Questions & Activities to Make Math Better.
As I was perusing Twitter last week, I came across someone asking if their activity could be made into a Google Slide. For some reason I cannot resist the urge to "see if I can do it"!!! [On a side note, self care tells me I really SHOULD resist this urge ☺️] So I did… Continue reading Digital Decks of Cards
Decorations. Really?! Yes, because this is where I'm at right now. We have been teaching in a remote environment since school started. Not because of Covid but because we had black mold growing in our building and it had to be gutted and cleaned. I returned to my classroom Monday to take stock of what… Continue reading Decorations
Student reflection is so very important! If we want students to see learning as a process and not and one and done situation, then we need to provide them ways to reflect on their learning. This is an idea that I have used in my face-to-face classes and it has also been successful in my… Continue reading Reflection
I am not a paperless classroom. As I say in my book, use technology if it makes your job easierit makes the learning better for students. So why a digital flipbook? Well, it's actually not just one reason. We have to go remote this fall, not because of Covid but because we have "spores" in… Continue reading Geometry Flipbook
This summer I have spent some (a lot) of my time writing curriculum for our Virtual Academy. One thing I have focused on is multiple representations of the content for each concept. I'm hoping to better meet the needs of all my learners. I broke by options into two categories, Read and Watch (Listen). Students… Continue reading Multiple Representations for Leaners
In this season of virtual learning, digital manipulatives are more important than ever. There are a few I have used over the years in my own classroom like the protractor, ruler, algebra tiles, and algebra balance scale. I created them to fulfill a need in my class. My students can't always purchase these supplies, or… Continue reading Digital Manipulatives
I have been using the Geometric Town project for years. You can read about it from my original post and also obtain the non-digital version. During this crazy Covid-19 quarantine, I've been updating my activities to make them more virtual learning friendly. In this situation, I gave students the choice to complete this activity digitally… Continue reading Geometric Town Virtual Learning Update
I LOVE GOOGLE DRAWING!!! If you've been around here for awhile, you know how much I use Drawing or the Drawing features in slides. This post is dedicated to how I use Google Drawing to create my own images for activities and assessments. Google Drawing will download as a transparent .PNG image. It's vector based,… Continue reading Creating Math Images in Google Drawing
Have you seen a teenagers backpack? Three weeks into school and the protractor I asked them to buy is already in pieces in the bottom of their backpack. Books, binders, and a computer have been shoved into that backpack and the protractor is now broken. Or maybe they couldn't afford school supplies to begin with.… Continue reading Digital Manipulatives
This is one of those activities I do in my classroom every year after we learn about equations of circles. Well... most of my kiddos don't have a compass at home so I came up with a Google Slides way to do this. I even included an animation on the 2nd page to show students… Continue reading Equations of Circles- Distance Learning Style
Make Math Not Suck 