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 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...

With #MTBoSBlaugust happening right now, it was very easy to find some new blogs to read.   Here  is a list of the participating blogs if you are looking for new sources of inspiration too.  When I started looking, I was searching for great ideas that I could use in my classroom.  Here is what I found. 1)   Socrative 101 - Making "Digital Task Cards" :  I recently wrote about how I'd like to use technology at the direct station for formative assessment more often.  One thing that has been holding me back is the difficulty that exists in writing mathematical symbols on these sites.  Rock Star Math Teacher posted directions on how to use powerpoint to make this process easier.    Here  are some of the of the socrative quizzes that she has already made.  Powerpoint has an easy to use equation editor and then you just save each slide as an image.  I'm excited to try this to digitize some of my current whiteboard p...