Mathsational

I wrote about using TIC TAC TOE as a fun way for students to practice math concepts.  The original post is here . The original post contains free townloads of two games.  The first is an algebra 1 game for graphing linear inequalities on the coordinate plane .  The second was a geometry game for calculating surface area and volume of spheres . Now I have made two more games.  Here they are; enjoy!  Please share if you create your own :) Grade 7 Adding Rational Numbers TIC TAC TOE Grade 8 Pythagorean Theorem TIC TAC TOE

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...

Tic Tac Toe is an easy way to have students work on building fluency and is more engaging than just completing a worksheet.  You could try this activity with either of two different approaches. The first option is  to treat the game sort of like bingo.  Each player would have a board, questions are chosen one at a time.  Every student solves the problem and marks the solution on their game board if they have it.  Play would continue until one player gets 3 in a row.  I wrote about an activity like this here .  The activity was made to help students practice graphing linear inequalities. The other option would be to play the game more like Hollywood Squares.  Students take turns choosing problems to solve.  If they correctly solve the problem, they win and color in the corresponding square until they get a certain number of squares in a row.   Here is an activity that I created with this format.  The activity was designe...