• Use a bulletin board to help teach basic concepts in math.math image by jaddingt from Fotolia.com
  
  Teachers create bulletin boards to help introduce and reinforce concepts learned in the classroom. Teachers might create bulletin boards based around an overall theme, or create a board for each subject in the class, such as mathematics. To add flair to your math bulletin board, look for unusual graphic elements at craft or party supply stores, and consider using fabric as a background instead of traditional paper.
  
  

Graphs That Look Different

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  Fifth grade students may know how to read different graphs, but might not be able to compare the information from one type of graph to another. Create a bulletin board that displays several types of graphs and charts, such as a bar charts, line charts and pie charts, with each graph displaying the same information. Point out the similarities and differences between the charts.
  
  Make the board interactive by reading a similar word problem and having the students make their own chart to represent the data. Allow them to make the chart using any method, or encourage them to create every possible chart that they know how to create.
  
  

Divide and Conquer

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  Fashion a bulletin board with a military theme that features division worksheets with good scores. Title the board "Divide and Conquer" with coordinating letters and include other military type themes such as a civil war soldier on a horse, or camouflage. Include worksheets with perfect scores, and papers from students who have significantly improved.
  
  

Shapes Are Everywhere

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  Create a bulletin board of a city landscape that shows how different geometrical shapes are commonly used in the world around us. Point out that triangles and squares are commonly used to construct buildings, and that other shapes, such as hexagons and triangles are frequently used in traffic signs. Ask students to point out the different types of shapes on the bulletin board. Ask them to look around the classroom to see how many different shapes they can find.
  
  

Formula of Area

• Remind students how to calculate area of shapes with the equations and examples. Post a large rectangle with the formula "Area = Length x Width" inside the shape. Post a large circle in on the board with the formula "Area = π x radis^2" inside the shape. Remind students that the formula is always the same for the shape, regardless of the size of the shape.
  
  

Pizza Fractions

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  Help students better understand by comparing sliced pizzas with fractions. Create pizza-shaped visuals that are sliced into different numbers of slices. Students who learn visually will benefit most from this type of comparison bulletin board because they will be able to see that a large pizza cut into sixteen slices is the same size as a large pizza cut into eight slices.