Eight exit tickets, one for each lesson of a 3rd grade unit on area, in lesson order. Each page holds one lesson's ticket four times: copy the page, cut on the dashed lines, and seven copies give a class of 28 a ticket each. A ticket takes a few minutes at the end of the lesson. Students answer two short questions, then circle a face beside the lesson's "I can" line to show how sure they feel. The early tickets count squares; side lengths start with ticket 4.5, and the times sign with ticket 4.4.
Hand out the tickets in the last five minutes of the lesson and collect them at the door. Sort them into three piles (got it, almost, not yet) to plan tomorrow's small groups. The faces show how students feel about the lesson, the answers show what they can do; the two do not always agree. On ticket 4.3 any shape with the right number of squares is right; the key shows one way. Every lesson of this unit is Common Core, so every ticket is for every class. The unit test is a separate pack, and no ticket asks one of its problems.
Use a ticket as a quick check after practicing a skill together. Find rectangles at home (a placemat, a floor tile, a book) and ask how many squares would cover it, then how to find that by multiplying.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Exit tickets for every lesson of a unit on area, from covering a shape with unit squares to multiplying side lengths and adding the parts of shapes made of rectangles. Each page holds one ticket four times to cut apart, with questions on counting square units, naming the unit, drawing a shape with an area, tiled rectangles, side lengths, area stories, splitting a rectangle and shapes made of two rectangles.
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