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 121: Today we had our weekly cumulative quiz.  The end of the marking period is just about 2 and a half weeks away.  Crunch time in showing mastery of this marking period's objectives. Testing today #teach180 . This mistake makes me so sad :( pic.twitter.com/7NuPnaedTh — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) March 9, 2017 Day 122:  Today in geometry we practiced finding the area of regular polygons using this color by number assignment . Today in #geometrychat we practiced finding the area of regular polygons with this color by number assignment #teach180 pic.twitter.com/v7fb0AfPLY — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) March 10, 2017 Day 123:  Today in algebra 2 we practiced solving word problems u...

Another game that my students have really enjoyed is memory.  Memory works best for problems where students can solve mentally and quickly.  I like to use memory with 1 step equations and inequalities in pre-algebra as well as with transforming parent functions in algebra 2.  I have also used memory for practicing factoring difference of squares. Here are the directions that I give to students explaining how to play memory.  It's a little sad, but many of them have never played this game as kids. Here is the full game that I create for my algebra 2 students to review factoring difference of squares.  Originally, I had about twice as many cards, but my students struggled with solving the problems.  They were too bogged down with the number of cards that they did not get to enjoy the game. Another option is to do an internet search for matching activities on your topic of study.  I'm not sure who to give credit for this assignment, but I could e...

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 111:  Today was another one of our weekly quizzes. Testing today #teach180 . Just saw one kid do a fist pump, so it must be going well :) pic.twitter.com/IKFbB6q1pt — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 23, 2017 Day 112:  Today my geometry students finished up their transformations project using  +OZOBOT s.  The kids cheered as the bots successfully completed their courses :) Wrapping up our #geometrychat @OZOBOT transformations project today #teach180 . Thanks to MTEF @ManheimTownship pic.twitter.com/FqHEjt4yH5 — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 24, 2017 Day 113:  Today my algebra 2 classes used ExploreLearning's Gizmo to practice graphing and writing equations of circl...