Mathsational

One was to make practice more novel is to include some randomness.  Every student ends up solving different problems even though they are all working from the same document.  You can simply create generic problems with the numerical parts missing.  Then have students randomly generate the numbers to fill in.  They could roll dice, deal cards, spin a spinner, or use an online number generator. Jennifer Fairbanks wrote about an activity on using dice to create an activity about adding and subtracting radicals here:  A radical activity - adding and subtracting Here are some activities that you can try.  If you make your own, I'd love so see them :) Grade 2 Place Value Practice With Dice  Grade 5 Numerical Expressions and Word Form Algebra 1 Adding and Subtracting Polynomials Card Activity  - I did not create this one, but I can not recall where I found it.  I'll update this post once I track down the source. Algebra 2 Adding and Su...

This year I've taken the #teach180 twitter challenge.  The goal is to tweet one picture from your classroom each day.  I'm also blogging bi-weekly about those tweets/activities. Day 41:  Today was a quiz day.  I give cumulative quizzes on every 5th day of class as part of standards based grading/teaching/learning.  This response made me particularly happy.  I learned about CPM's Giant 1 a few weeks ago.  I used it this year to teach simplifying radical expressions and students picked up the idea faster than ever! So close. Glad I learned about the CPM great big giant 1. #teach180 #alg2chat pic.twitter.com/oHFfY2OBrI — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) October 27, 2016 Day 42:  Today in geometry we practiced triangle proofs again.  This will probably be never ending with  frequent revisits all semester.  Proofs are something that my students find 1) boring and 2) difficult.  Any one with solutions to those problems, I'm ...