Monday Must Reads: Volume 5

It seems similar it was simply yesterday that I decided to laid about Mon Must Reads every bit a weekly characteristic to highlight the awesomeness I run across daily through the blogs I read as well as the inspiring teachers I follow on Twitter.

Rick Barlow's tweet caught my oculus non because of what the pupil had written on the board but because of the poster hanging higher upward the dry out erase board. I intend this poster belongs inward every math classroom. This is definitely on my listing of posters to exercise for my classroom for adjacent year.

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most recent number of Mon Must Reads, I featured a visual representation for solving equations. I wondered how it powerfulness piece of work alongside equations that accept variables on both sides. Yah Lee answered my inquiry alongside a visual model that does simply that! I've played or as well as then alongside it, as well as I similar it. The alone affair I can't figure out how to exercise at in 1 trial is illustrate an equation that involves subtraction 1 one side of the equal sign as well as add-on on the other side.

I was outset introduced to Conway's Rational Tangles occupation through a summertime immersion programme hosted past times the Tulsa Math Teachers' Circle. interactive notebook pages for angles formed past times secants as well as tangents. I dearest how she encouraged her particular students to hold out 2 small-scale pieces of newspaper to improve visualize the arcs as well as angles. I intend this is a strategy that all students could exercise goodness from!

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I also dearest the vinyl ornamentation she created for her mug!

Maths teachers inward the U.K. accept been honouring the belatedly Malcolm Swan's contributions to maths pedagogy past times using his resources inward their classrooms on #malcolmswanday. Pip Mathematics shared a dandy Swan chore that I await forrad to incorporating when my Algebra 1 students tackle evaluating expressions inward the fall.

Theressa Engel shared students' results to a problem-solving chore I would dearest to endeavour out alongside my ain students: exercise the longest chain possible from a unmarried canvass of paper. I'm thinking this would brand a dandy outset calendar week of schoolhouse activity!

Sam Shah late shared a brilliant introduction to the unit of measurement circle inward trigonometry using every shape but a circle!

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Susan Russo took the traditional spaghetti activity for graphing sine as well as cosine curves a laid upward further past times hanging them side-by-side to exercise a beautifully long graph.