Questions & Activities to Make Math Better.
You can google search these math puzzles on paper. My students love to do them but I wanted a way for students to be able to self check so I created a Google Sheets version. I have provide the template below and I will walk you through each step to change your questions and answers.… Continue reading Digital Math Puzzle
I'm teaching a semester long Intro to Calculus class this year. Trig is not a pre-requisite so there is no trig in the problems but we go through the basic idea of limits and derivatives. We also go through the Pre-Calculus unit to brush up on all the skills needed to be successful. I wanted… Continue reading Pre-Calculus Info Notes
This is a fun activity that could be used to check practice answers (my intent for this) or to add to a digital escape room or just a fun warm-up activity if you only have a few problems. I get requests from teachers all the time about how to create an activity where the student… Continue reading Google Sheets Lock Template
I love Spooky season and I love to incorporate it into my math activities. Let me offer a disclaimer here. Know your students, and if Halloween activities go against their beliefs then make arrangements accordingly. Let the fun begin! Geometric Jack This first activity was created by me. When I was a fresh, baby teacher,… Continue reading Spooky Math Activities
I've created a few self-checking Google Sheets activities for my first unit in Geometry. I thought some of you might be able to use them too so I'm sharing them below. They are set to make a copy. The first one is Angle Addition Postulate and the second one is just a quick review of… Continue reading Unit 1 Geometry Self-Checking Activities
We have finished week 2 using the Thinking Classroom strategies in my Geometry classroom. This was the first week of content and I think we all have some wonderful takeaways! If you aren't sure what thinking classroom is, check out my first post about it. The content we started with was technically review material but… Continue reading Thinking Classroom Updates and Resources
Well that sounds like a movie title. I wanted to share with you a quick update to Road Kill Kafe that I use in my Geometry class to discover congruent triangles. It was shared with me by my friend Craig Klement (@CraigKlement) and you can read about all of my Triangle Congruence activities here. We… Continue reading Road Kill Kafe goes Remote
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
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
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