This is an exploratory lesson for inequalities and absolute value. It involves questioning and students demonstrating their understanding with a visual. I find it difficult to script my question writing because I take cues from my students, but hopefully, this will be a good place to start. You will be tempted to show your students… Continue reading Questions for Inequalities lesson
Author: Mandi
Two Truths & a Lie
Who doesn't love two truths and a lie? I picked up this idea from a fellow teacher. She doesn't tweet but I want to give a shout out to Ms. Wood for this one. We started doing this during the comparing functions unit but you could do this with any unit. Imagine solving equations where… Continue reading Two Truths & a Lie
Transformation Comics
This is a lesson that I originally found here. It has gone through many iterations. You can see the progression of these on my sister blog Infinitely Teaching if you want a paper version of this project. I love this project because students have to take the transformation words and work them into their comic. They also… Continue reading Transformation Comics
Choose Your Own Adventure
This has become one of my favorite projects to do. I stole the idea from Matt Miller in his book Ditch That Textbook. As Alice Keeler often says, you shouldn't have 30 of the exact same thing and with this project, you have 30 unique stories. I've done this with Algebra when we review solving… Continue reading Choose Your Own Adventure
Geometric Town Project
This is a culminating project that we do in Geometry. It was originally created by a colleague of mine who has since retired. It has gone through many revisions over the past 6 year. I love that it reviews parallel line angle relationships, equations of lines, properties of quadrilaterals, perimeter & area and equations of circles.… Continue reading Geometric Town Project
Order of Operations in Google Sheets
I look for real reasons for why we use math. Students can spot BS from a mile away, probably because it STINKS! A few years ago, I realized that a spreadsheet was a great way to explore order of operations. We have to tell technology how we want it to process numbers. If we don’t,… Continue reading Order of Operations in Google Sheets
#mathsnaps
#booksnaps came from the incredible Tara Martin who decided to take Snapchat and have student annotate information from books. I loved it! Then I wanted to know how I could use this in math class. I was so excited when I coined the phrase #mathsnaps only to have Tara tell me someone else already beat… Continue reading #mathsnaps
Catapult Activity
While researching for our parabola unit I stumbled upon the project posted by Julie Reulbach on her blog I Speak Math. If you don’t follow her on Twitter, you should! I adapted her activity a little to make it go along with Clash of Clans and carried the theme throughout the activity. I shot the… Continue reading Catapult Activity
Solving Equations Questions
When we began our first unit in Algebra we wanted to set the stage for good questioning and not just wrote note taking. Here are a few of the questions we used with our table groups so students would talk and form knowledge about what we were learning. We encourage students to debate with each… Continue reading Solving Equations Questions
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