Showing posts with label Number Talks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Number Talks. Show all posts
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Monday Must Reads: Volume 14

Happy Monday! For me, it's an particularly happy Mon because it's alone a 2 twenty-four hr catamenia schoolhouse week. Granted, nurture instructor conferences on Mon nighttime AND Tuesday nighttime volition brand for a 2 twenty-four hr catamenia calendar week that feels incredibly loooooooonnnnngggg. I experience similar Fall Break is something I definitely demand inwards my life correct now. School has been exhausting lately. Fri night, I savage asleep on the couch earlier half dozen pm! I'm looking frontward to the adventure to residual as well as recharge as well as hence I tin hold out the best instructor possible for my students.

Seeing what other teachers are inwards their classrooms inspires as well as energizes me, as well as hence I'm excited to percentage this week's Mon Must Reads amongst you!


Here are the tweets as well as weblog posts I constitute most inspiring this week!

Hedge as well as Cononiah Watson combine a few basic solid items to create a powerful visual for students regarding diagonals of 3-D shapes.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/approx_normal/status/918981568366043138
I particularly similar how David Butler points out the fact that giving students an item of a fix length creates the demand for taping 2 of the objects together to create the longer diagonal!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/DavidKButlerUoA/status/918985640988917761

I'm e'er on the spotter for easy-to-implement classroom routines. I particularly similar this "Find my Rule" activity from Mrs. J m Clark. This could easily extend to as well as hence many topics!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mrsjmclark/status/913448475316166656

Mrs. J m Clark besides shares what she calls a "Back to Back Exercise." Students stand upwards amongst their backs to 1 some other as well as depict graphs spell their partner draws them. Then, they plough roughly as well as compare how unopen they were.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mrsjmclark/status/916280777033371648
Sally Watson shares some beautiful, mathematical artwork created past times her students. It was inspired past times the symmetries constitute inwards the Alhambra Palace. What a gorgeous classroom display!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/sallywatson77/status/918884571449569280
I honey watching shows similar The Great British Bake Off as well as The Great Australian Bake Off. So, I was super excited to encounter the twist that Rebecca Owen set on the traditional technical challenge amongst "The Great British Biology Off." How fun to frame a lab equally a technical challenge!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/owen_becca/status/918852196489486337
Stephanie Fote shares a means to encompass the thought of "color amongst a purpose" spell solving equations. LOVE it! I besides adore her sign which I'm assuming tin hold out flipped roughly to tell students whether or non they tin usage calculators for that day.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ms_fote/status/918949921440587776
Whenever I've taught trigonometry inwards the past, angles of elevation as well as depression lead hold e'er been 1 of the trickier topics to teach. I've constitute that it's difficult for students to visualize what the diagrams should hold off like. So, I'm a huge fan of how Elissa Miller has engaged her students amongst a diagram matching activity!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/misscalcul8/status/918942676053053440
Mrs. Taylor hosts a bumper sticker pattern competition. Her chosen topic was lab safety, simply this could hold out used for as well as hence many things. I honey that each submission is given a set out as well as hence that votes tin hold out tallied to select the winner!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrsTaylorROMS/status/917442870541520899
Kelsey Fladda shares 1 of the most awesome scatterplots I lead hold ever seen made inwards a math classroom.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MissFladdaMath/status/827214821657604097
I honey seeing how math is taught inwards other countries. So, looking through these Irish Gaelic geometry posters shared past times Card Colm Mulcahy is a truthful treat!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/918982845879799808

Martin Joyce shares a photograph of a resources he got from Lisa Bejarano. I used set out talks for component subdivision of final year, as well as I felt similar it was lacking a combat of structure.  I mean value a handout similar this would hold out PERFECT!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/martinsean/status/919008702706810882
Reena Bhatti doesn't learn math or science, simply her twitter feed is even as well as hence an inspiration to me equally a math/science teacher. I would honey to accept this balloon activity as well as usage it during our upcoming unit of measurement on relations as well as functions!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/reenateacha/status/884865315166924800
I'm besides super inspired past times Reena's interactive notebook pages!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/reenateacha/status/880720326442799105
Sterling Bristow takes the shape loving cup stacking activity to a novel marking past times having students create their ain loving cup designs!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/BristowSterling/status/918928791551950848
Sterling besides shared a peachy construction activity for geometry students involving the flag of Nepal!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/BristowSterling/status/913880969878401024
Elyssa Stoddard presents a fun activity for geometry teachers to usage spell working amongst angles.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/math_stodd/status/918899405830459392
Julie Morgan shares a fun as well as slow to implement review game on her blog, Fraction Fanatic. I honey that this game tin hold out used amongst ANY topic, as well as it doesn't require whatever existent prep time. Julie uses questions on cards that exercise accept fourth dimension to make, simply inwards a pinch you lot could usage whatever worksheet you lot constitute online!

