Mathsational

I previously wrote about a game called My Ship Sails that can be used for practicing math content.  It is a card sort style game where players pass cards in attempt to collect all of a certain type card.  You can read more about the game here in the original post .  In that first post, I shared two sample games.  The first game was about end behavior of polynomials and the second game was about conditional statements . Here are two new games.  If you try the game or make a new version, I'd love to hear about it. Grade 1: Coins Grade 7: Angle Pairs

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 171:  Today we had our second to last weekly cumulative quiz! Second to last weekly cumulative quiz today #teach180 pic.twitter.com/GVrwh1P3pL — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) May 24, 2017 Day 172:  Today in geometry we used Khan Academy to review using inscribed angles . Today in #geomchat we used @khanacademy to practice using inscribed angles and their intercepted arcs #teach180 pic.twitter.com/npl4rM1uLn — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) May 25, 2017 Day 173:  Today in algebra 2 we practiced using conditional and biconditional statements with this board game assignment.  It was also the last day of class for seniors (I have 2-4, depending on which ones end up graduating) so it was a ...

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 161:  Today we had our weekly cumulative quiz.  Only 3 more weeks worth of these :) Weekly quiz today. Only 4 more before final exams #teach180 pic.twitter.com/VlAWBeNGvR — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) May 10, 2017 Day 162:  Today in geometry, we practiced constructing parallel and perpendicular lines  using ExploreLearning's Gizmo. Today in #geomchat we practiced constructing parallel and perpendicular lines using @ExploreLearning 's Gizmo #teach180 #MTBoS pic.twitter.com/fSpgvW3Yi3 — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) May 11, 2017 Day 163:  Today in algebra 2 we used the mini whiteboards to practice finding the sum of infinite geometric series. Today in #alg2chat we used mini w...

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 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...

The next practice structure I'd like to share is a card game called My Ship Sails.  I had never played this game as a child, but came across it while looking for ways to gamify my classroom more.   Here is a link on how to play the traditional game. This game would work well for any topic where kids need to be able to categorize or differentiate similar concepts.  Traditionally, there are four suits in a deck of cards, but I suppose you could create a game with three or five suits just as easily. Basically, after dealing the cards, the idea is for kids to pass one card to the left while at the same time receiving one card from the player to their right.  The object of the game is to collect all cards with the same suit/type/category. Here are two examples that I recently created for next year. This game is for geometry.  Each card has a conditional statement and then one of the following:  the hypothesis, the conclusion, a counterexample, or the conv...