Texas Math Models

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More practice

When the chart isn’t enough, these are the printables that go with it. They’re sold on Teachers Pay Teachers under CTG Learning, and every link opens the listing there, so you can see the price and look through the preview pages before you buy anything. The few that cost nothing are marked.

one Texas standard at a time

Exit tickets and quizzes · Grade 3

A short check on one standard, with an answer key and notes on what each wrong answer usually means. Where there are more versions, they match question for question, so a second round measures the same thing.

TEKS 3.2D

Comparing and ordering big numbers

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 3.4A

Adding and subtracting to 1,000

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 3.4K

Solving one- and two-step multiplication and division problems

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 3.5B

Multiplication and division word problems

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 3.5E

Relationships in a table

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 3.6C

Area of rectangles

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 3.8A

Reading and building graphs

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

one Texas standard at a time

Exit tickets and quizzes · Grade 4

A short check on one standard, with an answer key and notes on what each wrong answer usually means. Where there are more versions, they match question for question, so a second round measures the same thing.

TEKS 4.2B

What a digit is worth

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 4.2G

Decimals and fractions that mean the same thing

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 4.3D

Comparing two fractions

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 4.4A

Adding and subtracting decimals

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 4.5A

Drawing a word problem before solving it

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 4.5D

Perimeter and area of rectangles

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 4.8C

Measurement word problems

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

TEKS 4.9A

Showing data on dot plots, tables and stem-and-leaf plots

Four questions, an answer key, and a page on what each wrong answer means.

six ways to solve one problem, on one page

Strategy anchor charts · Grades 3–4

The same charts this site is built from, as one-page printables for the fridge, a binder or a classroom wall.

Addition

One problem, added six ways: from disks you can count to the way you were taught.

Subtraction

Borrowing, counting up, counting back. Same answer, six routes to it.

Multiplication

Equal groups, arrays, area models, and how they turn into the way you were taught.

Division

Division asks two different questions. Here are both, and six ways to answer them.

Place value

What each digit is worth, written six ways, and why dropping a zero changes the number.

Rounding & Estimating · Grades 3 and 4

Rounding as a spot on a number line, and how to tell if an answer makes sense.

Fractions · what they are

A fraction is one number, not two. Six ways to see that.

Fraction strips wall

One whole cut nine ways. Read down to find equal fractions, across to see which is bigger.

Fractions · adding & subtracting

Adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators, modeled.

Decimals

Tenths and hundredths. Everything you already know, one place further right.

Strip diagrams

The bar picture Texas calls a strip diagram, and the six shapes a word problem takes.

Tables & number rules

A table hides a rule. How to find it, check it on every row, and use it on a row nobody printed.

Area

The squares inside a rectangle, counted six ways, and why it isn’t the distance around.

Perimeter

The distance around a shape, walked six ways, including the missing side the standard asks for.

2D figures

Six yes-or-no tests that sort any flat shape, by sides, angles, parallels and folds.

Angles

What an angle measures, how to read a protractor, and the two numbers you subtract.

Data & graphs

Tally chart, dot plot, pictograph, bar graph and stem-and-leaf, all holding one set of counts.

the day’s learning target, in words a child can read

I Can statements · Kindergarten to Grade 4

One card for each of the grade’s math content standards, rewritten as an “I can” sentence that keeps the standard’s limits, with key vocabulary on every card. Each one comes as a full-page poster and as a sentence strip, in color and in black and white. Kindergarten through 2nd grade have a picture on every card.

for younger learners

Early learning · Pre-K 3, Pre-K 4 and Kindergarten

Activity books for six early math skills, by age.