Questions & Activities to Make Math Better.
Matt Miller had a guest post on his blog a while back by John Meehan on a game concept called QR BreakIN. I love to create BreakOUT games so this idea had me intrigued. John's graphics were amazing and the game boards looked fun. I pondered how to use it in my math classroom for… Continue reading Break-In Game
I love when you create a project that students are excited about! This project fits that description. We review area formulas in Geometry before we start surface area. I DID NOT WANT another "look up the formula" day. It's boring! And, if I don't like it, students won't either. Then I stumbled across this post… Continue reading Area App with Google Slides
For the last 9 years, I've had students do a Trig project where they use handmade clinometers to measure the height of an object taller than they are. I love this project because it shows the application of Trig and guides students through a thought process to solve this type of problem. This year I… Continue reading Student Created Trig Word Problems
This idea came from Alice Keeler and the late Diana Herrington's book Teaching Math with Google Apps. I have wanted to implement it for some time and even had some conversations with Alice about how she is currently using it. This year I finally created some. The whole point behind this type of question is… Continue reading Thinking Questions
Triangle congruence is coming up soon. I've always done some kind of activity where students construct triangles and discover which ones are congruent. One activity is Road Kill Cafe shared with me by @craigklement. I'm not sure where it originally came from, sorry. Below is another construction activity we have done very similar to Road… Continue reading Stop Motion Triangle Congruence
A lesson is only as good as the updates you make. This activity, which I first blogged about here and here, came from Ditch That Textbook by Matt Miller. I love this idea and now use it as an alternative assessment activity. Please go back and read how this started for me. One reason I… Continue reading Choose Your Own Adventure *Updated*
I created this project my first year of teaching (we won't talk about how long ago that was). It used to be a teacher-guided activity, but with the use of technology, it's now a perseverance activity that meets the Geometry construction standards for constructing an equilateral triangle and regular hexagon. We also have a discussion about… Continue reading Geometric Jack
Last year I posted a vocabulary activity I've done many times with Geometry and our circle unit. Our students love this project so much we decided to use it for other units as well. Our first unit in Geometry is basic vocabulary and notation. My colleague, Tessah Wood, wrote the activity and, once again, our… Continue reading Geometry Notation Project
I don’t give vocabulary assignments very often. I usually teach it as we go in context of the lesson. Every now and then front-loading vocabulary will make lessons flow more smoothly. That’s the case with our circle unit. I can’t take credit for creating this project, but I really do like it. Students have to… Continue reading Circle Vocabulary
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
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