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Features

Two quick questions a ticket
An "I can" line and three faces for students to rate themselves
Count the units around a shape, add the sides, and find a missing side from the perimeter
Compare rectangles with the same perimeter, and sort jobs into area or perimeter
Count right angles and parallel sides, circle every rectangle, circle every name that fits, and draw quadrilaterals on dot paper
Tickets 13.8 to 13.11 (polygons, lines, rays and angles, lines of symmetry, and solids made of unit cubes) are for the states that teach them in 3rd grade
Answer keys for every ticket

Skills Covered

Find a perimeter by counting units or adding sides
Find a missing side from the perimeter
Rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas
Decide whether a job needs area or perimeter

Right angles and parallel sides of quadrilaterals
Rhombuses, rectangles and squares
Draw quadrilaterals, even ones that fit no group
Polygons, lines and angles, symmetry and unit cubes

How to Use This Pack

Eleven exit tickets, one for each lesson of the unit on shapes and perimeter, 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 questions, then circle a face beside the lesson's "I can" line to show how sure they feel. Tickets 13.1 to 13.7 are the Common Core lessons; tickets 13.8 to 13.11 are state lessons.

In the Classroom

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. Tickets 13.8 to 13.11 are taught in 3rd grade in some states only: polygons (Virginia), lines, rays and angles (Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina), lines of symmetry (Florida, Georgia) and solids made of unit cubes (Oklahoma, Texas); skip the ones your class does not learn. The drawing questions have more than one right answer; the keys show one. The unit test is a separate pack and asks none of these problems.

At Home

Use a ticket as a quick check after practicing a skill together. Walk around a rug or a table to feel its perimeter, then find the shapes in the room with right angles and parallel sides.

Tips for Success

Have students mark each side as they add it, so none is counted twice
Ask "around or covering?" before each area or perimeter question
A square is a rectangle and a rhombus too
Keep dot paper and unit cubes on the tables
Keep the tickets for each lesson to see who has caught up

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

2.G.A.1 Draw and spot shapes with given features, like a number of angles or faces, and name triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes.
3.MD.C.7a Tile a rectangle with whole-number sides and show that the number of tiles matches multiplying its length by its width.
3.MD.C.7b Multiply length by width to get the area of whole-number rectangles in story and math problems, and picture products as rectangles.
3.MD.C.7c Use tiles or area models to show that splitting a rectangle's side into two parts splits its area into two products (the distributive property).
3.MD.D.8 Solve perimeter problems for polygons: add side lengths, find a missing side, and compare rectangles with equal perimeters but different areas, or the reverse.
3.G.A.1 See that shapes like rhombuses, rectangles and squares share features, such as four sides, that make them all quadrilaterals; draw quadrilaterals outside those groups.
4.G.A.1 Draw and find points, lines, line segments, rays, right, acute and obtuse angles, and parallel and perpendicular lines, including in flat shapes.
4.G.A.2 Sort flat shapes by whether they have parallel or perpendicular lines or angles of a certain size, and recognize right triangles as a group.
4.G.A.3 Find a line of symmetry, a fold line that makes two matching parts; pick out shapes that have one and draw their lines of symmetry.

3rd Grade Shapes and Perimeter Exit Tickets

3rd Grade3rd Grade Math Curriculum

Exit tickets for every lesson of a unit on perimeter and quadrilaterals. Each page holds one ticket four times to cut apart, with questions on perimeters and missing sides, area or perimeter, rhombuses, rectangles and squares, and drawing quadrilaterals.

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What’s Included

11 exit tickets, one for each lesson of the unit
Each ticket four times on its page, to copy and cut apart
An "I can" line with three faces on every ticket
Answer keys for every ticket (22 pages in all)

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