Monday Must Reads: Volume 3

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My end professional person twenty-four lx minutes menses of the yr is finished.  Grades are turned in.  And, I've already started throwing out all my extra quizzes from this yr to clear out the filing cabinet for side past times side year.


It's likewise Mon which agency it's fourth dimension for Volume three of Mon Must Reads.  I've been trying to write 1 of these round-up posts each Monday, but my posting mightiness last a flake to a greater extent than sporadic equally summertime starts.  I promise to alternative upward a regular Mon posting schedule 1 time to a greater extent than 1 time schoolhouse starts dorsum inwards August.

Here are the weblog posts that I deemed equally "must reads" this past times week.  Have a weblog post or tweet that you lot cry back needs to last read?  Leave a comment below!

resources she created for instruction systems of equations.  I included her tweet well-nigh creating a dry out erase template for the elimination method inwards Volume two of Mon Must Reads, thus I wanted to hand everyone a heads-up that she is sharing the file for costless (plus several other files) on her blog!

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poem she wrote for her AP Calculus students.  It was such a fun read, together with I tin flame state that she pose a lot of fourth dimension together with attempt into it!  I won't include the whole poetry form hither thus you'll accept to click over together with read it on her blog, but I'll part my favorite stanza alongside you.  The end business is the best!

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great post well-nigh coming to meliorate empathise how the box method industrial plant for factoring polynomials.  The regain she discusses making was 1 I was forced to regain a few years agone when Shaun kept pressing me to answer the enquiry "Why?" inwards regards to how nosotros know how to fill upward out the box.  If our students don't empathise where the dissimilar numbers are coming from inwards the box method, together with then it's a fob that's no meliorate than the FOIL method.

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Dan Rodriguez-Clark shares a bunch of swell ideas to larn students to meet the fun, creative side of math(s).  The activities he shares inwards his post are a summary of what his schoolhouse did to celebrate "Maths Week" inwards Peru.  The activeness that outset caught my optic was a murder mystery activeness called "Who Killed Mr. Dipentagram? past times dave789 on TES.  I was able to impress off the resources together with implement it alongside 1 of my classes on the exact twenty-four lx minutes menses I discovered his weblog post.  How awesome is that?!? That was only 1 of the ideas shared.  I highly propose you lot cheque out all 8 of his ideas for engaging students inwards doing math(s).

Kate's Classroom Cafe shared an awesome organizational fob that I am definitely going to move side past times side year.  It's thus uncomplicated together with effective that I'm embarrassed I didn't come upward up alongside it myself.  Do you lot accept problem finding materials inwards your hanging files?  Kate has got the solution.  Thanks to Kelly for posting a painting exhibit of your organized files on twitter to inspire me!