Mathsational

This year I've taken the #teach180 challenge.  The challenge is to tweet at least one picture from your classroom each day of class.  I'm also putting those tweets together into blog posts every other week and adding links to resources so that others can use and modify the activities if they like.  This has been a great experience so far.  It has given me the chance to reflect on my work more frequently. Day 31:  Today my algebra 2 students practiced factoring by grouping by solving a tarsia puzzle.  I wrote about tarsia puzzles here and here is a link to the activity.  You will need to download the tarsia software before opening the document. Today in #alg2chat we practiced factoring by grouping with a tarsia puzzle #teach180 pic.twitter.com/aNxDUlUunw — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) October 14, 2016 Day 32:  Algebra 2 students practiced factoring trinomials in quadratic from today though a color by number activity.  I wrote abo...

Another practice structure that I use about once per chapter is color-by-number.  I typically find the coloring pages on Pinterest.   Here is the board that I have been using to collect images for future activities. I usually choose with the problems by using Kuta software or by pulling from a pre-existing worksheet. I number the problems to match the numbers in the color-by-number picture.  Then I match the answers to the appropriate color.  Students solve each problem, locate the matching answer and color the numbers in the picture with that matching color. Somewhat surprisingly, these activities are well liked by my students.  If too much time passes, they ask about when we will do another.  I personally like the pictures that you can not identify until after they are colored, but my students seem to prefer cartoon characters. Here is one example that I used last year to have students practice factoring trinomials in quadratic form. Here is...