Volume xiii of Mon Must Reads for her creative mini poster presentations. I was super excited to encounter the finished production on twitter this week! Plus, she fifty-fifty wrote a weblog post service amongst to a greater extent than information which you lot tin uncovering here.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/biobythemathmom/status/918109926546866176
Halcyon Foster uses die as well as newspaper strips to create an engaging activity that has students exploring the triangle inequality theorem.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/halcyonfoster/status/917828280392101888

Here are a few to a greater extent than details nearly how this activity works:

Gina Ging brilliantly uses a newspaper plate to learn circle vocabulary.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/KlineGina/status/865586987855728642
Stephanie Ling shares an awesome approach to educational activity equation solving. I honey the emphasis on solving equations that mightiness hold off the same at start glance simply are totally different.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ling_stephanie/status/917892323249287168
blog for to a greater extent than details!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/rickbrlw/status/917873851320508416
Jennifer Williams combines football game as well as functions for a fun activity. I demand to learn my hands on some footballs earlier nosotros start functions inwards Algebra 1!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/jlwilliams314/status/915318281170571264
 Paul shares some awesome increment mindset statements to impress on mucilaginous notes.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/tips4teachingUK/status/917116783940816901
Casey McCormick asked her students to write nearly what a mathematician is. The results are priceless.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/cmmteach/status/917494796519849985

Image Source: https://twitter.com/cmmteach/status/917495465616203776
Gwen Bergman keeps a running listing inwards her classroom of all the uses they lead hold come upwards up amongst for Desmos!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/gwen_bergman/status/917482015401873414
And, that's it until side past times side week. Keep upwards the peachy sharing of ideas!

Monday Must Reads: Volume 15

Happy Monday! It's the Mon afterward Fall Break hither inwards Oklahoma which way that schoolhouse is dorsum inwards session whether nosotros are create for it or not. I'm create to learn dorsum into the activeness of things too force my kids equally nosotros motion towards our side past times side big break: Thanksgiving break. We didn't brand quite equally much progress equally I would cause got liked inwards Algebra 1 during the offset quarter of the schoolhouse year, too then I'm hoping to brand upwards unopen to terra firma earlier Christmas!

As I produce almost every Monday, today I'm sharing ideas I cause got industrial plant life inspiring from both my twitter feed too my rss reader.

Math-y Welcome Banner that has live past times of 1 my most favorite classroom decorations ever. Two other math teachers cause got helped to fill upwards out the remainder of the math alphabet. And, they've freely shared their creations too then you lot tin order the axe usage them to piece out whatsoever give-and-take you lot would like!


Image Source: https://twitter.com/strom_win/status/921458989358923776



Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrsKimMcKee/status/760176948463169536
Nanette Johnson tweets a fun lay out speak thought from How We Teach for secondary students. You tin order the axe detect out to a greater extent than nearly this presentation here. 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Math_m_Addicts/status/921036267806216192

Image Source: https://twitter.com/sarahnewtonmath/status/921336853353189376
David Butler sums upwards too then much of what didactics is inwards 1 brusk tweet. 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/DavidKButlerUoA/status/921203021148594176
Kate McNabb's classroom looks fab amongst her novel student-created atomic decorations. 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/k8mcnabb/status/921136747995475969
Gwen Bergman engages her students from BEFORE the instant they walk inwards her classroom past times challenging them to answer a inquiry to gain entrance to the classroom. I beloved how she created a lay out occupation on her door to assist students amongst their questions! 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/gwen_bergman/status/921153306591981572
I've seen enough of teachers model the existent lay out organization using boxes before. But, Jim Olsen is the offset instructor I've seen to usage bags. Brilliant! 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/DrOlsen314/status/921161767883100161
Megan Schmidt encourages teachers to brand their ain classroom decor. What a beautiful slice of math art! 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Veganmathbeagle/status/921009614539382786
Leyla Pattison takes chromatography upwards a notch past times having students create chromatography trolls. How cute!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/leyla_pattison/status/915301921984008192
Jacqueline Richardson shares a creative thought for the terminate of the quarter/semester: Paper Plate Awards. 

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 Laura Wheeler takes an interesting approach to a math occupation involving renting a banquet hall. 

Image Source: https://mslwheeler.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/banquet-hall-problem-mfm2p-pbl/
Luke Wilcox shares an interesting statistics chore that begins amongst an intriguing question: Does Beyonce write her ain lyrics? 

Image Source: http://thestatsmedic.com/2017/10/10/does-beyonce-write-her-own-lyrics/

Until side past times side week, live past times on sharing awesome ideas!