Monday Must Reads: Volume 4

Things convey been pretty placidity on the spider web log front end since the last book of Mon Must Reads. I had multiple posts I wanted to write, but I had to exercise some tough dear in addition to non allow myself write whatever to a greater extent than spider web log posts until my nation instructor of the twelvemonth application was finished. I'm cheating a flake past times writing this spider web log postal service today because my application withal isn't technically finished, but it's finished plenty that I could submit it if it wasn't for my perfectionism. I've withal got lots of edits to brand on my vii (!) essays. It turns out that my writing agency is a flake to a greater extent than wordy than what the commission is looking for. Each essay has a maximum length of solely i or 2 double-spaced pages amongst 12 signal font in addition to i inch margins. That's non a lot of room!

I approximate I do demand to truly brand lift on this spider web log that I was named both Drumright High School's Teacher of the Year in addition to Drumright Public Schools Teacher of the Year. The showtime award came amongst a cheque for $500 in addition to the mo award volition come upwardly amongst an additional $500 cheque in i lawsuit my Oklahoma Teacher of the Year application is submitted.

Without farther ado, hither are the spider web log posts in addition to tweets that I considered to live must reads this week.

Teach180 tweets. The snapshot she provides into her classroom is incredibly inspiring, in addition to I detect myself wanting to live a educatee inward her class! In a Teach180 tweets from the year. This classroom highlight reel is a process to read! And, you lot should definitely catch joining inward adjacent twelvemonth amongst the #Teach180 hashtag. I mightiness fifty-fifty convey to pocket Liz's persuasion in addition to create my ain spider web log postal service amongst my favorite tweets of the year. What an incredible agency to reverberate on the halt of i schoolhouse twelvemonth every bit nosotros start to laid for the next!

Norma Gordon created an awesome #SmudgedMath action involving interquartile hit in addition to box-and-whisker plots. I dear the educatee thinking required inward an action similar this. Norma's #SmudgedMath tasks tin live downloaded here.

Yah Lee's recent tweet virtually using a visual to assistance students solve equations has got me thinking a lot virtually how I desire to approach solving equations amongst my Algebra 1 students adjacent year. Last year, I used a combination of the menses nautical chart method in addition to the traditional approach. I would dear to acquire away from the traditional approach, but I likewise desire to brand certain that whichever approach I purpose tin live used when in that place are variables on both side of the equal sign.

I'm non certain this tweet from Fawn Nguyen needs an introduction. #TRUTH

Probability Bingo. My students dear this game in addition to acquire super competitive every fourth dimension nosotros play! Liz Mastalio late flora a agency to cook i of the most annoying aspects of the action past times using shapes instead of colors. It's in addition to then much easier to create 2 die for the action past times gluing on shapes instead of trying to color the die in addition to dealing amongst the colors rubbing off. Yes, I utter from experience.

Mr. B's tweet caught my optic because it helps illustrate a solution to a occupation many of my algebra students have. Most of my students tin solve this type of occupation inward their heads, but I've never been truly certain how to assistance those students who acquire by to empathize where the missing value is coming from.

I late had my showtime breakout box sense every bit business office of the Tulsa Math Teachers' Circle. I've been toying amongst using the persuasion inward my ain classroom, but I didn't desire to pass a lot of coin on a bunch of unlike locks. Nick Waldron created an action that caught my optic because it allows students to do lots of math practise but solely requires a unmarried lock.

I dear using logic puzzles inward my math class, but I oft convey issues amongst students trying to do a puzzle without showtime fully agreement the rules. Molly Rawding's novel approach to introducing KenKen puzzles is a bright agency to solve this problem!

If I e'er acquire the endangerment to learn statistics again, I definitely desire to detect a agency to acquire my hands on some of these stats stencils that Will Davies tweeted about. Can you lot tell I'm a flake anxious virtually the fact that I don't know what classes I'm instruction yet for adjacent year?

Jennifer Michaelis is making me wishing that I could learn trig in i lawsuit again adjacent year. How awesome are these plexi-glass graphs that allow for instant trig graph transformations?!?

For the iv years I taught Algebra 2, I taught my students that roots, solutions, zeros, in addition to x-intercepts were all the same thing. Today, I learned the truth cheers to David Butler. It makes in addition to then much sense, in addition to I wishing I could perish dorsum in addition to re-teach my one-time students why in that place are in addition to then many unlike words. Special cheers to Matt Enlow for taking David's tweet in addition to turning it into a catchy image!

And, here's Matt's awesome visual of this:

Image Source: https://twitter.com/CmonMattTHINK/status/866677313743835137/photo/1

And, that's all of the spider web log in addition to twitter awesomeness I convey until adjacent time. Remember, my Mon Must Reads postal service may acquire a flake sporadic over the summertime due to other obligations. Keep sharing, #MTBoS!