Get to Know You Math Activities | Class Survey, Word Problems and Operations

Get to know you math activities for the first weeks

These get to know you math activities are a 13 page packet with 80 questions for grades 3 to 7. The problems use the kind of numbers students share about themselves: quiz scores, minutes of practice, pages read, ages and the size of the class.

Students answer personal math survey questions, judge classroom data statements as true or false, fill in sentences from a Number Bank and calculate short answers about their own world.

Teachers who need get to know you math activities for the start of a school year will find four sections of 20 questions here, and the packet comes with an answer key, an answer sheet and a lesson plan.

What’s on the pages

The worksheet has four sections of 20 questions each, and each one has its own heading and directions.

• Personal math survey multiple choice: such as a student who scored 85 and then 90 on two quizzes, and minutes spent on math and reading practice.
• Classroom data true or false: statements such as half of 16 students being 9, and 5 students with 5 erasers each having 20 erasers.
• Math about me, Number Bank: sentences such as 4 students who each bring 4 books, and the days in a school week from Monday to Friday. Not all of the numbers are used.
• Get to know your numbers, short answer: calculations such as pages read over three days, the perimeter of a 6 by 4 foot bulletin board and 4 shelves with 15 books each.

Because the numbers are about a class, students feel that the math belongs to them.

What’s in the download

• Student worksheet: 13 pages
• Answer key: 16 pages, with a short explanation after each answer
• Answer sheet: 4 pages
• Lesson plan: 2 pages

The four parts add up to 35 pages, and everything comes as PDF.

How to use these get to know you math activities

The lesson plan is set for 60 to 90 minutes. Its objectives are to connect personal and classroom numbers to basic operations, to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems in relatable student contexts, and to read data, compare numbers and measure with whole numbers.

The plan begins with a 10 minute warm-up in which students share personal numbers such as shoe size, age and the number of siblings. Then students move through the four sections, with the true or false section used to talk about why false statements are false. The class ends with a discussion of survey totals and number patterns in the class data.

The materials list the printed worksheet, pencils and scratch paper, and rulers for measuring a desk or a paper.

Collect a few real class numbers before you start. Students enjoy checking a worksheet question against their own class.

The answer sheet keeps the worksheet clean for reuse, and the answer key gives a short explanation after every answer.

Looking for class survey math, a math all about me worksheet or a beginning of the year math review? These get to know you math activities cover both, and the get to know you math activities with answer key pages let a helper check the work in minutes.

Where it fits

Use it for the first weeks of school, a math center, morning work, homework or a sub plan. Homeschool families can work through one section a day.

Take a look at the preview pages before you buy, so you can see the worksheet, the answer key and the answer sheet.

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Many teachers use these get to know you math activities in a weekly routine, one section per day, and repeat the set after a few weeks to see growth.

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