Mathsational

Last summer I got the crazy idea in my head that I should incorporate robotics into my high school math classroom.  I did a ton of research and narrowed down my first choice of robot to  +OZOBOT .  Then, by just being very very lucky, I learned that  +Tryazon  was doing a party/giveaway opportunity.  I won one Ozobot bit for myself and one to given away to a party guest.  I wrote about that initial experience here . After this experience, I decided to apply for a grant through our local education foundation .  Again, I was lucky enough to be chosen.  MTEF bought a class set of Ozobots for my classroom.  Here is what I've done with the Ozobots so far. I knew that I wanted the end product to be a path that the Ozobots would follow.  This year I'm teaching geometry and algebra 2, so I decided to do this assignment with transformations in geometry and as a cumulative review of graphing lots of types of functions for algebra 2. ...

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...

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 101:  Today was a quiz day.  I give weekly cumulative quizzes as part of #SBG. Today we had our weekly cumulative quiz #teach180 pic.twitter.com/3m0OSFfDsT — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 7, 2017 Day 102:  Today we used the Ozoblocky game to learn some introductory programming skills.  We'll use Ozobots for a tansformations project in about 2 more weeks. Today we started @OZOBOT blockly training in prep for our transformations project in 2 weeks. Thanks to MTEF @ManheimTownship #teach180 pic.twitter.com/qCAB6KHAX9 — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 8, 2017 Day 103:  Today in algebra 2 we practiced determining the end behavior of functions.  We were a little short o...