words themselves to carry a visual when possible (see Fractions, Even, Odd, Equation…).

Colorful (if it’s going to be up on my wall all year, it needs to be pleasing to the eye!).

It has accomplished all of my Math Word Wall goals! This was my Math Word Wall this past year in second grade: I teach in an inclusion setting, with a high population of ELLs, so I really wanted to make the vocabulary as accessible as possible!

I started working on a new math wall with my student’s needs in the front of my mind. However, over time I cam to the realization that I only had them up because I liked them (insert gasp and dreaded feeling of being a horrible teacher!) To my students, these cards were probably very distracting and were not helping them learn and remember the vocabulary. My old math word wall cards were adorable! They used really cute clip art and fun fonts.

Hate is a strong word, so I will say that I thoroughly disliked it! Why? Well, it’s a bit embarrassing. A few years ago I tore down my math wall. I LOVE my math word wall now, but it hasn’t always been that way.

#Wordwall images how to

Do you have a Math Word Wall in your classroom? Have you thought about having one, but not sure where to begin? Well, today I’m going to show you how I have used Math Word Walls in my classroom, and some tips for how to make them an effective reference tool in your classroom!