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 161:  Today we had our weekly cumulative quiz.  Only 3 more weeks worth of these :) Weekly quiz today. Only 4 more before final exams #teach180 pic.twitter.com/VlAWBeNGvR — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) May 10, 2017 Day 162:  Today in geometry, we practiced constructing parallel and perpendicular lines  using ExploreLearning's Gizmo. Today in #geomchat we practiced constructing parallel and perpendicular lines using @ExploreLearning 's Gizmo #teach180 #MTBoS pic.twitter.com/fSpgvW3Yi3 — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) May 11, 2017 Day 163:  Today in algebra 2 we used the mini whiteboards to practice finding the sum of infinite geometric series. Today in #alg2chat we used mini w...

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 151:  Today we had another one of our weekly cumulative quizzes. Weekly quiz day #teach180 pic.twitter.com/viDHPLYafg — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) April 26, 2017 Day 152:  Today in geometry we practiced finding the measure of inscribed angles (and angles formed by a tangent and a chord) as well as their intercepted arcs.  We did this with a game of BOOM!   Here are the cards if you'd like to use them.  I got the idea from this TpT page.  The BOOM cards come from Rachel Lynette . Today in #geomchat we practiced using inscribed angles & intercepted arcs with a game of BOOM. Thanks @RachelLynette for the idea #teach180 pic.twitter.com/XhSY92jbvA — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennif...

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 141: Today we had our first weekly quiz of the fourth marking period. Weekly quizzes today #teach180 pic.twitter.com/XSVs7YNd1d — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) April 10, 2017 Day 142:  Today in geometry, we practiced finding the volume of pyramids and cones using this ExploreLearning Gizmo. Today in #geomchat we practiced finding the volume of pyramids and cones using @ExploreLearning 's Gizmo. I love the visual here #teach180 pic.twitter.com/oHHpWrogZB — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) April 11, 2017 Day 143:  Today in algebra 2 we practiced evaluating logarithms with this domino activity .  Students have to rewrite the log in exponential form and sometimes they have to condense an expressi...

I can't say for sure where I first stumbled across Dance Dance Transversal.  It was most certainly on twitter while catching up on #MTBoS posts.  I found many people who had implemented the lesson, but the one that was done the best was this one by JJ Martinez and Jenn Vadnais. Last year, I used their Billie Jean and Uptown Funk videos.  My supervisor just happened to be doing a walk through as I was transitioning from one activity to the next.  When he walked in the room, the kids were cleaning up their markers and other supplies from a project that they were working on (they were creating alphabet scrap books for "The ABCs of Geometry") while I was bringing up the needed videos.  He inquired about what we were about to do for the second half of the period.  I let him know that what I was about to do would either go horribly wrong or be fantastic.  Of course with this bit of information, he had to stay.  I wrote about the implementation on tha...