Placemat Activities

Placemat activities can be used to review or practice material that has already been covered. It is a group activity with three or four people in a group. Both activities require large sheets of paper. Have students divide into sections as shown below. It is best if each student has his/her own color marker to work with and signs their work.

Activity One – SUM IT UP!

Each group receives the same set of four cards. Each student takes one cards and completes the problem on their card in their area of the placemat. After they get their answer, someone in the group should add up all the answers in and write the total to the nearest hundredth in the middle space. The whole group should raise their hands so the teacher knows to check that group. The teach checks the number. If it is correct, the students will give back the first set of cards and receive set two. Make the set progressively more difficult. If the sum is wrong then they are to rework their problems. I do not tell which problem is wrong, the group to work together to find the error. You may want to devise some sort of reward system for the groups.

Activity two- 10 for 10

In this placemat activity ten questions are presented on the board or handed to each group. Students solve the problems silently on the placemat in their area. After most of the students seem to be finished, give a five minutes discussion tome to allow the students to come to consensus on the answers. The group must agree on the answers and then write them in the group answer box in the center of the placemat.

Answers:

1A -1/4

1B 2/3

1C 3

1D 9

Total Sum or 12.4167

Answers:

2A 45 degrees

2B 2340 degrees

2C 108 degrees

2D 8

Total Sum 2501

Answers:

3A 154

3B 486

3C 5

3D 97

Total Sum 742

Answer the following:

  1. If a quadrilateral is a rhombus, it is also a ??? and a ???
  1. All parallelograms are also???
  1. A kite with exactly two lines of symmetry is a ???
  1. The segment that joins the opposite vertices of a parallelogram is a ???
  1. True or False: All squares are rectangles.
  1. What is the distance formula?
  1. Find the distance between (2, 4) and (8, 3).
  1. Find the slope between (2, 4) and (8, 3).
  1. Find the distance between (-2, 7) and (-3, -6).

10. If a line has a slope of three, what is the slope of

a line perpendicular to this line?

Answers to 10 for 10

  1. a parallelogram and a kite
  1. quadrilateral
  1. rhombus
  1. diagonal
  1. true

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