5th Grade Math - Ms. Cotton's Corner

3 Reasons You Will Love this Math Spiral Review Resource

Posted on December 15, 2023 by scotton23 Leave a comment

Update: This Giveaway has passed, but you can still grab the Math Spiral Review Resource on TPT! Be sure to follow this blog, and follow Ms. Cotton’s Corner on Instagram and TPT so you never miss a FLASH FREEBIE again!

Today’s FLASH FREEBIE is a Math Spiral Review for 5th grade. It’s a standby in my classroom during testing season, and it will be in yours as well. Grab it today – you will thank yourself later!

Grab the Math Spiral Review here!

You will love this Math Spiral Review for 5th grade! It’s perfect for review right before a standardized test, or to keep skills strong all year long. The format is simple, and includes 4 different standards per page. The questions are based off released items from PARCC and SBAC, so the rigor is high and the standards are ALL covered!

This is part of my 12 Days of Giveaways in December. Want to get more freebies? Follow me so you don’t miss a single one! Just click the black button to the right, and the blog posts will be delivered to your inbox. Or, find Ms. Cotton’s Corner on Instagram – the daily freebies will be posted in both locations!

Do your teacher friends like free resources? Be sure to forward this to them – they deserve free resources too!

What is Included in this Math Spiral Review for 5th grade?

This Math Spiral Review gives your students practice to master fractions, multiplication, division and decimals. Every Math Standard is practiced at least twice! It is perfect for homework, morning work, bell ringers, centers or test prep, and it now includes a printable PDF and EASEL for digital!

This resource contains 6 weeks of spiral review covering every 5th grade math standard with a bonus 7th week! This resource contains 35 daily practice pages. It’s perfect for review right before the test! This also makes a great beginning of the year review for 6th grade. Another way to use this resource is to have students complete one page per week, which then keeps the review going for the entire school year! You choose how to use this to meet the needs of your students and your teaching style!

The questions are based on released items from PARCC and SBAC, so there is a high-level of rigor. Four standards are practiced each day, and each standard will be practiced at least 2 times over the course of 6 weeks. The review focuses heavily on the major work of fifth grade – decimals, multiplication, division and volume. Fractions are also practiced multiple times. In my experience, these are the standards which students need the most support to master. The bonus 7th week spirals through every decimal and fraction standard at least one more time!

3 Reasons You Will Love this Math Spiral Review!

First, what is spiral review? The idea of spiral review is a systematic revisiting of key concepts at spaced intervals. Spiral review helps students deepen their understanding, use their knowledge in new ways, and remember it! Math Spiral Review is especially effective at increasing long term mastery.

You will love this Math Spiral Review resource because it works! This resource includes every 5th grade math standard, and some 4th grade math standards. The systematic spiral gives extra time to the content students typically struggle with – fractions, decimals and multiplication/division.

I believe that teachers and students deserve choices. You will love this Math Spiral Review because you have choices. There are 4 rigorous problems on each page. Choose to have students do one page a day for 6-7 weeks OR choose to have students complete 1 problem a day. The review can take you weeks, or months! Do what works for you and your students!

Have you ever had a student say, “I’m just not a math person?” That lack of confidence can kill a student’s ability to learn and achieve. Math Spiral Review builds confidence because the repetition makes the problem content and types feel familiar. Familiarity boosts confidence, and that boosts achievement! This Math Spiral Review will help your students find their inner mathematician.

What do Other Teachers Say About this Math Spiral Review?

“I used this during summer school, and will use again next year. It covers a lot of review.”
T

“This is great daily test prep! I’m extremely satisfied with this!”
-Rebecca B.

Love This Math Spiral Review? Check out these…

Click the images to check out theses resources, and more in my store!

Make sure you don’t miss a single FREEBIE this December! Follow this blog by clicking the black button to the right, and follow me on Instagram and TPT too! While you’re at it, forward this post to your teacher friends and share the love. Everyone deserves free resources this December!

Click here to Grab the Math Spiral Review!

I hope this Math Spiral Review, and the 11 other free resources I’m giving away in December help you have a wonderful holiday season, and your students too. Grab it today!

Happy teaching!

Susan

Using Google Forms Escape Rooms

Posted on March 20, 2021 by scotton23 One comment

In the past year and a half, I have grown to love Google Forms. They are so versatile – you can include text, videos, photos… There are tons of different ways to ask questions, and they save me time because they are self-grading. What’s not to love? I use them for all the time. For more information on how to use them, be sure to check out this blog post.

Why digital instead of physical?

One of the things I most enjoy creating with Google Forms is Escape Rooms. I used paper Escape Rooms in my classroom before discovering the digital version, and I will never go back! Escape Rooms are so fun and engaging for kids – they forget they are learning! The key advantage of Google Form Escape Rooms is no prep. With the paper version, you have to print, cut, laminate, assemble, distribute…. You get the idea. Once a digital Escape Room is created, there is NO PREP! Just assign it through your Google Classroom, put the kids in groups, and away they go! For more about assigning Google Forms in Google Classroom, check out this blog post.

Escape Rooms teach content

Of course, an Escape Room is only as good as its content. My bestseller, Escape from the Lab uses texts and videos to teach students about the states of matter and to increase their comprehension skills of non-fiction text. It is a straightforward Escape Room that includes all of the information that students need to escape. Each section has a new lock, and the answers to the questions give students the code. I labeled this Escape Room B for Beginner because students do not need to solve difficult riddles and crack codes to be successful. Use this type of Escape Room if you haven’t done them with your students before or if you want the focus to be only content, and not include the extra layer of codes and ciphers. If students get the right answers to the questions, they will also have the codes and solutions for the riddles. These Escape Rooms are a similar challenge level – the content is on grade level, the codes are simple and all the information is clearly presented to the students

Escape from Santa’s Workshop – a Decimal Escape Room
Escape from the Sun – an Order of Operations Escape Room
The Pet Nabber – an Escape Room type adventure about Number Sense

If your students are more experienced with Escape Rooms, I just finished creating Escape from Ireland, an adventure about the stories of Ireland. It’s perfect for St. Patrick’s day! The focus is on reading comprehension, so students read embedded texts and answer questions about them. The Escape Room includes a biography of St. Patrick that you can download for free on TPT! It also includes a retelling of the Legend of Finn MacCool, a fictional story about the Leprechaun King and 3 short descriptions of famous castles in Ireland. When you put those texts together with the storyline of the Escape Room, kids will be doing a lot of reading! The codes and riddles require some background knowledge, so this is rated I for Intermediate. I have filled this Escape Room with high quality photographs of Ireland, interesting texts and opportunities for critical thinking and problem solving. Plus, there are leprechauns and magic! What’s not to love!

You Decide Escape Rooms

Another type of Escape Room adventure is the choose your own adventure style. This is by far the most complicated type of Escape Room to create. It is not straightforward because the students make decisions during the activity, and each decision leads down a different path. These are incredibly engaging for for the kids, and I find that they play them over and over because they can have a different outcome each time! Escape from Plymouth Colony and Adventure in the Chocolate Factory are both this type of Escape Room.

Summary

Escape Rooms are versatile and easy to use, and kids love them! The varied formats, videos, texts, images, and adventure will hook them, and you will love the content and important strategies and skills that students can practice. Check out these digital Escape Rooms today and give one a try in your classroom. You will be glad you did!