Geometry

Showing posts with label Geometry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geometry. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Always, Sometimes, or Never? Resources for Math Class

After successfully using Always, Sometimes, or Never? to assistance my students hit a ameliorate conceptual agreement of the measures of fundamental style (link to spider web log post), I began to wonder what other math topics I could utilisation the Always, Sometimes, or Never? construction with.


I spent utilisation of an even out googling for resources.  I idea I should part my findings alongside yous guys equally well.  Have yous used Always, Sometimes, or Never? to review other concepts?  Please piece of job out a comment!

Algebraic Properties


Angles


Miscellaneous


Negatives


Number Sense


Parallel together with Perpendicular Lines


Points, Lines, together with Planes


Quadrilaterals


Rational together with Irrational Numbers


Similarity


Transformations


Trig


Saturday, October 28, 2017

Monday Must Reads: Volume 2

It's difficult to believe it's already been a calendar week since my first mass of Mon Must Reads.  Since the final mass was received thence positively, I'm dorsum today amongst mass 2!  The finish of this weblog serial is to highlight some of my favorite weblog in addition to twitter reads that I cry upwards are worth sharing.

  

Last week, I discovered the Pie Says No (@pie_says_no) Twitter account, in addition to it's definitely worth a follow.  The occupation organization human relationship regularly tweets cringe-worthy pie charts (and other information visualizations).  These are perfect for showing students what NOT to do!  Here's my favorite one:


Fawn Nguyen's recent post service near Solving an Equation amongst a Fraction has me thinking a lot near how I desire to construction my solving equations unit of measurement for side past times side year's Algebra 1 class.  I bespeak to focus less on mindlessly manipulating equations in addition to focus to a greater extent than on a conceptual agreement of what equations genuinely mean.

here.  I await frontward to genuinely having my students construct the towers side past times side year!      

Megan Lonsdale tweeted a moving painting of a display she had her students do amongst information from flipping a money in addition to finding the experimental probability of the money landing on heads.  I talked amongst my Algebra 1 students this twelvemonth how experimental probability approaches theoretical probability every bit the unwrap of trials is increased, but I honey how Megan SHOWED this to her students instead of simply telling them.  I peculiarly honey the role of record to demo where the theoretical probability lies in addition to the role of private stickers to stand upwards for experimental probabilities.  Definitely stealing this side past times side year!   Want to run into the poster inward greater detail?  Check out this link.  


Karl Lippa has me really intrigued amongst this tweet about having his students participate inward Opposite Hand Olympics inward Algebra 1.  You MUST click through the link to a higher house to sentry the video of students trying to residual marbles on a textbook.  It looks similar thence much fun!  The screenshot I'm posting below simply doesn't capture the awesomeness of the entire video.    


Teach180 tweets!  I honey this punch carte du jour activity that she created for trigonometric equations.  I've used punch cards i time before, in addition to they worked well.  I bespeak this reminder to seat punch carte du jour activities into my normal pedagogy rotation. 


    
I likewise honey Sarah Newton's role of a Venn Diagram to practise polynomial vocabulary!  My Algebra 1 students convey been struggling a chip amongst Venn Diagrams inward our probability unit, thence I cry upwards that incorporating them before inward the twelvemonth would live on genuinely helpful to them.


I don't learn geometry, but Kerri Sustich's Circumference or Area? activity that she posted on Twitter definitely caught my eye.  So often, nosotros practise all of i type of occupation thence all of some other type of problem.  This activity gets students thinking near 2 types of problems at the same time.  I tin transportation away definitely run into applying this same practise construction to other math topics!

  

dry erase templates for pedagogy polynomials using the box method!


That's it until side past times side week!  Read whatever "must reads" lately?  Share them inward the comments!

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.


set of dry out erase pockets, yous demand to exercise as well as then now! Check out this awesomeness:






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. 


Andrew Jensen shared a vivid geometry chore regarding wasted packaging space.  




Until adjacent time, proceed sharing!


Monday Must Reads: Volume 8

It's difficult to believe it's already fourth dimension for some other Mon Must Reads!  Hope all of my the U.S. friends are having a lovely hateful solar daytime off for Labor Day. No affair where yous are located, I promise yous discovery an inspiring persuasion to utilization inwards your classroom!


Kay Kubena's twitter delineate of piece of work concern human relationship is amount of hands-on activities for collecting statistics data. If yous instruct AP stats (or non-AP stats!), her delineate of piece of work concern human relationship is a must-see. I'm non education stats this year, but my hubby is. So, I'm nevertheless on the lookout adult man for fun stats activities. Does the holler construct Lucky Charms stimulate got significantly to a greater extent than marshmallows than the Wal-mart brand? I kinda desire to purchase 2 boxes to discovery out for myself!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/KubenaKay/status/888495065794060288
Adrianne Burns has an awesome classroom display well-nigh what mathematicians do. The conversation it sparked amongst her tyke is PRICELESS. All students demand to know that making mistakes is business office of existence a mathematician!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/a_schindy/status/903647658383998976
FCMathLab shares a new-to-me collaboration chore for the start calendar week of school: the lawn tennis ball transfer activity. This looks super fun! I dear that students are given a bunch of options of materials to use.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/FCMathLAB/status/903079117356183555
Justin Guadagni adds a few to a greater extent than details well-nigh what the chore entails:

