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My friend and colleague learned how to make digital escape rooms from me. You all don't have me next to you everyday so you can learn from my post on Ditch That Textbook. This is the second escape room she has made. She's getting pretty good at them! I plan to use this one as… Continue reading Equations of Lines and Circles Digital Escape Room
I created this activity last year to review equations of lines and learning about equations of circles. It was completed in groups by table but the delivery was mostly work at their own pace. Well, this was perfect for distance learning. I changed from groups to individual, added some Google Forms practice checks that students… Continue reading Donkey Kong Break In Distance Learning Style
Wow, what a crazy time! Covid-19 has turned our world upside down. I saw a post today commending other teachers for providing their resources for free during this time. It shouldn't take a pandemic for us to take care of each other. I have always provided everything for free. We need to support each other… Continue reading Algebra Practice for Virtual Learning
Installment three of the area, surface area, and volume application problems. I know some of you have been using these and I hope they are working out well. Area application can be found here. Surface area application can be found here. In this post I have included volume application problems and application for surface area… Continue reading Volume and Spheres Application
I love taking boring problems from the book and turning them into fun learning experiences. A boring word problem was the beginning of this task. The actual prompt (which I can't seem to find anymore) gave two popcorn containers, one a cylinder and one a cone, and asked the relationship between the volumes. I saw… Continue reading Creating Popcorn Containers
I posted some area application problems last week. You can find that post here. I also promised some surface area problems, so here you go. One page is many different problems that you could use as an assignment, assessment, or problem of the day. The second one is one problem broken up into 5 days,… Continue reading Application for Surface Area
In Geometry, we teach area as a quick review before surface area and volume. This year, I wanted this topic to be more of a life skill than just a review. I taught students how to use Google cards to find the area of common shapes. A quick search will pull up the following card… Continue reading Application for Area
I saw this activity on Facebook last year. I don't know who the teacher is, but the project is posted on North Central Parke Community School Corporation Facebook page. I created the instructional slide below to facilitate the process with my students. Students had to select an object in the classroom to enlarge or reduce.… Continue reading Honey, I Shrunk the Classroom
I've always had my students draw in the lines and explore the interior and exterior angles of a polygon, but they struggle with drawing the lines. Many students try to draw lines from every angle to every other angle and you end up with a spiderweb mess. We also spend so much time on the… Continue reading Exploring Interior & Exterior Angles of Polygons
I stumbled across this post on Twitter by @joliboucher and I loved the idea of creating Mad Libs in a Google Sheet. I teach math, so I wanted a way to incorporate this into my class. I have a review coming up this week and it seemed like a perfect way to make a self-checking review.… Continue reading Mad Libs Review
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