Mathsational

This year I've taken on the #teach180 challenge.  The challenge is to post one tweet per day showing a glimpse inside your classroom.  I'm also putting the tweets together in a biweekly blog so that I can share the resources that I'm tweeting about. Day 91:  My classes are all finished taking their exams, but I have 3 kids doing make-up exams today since they were out sick last week.  Tomorrow is the last day of exams and the new semester starts on Wednesday.  Looking forward to a (somewhat) fresh start.  We have year long classes, but after the break for exams it can feel new. More grading of midterm exams today. Hoping to be able to finish by the end of the day #teach180 pic.twitter.com/BqR5hkuw5T — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) January 23, 2017 Day 92:  Today is our last day of midterm exams.  I'm wrapping up final grades for the semester and working on lesson plans for the first few days of third marking period.  I'm also collect...

This year I've taken on the #teach180 challenge.  The challenge is to post one tweet per day showing a glimpse inside your classroom.  I'm also putting the tweets together in a biweekly blog so that I can share the resources that I'm tweeting about. Day 101:  Today was a quiz day.  I give weekly cumulative quizzes as part of #SBG. Today we had our weekly cumulative quiz #teach180 pic.twitter.com/3m0OSFfDsT — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 7, 2017 Day 102:  Today we used the Ozoblocky game to learn some introductory programming skills.  We'll use Ozobots for a tansformations project in about 2 more weeks. Today we started @OZOBOT blockly training in prep for our transformations project in 2 weeks. Thanks to MTEF @ManheimTownship #teach180 pic.twitter.com/qCAB6KHAX9 — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 8, 2017 Day 103:  Today in algebra 2 we practiced determining the end behavior of functions.  We were a little short o...

This year I've taken on the #teach180 challenge.  The challenge is to post one tweet per day showing a glimpse inside your classroom.  I'm also putting the tweets together in a biweekly blog so that I can share the resources that I'm tweeting about. Day 81:  Today in algebra 2 we practice simplifying rationals with this domino activity.  I don't recall where I got the domino pieces from, but I'll keep looking and update this post once I find who to give credit to.  One of the most common phrases hear today: "You've never played dominoes before!?!?"  I suppose I need to add clearer directions to help with this :) . Today in #alg2chat we practiced simplifying rationals with a domino activity #teach180 pic.twitter.com/90jNCLmGAY — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) January 6, 2017 Day 82:  Today we had our second benchmark test.  I always get really nervous for kids on these days.  I hate giving big multi-unit tests as much as they hate t...

This year I've taken on the #teach180 challenge.  The challenge is to post one tweet per day showing a glimpse inside your classroom.  I'm also putting the tweets together in a biweekly blog so that I can share the resources that I'm tweeting about. Day 71:  Today was another quiz day.  There is sooo much grading to do at once when you choose to quiz all classes on the same day each week. Week 13 quiz today #teach180 pic.twitter.com/EzlgyBs60o — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) December 15, 2016 Day 72:  Today in geometry, we reviewed lines in slope-intercept form using ExploreLearning's Gizmo.  This is in preparation for working with the equations of parallel and perpendicular lines while reviewing for our midterm. Today in #GeometryChat we reviewed slope-intercept form of line with @ExploreLearning #teach180 pic.twitter.com/bdt6B9ltJF — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) December 16, 2016 Day 73:  Today in algebra 2, we played +Desmo...

A few years ago I came across these posts by Matt Vaudrey  on teacher report cards:   paper form and google form .  It took me three years to work up the courage to do this myself.  Part of the reason for my reluctance is that I recently started teaching in a hybrid/rotational station format .  Many of my students still struggle with this.  They have had 8-10 years of traditional lecture/practice/repeat style math classes, so this is a big change for them.  The model places a lot of responsibility on the students.  So much so that I have actually modified the theoretical model recommended by PAHLI  to add in a little whole class lecture. Just so you can appreciate my routine, I'll describe a typical lesson.  First, we start with very traditional whole group instruction that involves lecture and practice on a new skill.  Some students say this is their favorite part of the lesson because they are comfortable with this trad...