Back to School Wheels: Class Expectations, Math About Me, Math Talk & More

Use these engaging back to school wheels to introduce or review class expectations and math talk (math discussion expectations).

• Use the Meet the Mathematician (Math About Me) wheel to get to know your students and create a beautiful bulletin board display!
• When you're ready to think about test-taking, use the Test-Taking Strategies wheel to get students on the right track with these skills as early in the year as possible!

Students love this engaging wheel format for taking notes and practicing concepts!

• You can use these back to school wheels as your introduction to using wheels in math or in ELA.
• Students take notes and use color to help with memory.
• Students can keep these graphic organizers in their notebooks as a reference all year.

Each back to school wheel file includes:

• Student wheel(s) with sections for notes and examples, depending on the topic
• Key with suggested notes
• Colored sample
• Editable PowerPoint file with a blank wheel so you can create your own wheels for ANY topic (for classroom use only)

Features of these easy-to-use back to school resources:

• Notes sections and examples
• Questions or phrases in the pattern around the circle
• Coloring/doodling opportunity: students can color the background pattern, as well as the headings and doodle arrows, to make the ideas more memorable

The back to school wheels include:

Class Expectations (2 versions)

Math Talk (2 versions)

Meet the Mathematician (2 versions)

Test-taking Strategies (2 versions)

What teachers are saying about the individual back to school wheels:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Class Expectations: “I use this with all of my new students to establish classroom expectations. It ensures that everyone knows what is expected and what it looks like. It also helps me get to know the students. I recommend this for every classroom every grade.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Math Talk: “Great resource for students to keep in their math notebooks. Gives them some accountable talk to use during math discussions. Thanks!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meet the Mathematician: “My students were definitely engaged with this activity! They enjoyed that it wasn't just math (ex/ # of pets), and I liked that math was still in there :) It was a great first week of school activity!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Test-Taking Strategies: "We refer back to this wheel time and time again as a class! Strategies are broad enough to help students with tests of different subjects."

Related Resources:

Back to School Activity Getting to Know You Math Truth or Dare (FREE)

Back to School Footloose Math Pre-assessment & Getting to Know You (FREE)

Coloring Pages
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