Area and Perimeter Game | 4th and 5th Grade | Differentiated Math Centers

Practice area and perimeter in a fun, hands-on way! Get your students engaged in practicing 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade math standards with this fun and effective spin and answer game! This download includes no-prep practice activities that are easily differentiated to meet all of your students’ needs. Just add a paperclip to play! Use these games as small group games, math stations or whole class review. Set up as a fun spinner game, your students won’t even notice that they are completing rigorous math problems.

This area and perimeter spinner math game is the perfect math game for your 3rd – 5th grade class. Students will learn and practice solving for perimeter and area. This printable game is sure to be a crowd favorite for your class. The math game is easy to prep and will provide your students with hours of fun learning. Just print the games, decide the level for each student, add a paperclip, and begin increasing engagement immediately. With games for below level, on level and above level you can quickly and easily differentiate for the needs of your students. Students will practice solving for area and perimeter in a fun and engaging way.

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This Spin and Answer Math Game Includes:

• Teacher Tips
• Directions Page
• 9 no-prep printable Area and Perimeter games:

1. Calculating Area (1 digit by 1 digit)
2. Calculating Area (2 digit by 1 digit)
3. Calculating Area (2 digit by 2 digit)
4. Calculating Perimeter (1 digit by 1 digit)
5. Calculating Perimeter (2 digit by 1 digit)
6. Calculating Perimeter (2 digit by 2 digit)
7. Area and Perimeter (1 digit by 1 digit)
8. Area and Perimeter (1 digit by 1 digit)
9. Area and Perimeter (2 digit by 2 digit)

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How to Play: Students play the game by holding a paperclip on the spinner using the tip of a pencil. They spin the paperclip on the top spinner first and write that number under column #1. Then they spin the paperclip on the second spinner then write that number under column #2. Students use the two numbers to complete the problem and write their answer in the column #3.

What’s the best way to use these spin and answer games? 

• Math Centers or Stations
• Whole Group Practice
• Morning Work
• Early Finisher Activities
• Substitutes
• Send home to engage students’ families

Tips for Playing this Math Game: 

• Read the directions to the students and model how to play.
• Be prepared with paperclips for each player.
• Every student should solve every problem – not just the person who spins.
• Create groups of 2-4 students. The lower number of students means the more focused students are while playing.
• Remind students that the focus is not playing the game but that’s just an added bonus! The focus should be on practicing math skills.
• Show students how to compare and discuss answers. Did you both get the same answer? If students get different answers, ask them to solve the problem using a different strategy or help coach each other through the problem.

Do your students need math practice? Students will be playing a game and will often forget that they are even practicing math skills! Research shows that challenge-based gamification in the classroom leads to an increase of 34.755% in student performance (ScienceDirect, 2020).

The best part? Your students will quickly learn the instructions to play the spin and answer games and will get right to work on playing (and practicing) their math skills. This resource is easy to use and requires very little prep. It’s also printer friendly so you’ll only use black ink!

Standard Covered:

• 3.MD.C.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
• 4.MD.A.3 Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an unknown factor.

Here’s what other teachers have to say about these spin and answer games…

⭐ “What a way to engage students!”

⭐ “Easy to use, my students enjoyed this resource as a math fluency review center.”

⭐ “I love how there are many different ways to use this as differentiation!! Thank you!”

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