#5things I need to do before school starts
Well, when Julie (@jreulbach) tweeted about posting a blog by Friday, I thought that sounded easy enough, but it is 11pm on Friday night and I don't really thing I have much to say. So I'll go to a...
View ArticleBrain Dump...Beginning of the Year
So I have a bunch of random thoughts about the beginning of the year bouncing around in my head, and I need to get them out because I won't be able to hash anything out for a few days and I don't want...
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Algebra 1 Units, Learning Targets, Pacing, and Reporting Standards
I finally got to spend some quality time in my classroom this afternoon. It was just a couple hours, but I felt SO productive. After cleaning my group whiteboards with WD40, I set out to rearranging...
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Number Line Task
So this is the style of many of the tasks that I do in my room, heavy on math, lots of opportunities for me to check in with students as a group and individually, reflection, and math, not always...
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While You Were Out
I've never had a good system for absent work that seemed efficient to me. Last year I had a big bulletin board with each day of the week where I put handouts, but that doesn't summarize everything and...
View Article#5things I Like About Walking
Recently my family visited St. Louis. We walked a lot, and it reminded me of when I lived in Chicago and I also walked a lot. It made me miss walking a lot. And then I came home and there was this...
View ArticleFirst Week Plans: Algebra Topics
Well Andy (@rockychat3) was nice enough to share his entire year's worth of plans for his block Algebra course, and he said he was interested in hearing about mine. So here it goes! These are my...
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First Week Plans: Algebra 1
Here are my basic plans for Algebra 1. I have four sections of this. Mostly freshmen, but some older students as well. However, I basically consider it a freshmen course and work hard to help my...
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Rearranging Equations
To start solving multivariable equations for a variable, I have been using this task. (Note: For viewable files, you must download them in word.)Here are the instructions: And here is an example of...
View Article#5things I Need to Do this Week
5 Things I Need to Do this Week - All I have left of break is the rest of this week!1. Organize Student SuppliesI need to do this at least once a semester. I just put in an order to Bulk Office...
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Desmos Picture
My students in Algebra 1 are learning about functions, and we start with domain and range of relations. Due to amazing #MTBoS resources, I had some excellent resources to integrate into a week long...
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Checklists #MyFavorite
As I was thinking about what My Favorite thing in the classroom was I thought of checklists. A year -and-a-half ago I wrote about why I was excited to try checklists, but now I'm on the other side of...
View ArticleMrs. Freed, you taught me that!
Here is another one good thing post!Yesterday my students were practicing evaluating functions using function notation, which really is just another excuse to practice order of operations and exponents...
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Stacking Cups
I did Stacking Cups by Dan Meyer again. I haven't done it in a few years and I think my intro made it more successful this time. I let the students lead themselves to the problem. I just held up a...
View ArticleRestructuring...Again
Well, I'm at it again...trying to figure out how to make my classroom and curriculum better for my students. I like a lot of things about a lot of my units, but I found myself wondering if it would be...
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Practice Structures
So, Sarah Carter and I chatted on twitter some about practice structures, and she totally beat me to blogging about it. Read her post here. She also calls for you to submit the practice structures...
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Algebra 1 Learning Targets and Reporting Standards
I've been working on my learning targets for this coming year and linking them to reporting standards. My goal is that the learning targets will be somewhat evenly spread out among my eight reporting...
View ArticleWriting in Math
At TMC I really felt pushed to have my students doing more reflection, which I had already been thinking about. I want them to have "math journals" where they can reflect on what we're doing in class,...
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Checklist turned Tracking Sheet
At TMC16, I went to lunch with a group to discuss SBG and Interactive Notebooks. We ended up mostly talking about SBG, which was great because I got a new idea! Jessica Breur (@BreurBreur) shared how...
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Unit Conversions Piece
Before #TMC16, I had asked for some help with lesson ideas for unit conversions. Anna Vance (@typeamathland), replied with this introduction that she has usedI was thinking this is pretty awesome!...
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