Guided Math Workstations Grades 3-5

Address and target your students’ varied learning needs with Guided Math Workstations.

Guided Math Workstations help provide a carefully planned numeracy-rich environment where students are challenged to not just do math, but to become mathematicians. When utilizing guided math workstations, sometimes known as a math workshop, teachers will be able to successfully target the specific needs of learners with small-group lessons as students work independently on tasks.

Guided Math Workstations for Grades 3-5 was created by teachers for teachers and students by the experts at Shell Education. It provides detailed instructions on how to successfully implement guided math workshops into grade 3-5 classrooms, and contains detailed instructions for all the steps from set up to planning and managing existing workstations.

Each workstation task includes: an overview of the lesson, materials, objective, procedure, and differentiation tactics; a Student Task card with directions and a materials list for the task to help with implementation and organization; a Talking Points card with math vocabulary words and sentence stems to encourage mathematical discourse; and additional resources for each task.