I had a sub this day, students practiced distance & midpoint. In retrospect, I should have started some quadrilateral classification using distance & midpoint here. Have students apply their learning instead of just reviewing.
Awesome, that’s what! Instead of having students sit and complete a boring worksheet or text book work independently, I can spend about 15 minutes and make a self paced, differentiated, student directed, self checking, collaborative activity. I take or generate about 8 problems (with unique answers) that I want students to practice, then I make … Continue reading What is “Problems around the room?”
Students completed a pretest over the learning targets for hexter 6 & then completed problems around the room reviewing proportions. Sometimes their mistakes on the pretest are rather unexpected, but it provides me direction in my lesson planning.
Waayyy too much time and thought went into this! I have to remind myself that teaching & covering are not the same and that I have to let some things go in order to tech other content well. I’m just not going to do Law of Sines & Law of Cosines in geometry. It isn’t … Continue reading Planing Hexter 4 (or the first 6 weeks of 2nd semester), or, Hey! Kate Nowak, this is why blogging kicks ass!
Today was the first time this school year that I incorporated the problems around the room activity (see the purple papers taped to the wall?). I did not have the energy or creativity last week to develop a problem based activity with this concept, so I gave myself a break and kept it simple today. … Continue reading Day 42: Exterior angle theorem
Nothing discourages mastery more than an adult who steps in and says: “Let me do that for you.”
Disclaimer: I am a very fact / list person, and I am not very organized, but I try to copy ideas from those who are and maybe trick folks into thinking I have my stuff together. This is the mess that is in my head after TMC13: Websites to include in my life remind101 – … Continue reading My (late) TMC13 post
Crazy Math Teacher Lady 