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 made a goal to tweet one picture from my class each day.  I'm also trying to blog bi-weekly about what is happening in my classroom.  Here are the tweets from days 11-20. Day 11:  On this day, algebra 2 students reviewed linear inequalities by playing a game of 3X3, which is similar to bingo.  There are 4 boards and a deck of cards.  In each group of four, students turn a card from the deck face up.  The card has a linear inequality.  Students look at their boards to see if they have the matching graph.  If they do, they mark that box.  The first student in the group to get 3 in a row wins.  Play can continue for second and third place.  I found the original assignment from  @MathBerts   here .  And  here is a link to the the document that I edited.  I blogged about this activity last year as well. #teach180 #alg1chat tic tac toe with linear inequalities pic.twitter.com/Gq9kRrOmDa — Je...