Card Sort Activities
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Card Sort Activities are a great form of formative assessment for both the math and science classroom. These free printable card sorts will help you gain a better understanding of what concepts your students do and do not understand.

Math Card Sort Activities
Elementary and Middle School Math Card Sort Activities
Equivalent Fractions Card Sort Activity
This card sort activity features 51 cards – every single proper fraction that can be created using the sets of fraction tiles from EAI Education. Students must sort them into sets of equivalent fractions.
Algebra Card Sort Activities
Expressions with Exponents Card Sort Activity
This expressions with exponents card sort task really gets to the bottom of whether students understand the role played by exponents and coefficients.
Function vs Not a Function Card Sort Activity
This function vs not a function card sort activity is the perfect way to assess whether or not students can apply the definition of a function to determine whether a relation is or is not a function.
Like Radicals Card Sort Activity
Students are given 25 cards featuring radicals that range from square roots to fourth roots. Some of the radicals are simplified. Others need to be simplified. Students must group the cards into piles of “like radicals.”
Vertex Form of a Quadratic Card Sort Activity
This card sort is the perfect activity to introduce students to the vertex form of quadratic functions.
Statistics Card Sort Activities
Categorical and Quantitative Variables Card Sort Activity
Looking for a fun way to assess student understanding on categorical and quantitative variables? Check out this card sort activity I created for my statistics classes involving data that could be collected in an emergency room.
Levels of Measurement Card Sort Activity
Practice classifying variables according to the 4 levels of measurement with this free and fun statistics card sort activity.
Dotplot Matching Card Sort Activity
This dotplot matching activity gives students seven variables and seven dotplots. The scales have been intentionally left off the axes of the dotplots. Students are tasked with matching each variable with its corresponding dotplot.
Science Card Sort Activities
Matter vs. Not Matter Card Sort
Before giving my chemistry students a specific definition of matter, I decided to let them play with the concept themselves through a matter vs not matter card sort.