Printable Number Line Banners

We coloured the even numbers blue, odd
numbers green, and the tens red.

While teaching multiplication, I thought it would be handy to have a number line across the front of the classroom to show students skip-counting. The problem is, I am feeling cheap these days and I don't want to spend money at those expensive teacher stores (though I am sure they have lots of colourful options). So, I turned to Google!

I came across a website called SparkleBox that features printable number lines of all sorts. You can print the pages of the PDF and then glue the number line into a banner - it works a lot like the "Outstanding Chart" I created. There are lots of different number line options to choose from filled with colour. Of course, my school does not have a colour printer, so I printed my number line off in greyscale and had my student teacher help me colour it in with markers. To make sure our work wasn't for naught, we laminated it to keep it around for a long while.

It was a lot of work to get this thing up, but the hour spent printing, colouring, gluing, cutting, and laminating was shorter than driving across town to buy a similar thing. The next day, my students noticed... job well done!