Back to School First Day Getting to Know You Activity: Math All About Me T-Shirt

Are you looking for First Day of School Math Activities or Back to School Bulletin Board ideas? Let your students (Elementary, Middle, or High School) express themselves with this “20,000 Pieces of Me” hands-on Geometry Math & Art project during the creation of a colorful and mathematical representation of who they are. It's a T-shirt made out of polygons.

It's a great Get to Know You Math Activity for the First Day of School, Back to School, Summer Camp, Summer School, or it can be used at any time of the year.

Embark on a creative journey to get to know yourself and your classmates!

Create your own "20,000 pieces of me T-shirt".

Inspired by the Quadraturians, an advanced alien civilization that understands the universe in 20,000 pieces, this activity combines creativity with math, perfect for Back to School season.

The Quadraturians discovered a magical way to truly understand someone’s essence by breaking down their identity into 20,000 parts.

• Each student will receive a pre-drawn T-shirt divided into various sections (polygons).
• Their task is to assign different aspects to these sections that tell something about them, such as their favorite foods, books, movies, dreams or goals, character traits, hobbies, etc.
• Assign more pieces to the aspects that hold greater significance in your life.
• Then color them, and optionally calculate their areas, and express them as percentages of the whole T-shirt.

You can use the completed activities to make a mural, door decoration, or bulletin board display.

There are differentiated versions to choose from:

• A blank T-shirt template divided into 20 sections.
• A T-shirt template with the area of each section given in square units. Students can check if their total is 20,000.
• A T-shirt template with values for areas of 19 out of 20 sections given. Students must calculate the area of the missing part by adding 3 and 4 digit numbers and subtracting from 20,000.
• A T-shirt template to calculate the area of each section in square units.
• A T-shirt template to calculate the area of each section of the T-shirt as a percentage of the whole T-shirt. *percentage results have 2 decimal places
• A T-shirt template to calculate the area of each section in square units, and express them as percentages of the whole T-shirt.
• A T-shirt template with signed names of shapes.

This resource includes:

- The editable PowerPoint™ version. The file is completely editable, so you can use it in many different ways.

- The printable version in PDF with an example of a completed project.

2 options: with a space as the thousands separator, and with a comma as the thousands separator.

Check out Inspire Math Matematyka for more resources.