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 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...

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 131: Today we had our weekly cumulative standards based quiz. Quizzes today #teach180 pic.twitter.com/2BQHXBMDWw — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) March 27, 2017 Day 132:  Today in algebra 2 we practiced finding inverses graphically with Mishaal Surti's Desmos assignment.  For whatever reason, my kids understood this much better this year.  I give credit to to awesomeness of visualizing with Desmos. Today in #alg2chat we practiced finding the inverse of a function graphically. We used @MrSurti 's @Desmos activity #teach180 #MTBoS pic.twitter.com/dSuyN4LaGF — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) March 28, 2017 Day 133:  Today in geometry, we used Khan Academy to practice finding the area of com...

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...

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...

I try to use technology both to make my classroom job easier and to engage students. I use technology in my daily presentations via Doceri.  It is one of the few paid resources that I use.  I wrote about it here .  The main way that I use Doceri is as an interactive whiteboard and as a document camera in conjunction with Reflector .  I also use Doceri to create instructional (flipped style) videos for my independent station. Another resource that I like is puzzle makers.  I like to create these activities in Tarsia.   Tarsia  is a free resource that I wrote about before. The main ways that my students use technology is through my LMS of choice, Schoology and for self paced instruction via EDpuzzle .  Schoology is just the resource that I use to post assignments and resources.  EDpuzzle allows you to assign video lessons to students and receive feedback through embedded questions. I also like to use DESMOS and Gizmos .  DE...

I'll be the first to admit the my formative assessment strategies are typically very low tech.  I'd like to incorporate more high tech options into my class, especially at the direct station.  My class is not one-to-one, but I do have a class set of laptops and many (but not all) of my students have their own smartphone or tablet.  This should make more tech integration at the direct station very doable.  However, I need to give students time to log off and put the classroom laptops away, so I'll be sticking to low tech exit tickets. Here is what I have done in the past at each of the stations for formative assessment and what I'd like to do this year. Warm-ups:  About half of the time, I like to do a fun warm-up such as Estimation 180 , Visual Patterns , Graphing Stories , Which One Doesn't Belong, or  Would you Rather .  The rest of the time, I like to use the warm-up for lagging or spiraled practice in conjunction with the exit ticket. ...

This lesson may not make sense to some of you, especially if you do not know me or what a hybrid classroom looks like.  You can read more about my hybrid classroom on the Hybrid Learning and MTSD Training – Hybrid Learning tabs of my blog. The short version of this information is that my students learn by traveling through 4 stations over a period of 2 days.  The first day consists of a 5 minute warm-up, two 20 minute stations and a 5 minute closure activity (usually an exit ticket).  The second day consists of a 5 minute warm-up, one 20 minute station, one 20 minute whole group activity and a 5 minute closure activity.  Sometimes the whole group activity is a lecture, sometimes it is a quiz, and other times it is a group work assignment or project.  The warm-ups and exit tickets might be review of a specific skill or a fun MTBoS warm-up.  Check out the MTBoS Resources tab above for more information. The first of the 3 stations is the indepen...