Math stations fail for one reason: students don’t know what to do when the timer ends. This kit fixes that — the management system and the materials in one place, built the way it’s actually run in a middle-school classroom.
**What’s inside (31-page PDF + timer slides):**
– **The station system (pp. 3–4):** the four stations (teacher table, task cards, practice, anchor), rotation timing, student jobs that rotate weekly, the first-week rollout plan day by day, and troubleshooting for the four problems every teacher hits.
– **4 printable rotation charts (pp. 5–8):** 4-station (recommended), 3-station, 5-station, and must-do/may-do flexible — each with a dry-erase-friendly “today’s schedule” row. Post the one that matches your room.
– **Station group roster (pp. 9–10):** weekly group assignments with jobs and regrouping notes.
– **20 station task cards (pp. 12–21):** print-and-play cards across grades 6–8 — ratios, fractions, decimals, integers, order of operations, expressions, equations, percents, area, volume, circles, mean/median/mode, probability, and a challenge mix. Two per page with cut lines; name and date lines on every card.
– **Answer keys (pp. 22–24):** every answer computed and verified — keep this section for yourself or post it at the checker station after the round.
– **Anchor activity pack (pp. 25–27):** the anchor rules plus a Number of the Day template and a Find-the-Error sheet (with key) — early-finisher-proof work that never needs you.
– **Noise-level poster (p. 28):** the 0-to-3 scale. Print big, post by the door, point at it instead of raising your voice.
– **Small-group planning template (pp. 29–30):** plan your teacher-table station — skill target, students, mini-lesson, exit check.
– **Timer slides (separate files):** 11 projection slides — 5/10/12/15/20/25-minute countdown displays, 2-minute warning, rotate, clean up, and anchor-time slides. PDF plus PowerPoint (.pptx imports straight into Google Slides).
**Who it’s for:** Grades 6–8 math teachers who want stations that run themselves — especially teachers in under-resourced schools who can’t buy a boxed curriculum. Built for real classrooms: prints cleanly in black and white, 11pt+ type throughout, generous margins.
**License:** Single-classroom use. Print and reuse with your own students year after year. (Full terms on the last page of the PDF.)