Monday Must Reads

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Showing posts with label Monday Must Reads. Show all posts
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 3

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!


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!


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 6

I've been taking a suspension from Monday Must Reads this summertime because I've been out of the province together with accept had real express network access. Now that I'm dorsum inwards the states, it's fourth dimension to grab upward on my RSS feed reader. There's no promise of catching upward on twitter, together with thence I'm non fifty-fifty going to try. That agency this mass volition hold out heavy on the spider web log posts together with lighter on the tweets.

Here are the posts that stood out to me that I scream upward powerfulness hold out of involvement to you!

Jacqueline Richardson led an awesome presentation on using interactive notebooks inwards the secondary math classroom together with she blogged close it with tons of pretty pictures that brand my catch happy.

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recent post, Don shares a slide where he challenges students to describe a business perpendicular to about other business that goes through a certainly point.  Before I always get-go talking close the rules for parallel/perpendicular adjacent year, I'm going to larn my students drawing.  I can't wait!  

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Quarter The Cross amongst 2 groups of students. I honey seeing what my students come upward up with. Often, they scream upward close the chore inwards a way I haven't which is super exciting. David Butler has shared yet about other awesome Quarter The Cross resources amongst the earth inwards a recent tweet. I scream upward this would hold out perfect to role amongst students on a 2nd run through of the action afterward they've had a adventure to sympathise the chore together with practise about of their own. 

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I know this adjacent tweet is science-y, but I scream upward math-y teachers could notice a way to notwithstanding adjust it to their classrooms. Plus, instantly that I'm a certified chemical scientific discipline teacher, you're going to accept to seat upward amongst to a greater extent than scientific discipline stuff on this blog! I honey this earlier together with afterward post-it action that was tweeted past times Kate Atherton. What a creative way to larn students interacting amongst the material! 

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As a kid, I loved making designs from perler beads (affiliate link)ve. My sis together with I would pass hours making our designs "just perfect." Then, my mom would piece of job out the Fe together with melt the beads together. I jurist this is why I was super excited to encounter perler beads beingness used inwards a math lesson on twitter. Aileen Kelly shares how she uses the beads to accept students brand designs amongst symmetry. I don't learn geometry at the moment, but if I did I powerfulness challenge students to brand designs amongst dissimilar types of symmetry. 

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That's it until adjacent time!  Thanks for reading!