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September 2011 - Posts
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How many math teachers give the same math test year after year? Make your math tests and quizzes more valuable to students and help them learn in different ways. Using academic vocabulary and teaching how you want your quizzes and tests done, you can Read More...
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Having questions of the day or questions of the week where students can work on harder problems or problems that could be on the test are a great way to get students interested in mathematics. Giving prizes to first, second, and third places are the best Read More...
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Sometimes we know that student or multiple students who take almost beautiful notes in your class, that you couldn't even make them better than those. Now with a iPad, you can have the notes along with everyone else in your class. ShowMe is a interactive Read More...
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Most math teachers have seen how 1=0 and most of the tricks you see in college. But, math area tricks are easier for middle and lower secondary schools to implement and describe why there are problems with the current picture. Below is one of the math Read More...
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How do you use instruction to grab the attention of all your students, especially if you are in a diverse classroom? First I am going to give you the big three points in using multicultural teaching strategies in your classroom. Knowledge Construction Read More...
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Taken from Time Magazine (watch out this article was in the 60's) ( Parental Discretion is Advised )! A quick introduction is that an elderly woman saw a blond girl with a ponytail run from an alley and jump into a yellow car driven by her husband . The Read More...
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Math trail are a great way to incorporate everyday mathematics in to the curriculum. Below is a video featured by a professor, it shows him going through geometry, algebra, and mathematics everyone teaches in their classroom in an exciting way. A math Read More...
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There are many different ways you can incorporate nature and nature walks into a math lesson. Building real world meaning and creating awareness for environmental concerns are great ways to get student's interested in outdoor activities. In an outdoor Read More...
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Since most teachers lesson plan over the weekend, or the end of the week. Everyone knows how hard those beginning classes are to get your students to accomplish tasks and pay attention. One way you can take back their attention is bingo-cards. From http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ Read More...
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Infusing Technology into the Classroom: "Pocket Mods" for Education : This is a great way to introduce math journals in to the classroom, by instilling thinking and reading in the classroom. The students can make the pocket mods at home and bring them Read More...
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Every teacher needs a little time off and the reading theatre is the way I take my time off. You have the student's read a portion or part of text and then apply either a guide or writing prompts to guide them through the rest of the lesson. A few of Read More...
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Math journals are a great way to not only incorporate writing in the classroom, but to also include higher-order thinking and an easy way to test for prior knowledge. Math journals can be a simple bell ringer from what they learned from the math class Read More...
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Teaching algebra from a book can be boring, especially for the teacher sometimes as well. Another way to incorporate algebra in a fun and new manipulative is algebra polygons. Students come up with patterns they see in the polygons, they can share them Read More...
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It seems like all middle school level kids are reading or have already read Compound by S.A. Bodeen is a well written novel about the brink of nuclear war and the compound underground in which they live their life. I know you are thinking this is not Read More...
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In high school geometry students examine the types of geometrical operations that can be performed by using only a straight edge and a compass. Origami has similiar and sometimes origami's axioms are easier to understand since in some origami there are Read More...
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Using technology in the classroom optimizes student learning and since most of the people reading this are Mac users and most teachers are Mac users (this one is for you). I'm going to start with iTunes, there is a podcast called A Brief History of Mathemaics Read More...
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I have student taught in places where right-brained students were left in the dust. I don't want your classroom to be this way. Right brained students are math teacher's best friends always very helpful and if you tailor your lesson plans correctly, they Read More...
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Since today is 9/7/11 all odd, today my post goes out to Ron Gordon. A California teacher spreading the word about numbers and not just numbers, but how math can be fun and exciting at the same time. On his website he has created a contest and offering Read More...
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As a younger students have recess and middle school students might have P.E. for 30-45 minutes in a day, math class is an easy way to incorporate moving around and abilities you might not get to see in other classrooms. There are many different ways to Read More...
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"Where does this math come from?", "Who uses this math?", and "Who came up with this stupid stuff?" are all questions students ask and most of these questions are valid questions. I know my math teachers in high school never told me where this hunk of Read More...
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Graphic Organizers are all the rage now. My favorite graphic organizer in the math classroom is S2D2 graphic organizers, which the letters don't go exactly in order, but what the heck. S: for spell the word. D: define the word. D: draw the word. And finally, Read More...
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There are many websites out there that you view to get a different manipulative or even a different way to teach a particular concept and it turns out to be a bad website that offers no advantages to your students. There is the main one that everyone Read More...
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Smart boards are the teachers best friend. Teachers best friends use to be PowerPoint's, but how boring can those be? SNORE! Listed below is a website that has many different games and templates for teachers to use in mathematics, most of which are more Read More...
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