Create a welcoming and engaging math classroom environment with these 10 creative math bulletin board ideas for middle school or high school math classrooms.
Bulletin Boards
I created these unit circle magnets to use with my dry erase magnetic unit circle from EAI Education. I plan to use the magnets both as a way to have a large unit circle on the wall of my classroom and for various activities throughout the year. When I share pictures of my magnetic unit …
I have a new bulletin board in my classroom – an origami bulletin board! I love that it can be used by both students and myself to showcase our origami creations. A couple of months ago, I finally got around to switching out a long overdue bulletin board in my classroom. After our school building …
I’m here today to share some Roots Solutions Zeros X-Intercepts Posters. Yes, that is a mouthful. Yesterday, I started doing some serious planning for teaching Algebra 2 in less than a month! I’m at a new school that has adopted new textbooks, and I’m not exactly the biggest fan of the chosen Algebra 2 book. …
I took the SolveMe Mobiles that my students created using construction paper and circle stickers and turned it into a bulletin board so that students could attempt to solve the mobiles created by other students.
Just a quick post today to share a new covalent compounds bulletin board. I haven’t done a great job of changing my bulletin boards out this year, but that can pretty much be said about any year. I always have intentions of changing them monthly, but the reality is I change them anywhere from semesterly …
Before I share the chromatography butterflies bulletin board that my chemistry students created, I should make it clear that I’m teaching chemistry this year under some not-so-normal circumstances. I still want to keep my chemistry class as hands-on as possible. This has meant that I have to get creative to find lab activities that my …
I created this calculator bulletin board in my math classroom to serve as a handy reference to both myself and my students. I used bulletin board letters which I bought from Dollar Tree to spell out Scientific and Graphing above the two different calculator posters I got from Texas Instruments. I added specific reminders about …
I decided to take this bulletin board that hangs over my desk and turn it into a math reference bulletin board. You can find all of these posters to download on my posters page!
I created this interactive Witzzle Bulletin Board to make it easy to play Witzzle throughout the year with my students. I love using the game of Witzzle as a beginning of the year activity or as a brain break or early-finisher activity throughout the school year. Not sure how to play Witzzle? I’ve got a …
This year, I am having a terrible time getting my posters to stay on the wall. Every day, I play the “let’s see how many posters fell down overnight” game. #sofun This summer, I made a set of Convince Me posters. They started out hanging under my dry erase board. But, every day, I would …
During my second year of teaching, I put up this Star Students bulletin board: It was a HUGE hit! My students from the previous year came back by my room to complain about the fact that I hadn’t had that bulletin board the previous year. I laminated the stars so I could write on them …
I’m excited to share my student’s creative wheel of theodorus projects which I turned into a Wheel of Theodorus Bulletin Board to decorate my high school math classroom. Every year, I have this plan to change my bulletin boards out throughout the school year. This year that happened only once. It also happened way back …
In addition to my Change Your Words Change Your Mindset Bulletin Board, I’m also really excited about this How to Learn Math Bulletin Board. This bulletin board stems from the theory of growth mindset. If I truly believe that mistakes are good and that is how we learn, my classroom grading policy needs to reflect …
Today I want to share my newest Change Your Words Change Your Mindset Bulletin Board. I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy with my bulletin boards before. They make me smile. They represent what I think is important. They are useful to students. They spark conversations. This year, I’m working to help my kids …
I created this absent work bulletin board for my students to reference in order to see what they missed when they are absent. Were you absent? Look at the calendar for the day you were gone. It will tell you if there was a homework assignment that you missed. Get the homework assignment out …
On my Star Students Bulletin Board, students will have their name written on a star if they score an 85 percent or above on a chapter test. Their name will remain up there until their next chapter test.
I put together the Pascal’s Triangles that my students colored to create this Pascal’s Triangle Bulletin Board. After having my students fill out the digits in Pascal’s Triangle, I had students choose different methods of coloring in the cells of the triangle. You can download free blank Pascal’s Triangle templates from my blog to make …
I learned about Truth Signs while reading Inspiring Active Learning by Merrill Harmin and Melanie Toth. According to the authors: Truth Signs are not the usual signs posted in classrooms. They do not tell students what to do (“Think before you act” or “Respect the rights of others”). They do nor moralize. Nor do they …
Every time I walk in the door of my classroom, I see the decorations, and I just get so happy. I’m sure the newness will wear off soon, but I’m enjoying it for now. My door says: When you enter this classroom… You are mathematicians. You are explorers. You are important. You are respected. You …
I made this math bulletin board by printing off various math logo posters from the NCCTM website. These math posters are from the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. They have a math logo contest each year, and the winning entries are inspiring and fun to look at! I plan on changing this next …
This Left Side Bulletin Board is my attempt at giving myself inspiration for how to have students do creative practice activities on the left side pages of their interactive notebooks. This board will remain a work in progress throughout the school year. As I learn new, creative ways to do the LHS of our INBs, …
Less than a week until school starts. I still have so much to do. I did complete one of my bulletin boards today. This is my new Problem Solving Strategies Posters and Bulletin Board. I got to use my new toy: a Laminator! The school has a giant laminator in the teacher’s lounge, but you have …