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrGuads/status/903731837486452736
Amanda Thom shares a keen activity for education logic inwards geometry courses that involves looking at real-world advertisements. I peculiarly dear the Walgreens one!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Athompson203/status/903747870268035072
I absolutely dear the questions that Damion Beth poses to his students on the start hateful solar daytime of school.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/DamionBeth/status/903423556033400832
Looking for a agency to organize groups inwards your classroom? FCMathLab shares a photograph from Mr. Guadagni's classroom of grouping clipboards as well as move lanyards. Brilliant!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/FCMathLAB/status/903071775659098112
I dear finding ways to stimulate got students sense things for themselves instead of merely reading well-nigh it or listening to me verbalize well-nigh it. There's no agency that I tin stimulate got my chemical scientific discipline students re-enact Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment, but I mean value nosotros tin check inwards some fourth dimension for atomic bowling! Thanks Mrs. Geyer's Class for sharing!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/GeyerChem/status/837834118792687616
 Looking for a fun information collection idea? And peradventure a yummy one, too? Julie Steiner suggests stacking oreos.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/TollesSteiner/status/903285473531109376
I dear how Jackie Stone helped a geometry work come upwardly hold out inwards her classroom past times posting points or thence the room that corresponded amongst a work they were solving.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MathEdJax/status/903324446462791682
Jazmine Castanon created a beautiful increase mindset display inwards her classroom using Famous Failures. I mean value this would hold out beneficial for every classroom. I dear that students read well-nigh the failure start as well as then elevator the flap to break the success the someone afterward became!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/jcast301/status/903049784168243201
Ms. Molley had her students exercise their ain categories to class shapes equally an introduction to geometry earlier looking at the classifications flora inwards the book.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ms_molley/status/902890106666680320
Liz Mastalio's students created life plans inwards Advisory. I mean value this is an awesome agency to larn students thinking well-nigh the future. I also run across keen potential inwards this activity for working amongst percents!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MissMastalio/status/902926200972218368
Destinee Johnson gave her students some Harvey related Dimensional Analysis questions to larn them thinking well-nigh how they tin attention the victims.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/msjohnsonchem/status/902931185113935873
Teaching geometric sequences? Have students model the behave on of a chain missive of the alphabet similar Randy Revels, Jr. did! I can't hold off to exercise this when nosotros larn to sequences inwards Algebra 1 this year.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/revs_87/status/902938678191935488

I dear this quote shared past times Jen Hornsby Beach. This needs to construct an appearance inwards my classroom!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mrsjbeach/status/902725691573198849
Sue Runge tapes increase mindset statements to each students' desk. I dear the atmosphere this creates!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/BCLUWmath/status/902655902062436352
Julie Morgan shares a keen activity for practicing factoring - the Common Factor Clock.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/fractionfanatic/status/875394718703771648
Four Fours is ane of my favorite activities to exercise amongst students. So, I was super excited to run across this bulletin board created past times Paul Smith! I dear how this recognizes multiple solutions.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/drpas1001/status/901059003022811137

Math jokes are kinda my thing. I was super excited to discovery this novel math joke from Kacey Norojo.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/KcNorojo/status/901260962350727168


Five Good Things

It's the final 24-hour interval of a 3 24-hour interval weekend. I have got to acknowledge that this makes me a piffling sad. As much equally I honey schoolhouse together with teaching, nosotros all demand a combat of a interruption instantly together with again. To cheer myself up, I'm going to weblog virtually v skillful things that have got happened recently. 

1. GEOMETILES
Friday, I got a laid of Geometiles (affiliate link) inward the mail. The makers of Geometiles contacted me via my weblog to inquire if I would hold upwardly willing to write a review inward telephone substitution for a costless set. Of course, I said yes! My review isn't due until October, together with thence I've got a amount calendar month of playing ahead of me to prepare!



2. BASE TEN BLOCKS

I real received 2 shipments on Friday. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 calendar month or together with thence ago, NAEIR had Base 10 Blocks on their website for super cheap. 10 sets for $4 cheap! Even though I learn high school, I decided to invest inward a set. I intend these volition larn lots of usage amongst my math concepts students when nosotros review decimals after this year.


3. FEELING BETTER

Somehow, I managed to come upwardly downward amongst a mutual frigidity during the minute calendar week of school. Usually, my immune arrangement holds off until Oct to larn sick. Not this year! This was a double bummer because it feels similar I simply got over the mutual frigidity I had inward July when nosotros were inward Australia. But, I'm feeling much, much amend already. I've fifty-fifty managed to larn closed to schoolhouse move done over the weekend. 


4. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 FUN MATH PUZZLE + VISIT FROM Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 RABBIT

Friday, I was NOT feeling well. See #3 above. You know it's obvious that you're sick when a pupil walks inward the room together with asks "Why is your olfactory organ red?" Nice to run into you, too. I couldn't comport for my Algebra 1 students to larn behind, together with thence I pushed through our gild of operations lesson fifty-fifty though I was NOT feeling it. I did laissez passer myself closed to grace together with accept it slowly amongst my math concepts together with chemical scientific discipline classes. We did the Crazy Eights puzzle from School of Fisher. And, the biological scientific discipline bunny came to see for role of the class menstruation inward chemistry.


5. ALL MY LESSONS ARE PLANNED FOR THIS WEEK!

For my entire educational activity career, I have got been a final infinitesimal planner. This year, I'm trying to rest ahead. So, each weekend, I've been writing out my lesson plans for the upcoming week, creating whatsoever foldables, activities, etc., together with creating my SMARTboard files for the ENTIRE week. I nevertheless have got to practice a combat of tweaking from 24-hour interval to day, but it feels together with thence skillful to larn to schoolhouse inward the forenoon together with know that I don't have got a 1000000 things to practice simply to larn create for the day. I'm starting to experience genuinely organized for the origin fourth dimension ever!