Teaching+Tool

For our teaching tool we created a bulletin board. We designed the bulletin board by cutting out different colored paper with which to make letters, shapes, and spring graphics and paste/staple these to our board. We also used a few sheets of computer paper to give definitions of area and perimeter. The math skills this bulletin board covers include finding area and perimeter. This teaching tool is not self-correcting because it does not have problems for students to solve. However, it does have formulas for finding the area of different types of shapes.

We want students to use this bulletin board as a review because they have already been introduced to area and perimeter. We also would like them to use it as a reference. We hope that it may be beneficial to their problem-solving projects if they are working on finding area or perimeter and need a little reminder about how to do so. They can easily reference the board for help. We hope that students will learn from this to be more independent and not to have to rely on the teachers so much for help. We additionally hope it will reinforce their understandings of area and perimeter.

Here is a picture of our bulletin board: