Multiplication/Division Anchor Chart
This school year I am becoming increasingly obsessed with Anchor Charts within my digital classroom. I have found them to be super helpful for a lot of my students who need that quick reminder of the process of their math problems and it allows them to feel really confident about themselves too! That’s why I decided to create a multiplication/division anchor chart. I wasn’t too sure how I was going to incorporate this into my virtual lessons but I found out that I can pop them in right next to the work my students do on google slides like this:
Talk about a game changer when I realized that google slides will let me add to the left and right of the paper as much as I want. Well at least currently it has let me, but I will update everyone if it reaches a limit and I add too many tools (LOL). This was such a huge success for my students who need some extra tools when doing their math problems and I have yet to find a good website that lets me do this productively for my small groups.
I decided to dig a bit deeper about anchor charts and found out that when it came to those who studied literacy anchor charts that they found that: “Anchor charts provide a record of our instruction. Anchor charts make both the teacher’s and the students’ thinking visible and concrete,” (Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis, 2007, p.50). Read more about anchor charts in this extensive research and guide here:
That is exactly what I wanted/needed for my students who are working on multiplying and dividing. I needed a way for them to make the processes I am teaching more concrete. In addition, I wanted to promote comprehension and independence for my students who are struggling with processing disorders in mathematics. So that is when this multiplication and division anchor chart was created:
Available on my TPT here.
I hope this post about anchor charts helped you come up with some things that your students may need an anchor chart for and how you could start to incorporate them into your classroom. Until next time,
Happy Learning :)