Mathsational

I previously wrote about using board games for math practice.  Any easy to play game will work.  You can pick them up from the dollar store, yard sales, or big box stores.  You could even find your own free printables on Pinterest .  Then just have your students complete one math question before each round of moves/turns.  You can read the original post here for more information. In the first post, I shared two versions of the games.  The first was on biconditionals and definitions and while the second was about multiplying and dividing rational expressions .  I've added two more examples now. Kindergarten - 2D vs 3D Shapes Grade 8 - Triangle Similarity I hope you try using board games in your practice sessions.  Let me know how it goes or if you make a variation of the idea :)

This year I'm taking part in the #teach180 twitter challenge.  The challenge is to post one picture from your classroom each day of the school year.  I am also writing a biweekly post to share the resources that I tweet out. Day 51:  Today was a quiz day.  I give cumulative quizzes every fifth day of class.  On this particular quiz, I had quiet a few students attempt to simplify a fraction by "canceling across addition or subtraction."  I need to reinforce this again obviously.  I've tried doing simply arithmetic examples and showing how the fractions are not equivalent.  Any other ideas on how to show students that this does not work? #NeedARedStamp "can't cancel across +/-" #teach180 pic.twitter.com/KBKH9A91H5 — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) November 10, 2016 Day 52:  Today in geometry we started reviewing for midterms.  The exams are about 2 months away, but I'm starting to build in a review activity several times per wee...

This year I've taken the #teach180 challenge and am attempting to tweet one picture from my classroom every day.  So far this has helped to hold me accountable for planning lessons that have at least one picture worthy moment per day.  I find myself being more mindful about opportunities for student engagement.  I'm also putting these posts together so that I can share the resources that I have collected and created.  Hopefully you will find something useful here. Day 21:  Today the students practiced writing biconditionals and good definitions in geometry while playing a childhood board game.  I wrote more about using board games in class here . Today in #geometrychat we practiced biconditionals with board games #teach180 pic.twitter.com/zjvDIQPNIp — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) September 28, 2016 Day 22:  On this day, my algebra 2 students practiced distributing and factoring out greatest common factors using +Desmos .   Here is a l...

The next practice structure that I'd like to share is having kids play board games.  This is just another alternative to a worksheet.  I take the problems from a practice worksheet and put them onto powerpoint slides, print them in landscape four to a slide, and cut the printed page into quarters with one problem per piece. For the board games, I have purchased a few cheap childhood games from stores like 5 below or walmart.  Right now I have Candy Land, Trouble and Snakes & Ladders.  You can also find lots of free printable game boards through a quick google search.  I have printed some of these out in color and laminated them to be used multiple times. For accountability, I usually just give the students a place to record their work.  I also try to provide an answer key so that students can check their work. In general I have all students try the same problem at the same time.  Then they check the answer and anyone that got the proble...