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February 2012 - Posts
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Whiteboard Readiness Assessment: Buy a Fly Swatter. What's the connection? A fly swatter can be used as a pre-test to determine if a teacher would fully utilize an Interactive Whiteboard in their classroom . If the teacher is able to get students up and Read More...
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EdCamps are shifts when a group of motivated people get in the same room and direct their own experience: They share what's working and what isn't. (They support each other.) It is inspirational and incredibly practical anyone can help and ask for support. Read More...
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The student assistance team provide extra supports to students who are not making academic or behavioral gains with only classroom instruction. In the district that I teach at have currently set this in place for students, when teachers have concerns Read More...
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This is just introductory information for teachers who are interested in introducing more dry erase activities in to their classroom. Dry erase boards we all know present information in an animated fashion. Since I am not a an expert in this area I am Read More...
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This is a small activity a teacher in my building was lucky enough to share with me, equation relays. The way she did equation relays in her classroom was give a row of students an equation and when the student is done with one step of the equation they Read More...
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Use this link here http://blog.simplek12.com/education/the-best-subject-specific-ipad-apps-for-education/ to post your favorite iPad apps that you use in your math classroom. This should end up being a great resource for teachers to use. There aren't Read More...
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Notebook quizzes can be many things, but mainly I see them as fair tools of assessments since I am presenting the lecture the same to all the students. This makes students take notes and stay more organized. The other reason why we have math notebook Read More...
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All teachers know the difference between closed and open questions. Stimulating open questions in the math classroom produces deeper thought than a typical math classroom. These qualities are listed below for good questioning strategies and infusing math Read More...
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"Math-ing" is not a term I am guessing very many know about and in fact no one knows what it is, but you! There have been terms such as "planking", "tebowing", "snailing", and "owling." Where people pose and have a good time doing it as well. Math-ing Read More...
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Homeroom can be a place of dread or a family community , and it all depends on what teacher you have for homeroom. Way back when in highschool I had an excellent teacher and we played fantasy football throughout the fall and I thought it was the best. Read More...
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Music and dancing is a vital proactive way to support the arts, by reviewing studies music has a positive impact on areas considered outside of the realm of music. The use of arts and dancing throughout the curriculum , as a tool for better learning , Read More...
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Whole brain slope , is an activity while observing a teacher in my district and was wondering how students could more easily understand no slope, positive slope, negative slope, and zero slope. I came up with this activity that involves the students getting Read More...
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We all use math every day; to predict weather, to tell time, to handle money. Math is more than formulas or equations; it's logic, it's rationality, it's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know. The TV show Numb3rs begins each week with Read More...
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Featured below are games you can play inside the classroom if it is too cold or wet to go outside, or just need to let your students have a brain break. With winter here and even though most of the United States is snow free in the middle of January here Read More...
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Flipping a classroom is not a teaching technique, it is more in line with a philosophy or way of teaching. It involves using technology as a tool , not the main focus, for helping students increase their understanding of science or math concepts. Effective Read More...
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Many educators believe that the best and most effective lesson plans are those which begin with the final assessment in mind. In other words, teachers should know what they want to test before creating their actual lesson content. An important part of Read More...
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Interviewing a math historian isn't exactly what it sounds like, but it comes close enough to the title for me. The reason for this is to interview a grandparent and ask them the math they did in school and the highest level of education they had . The Read More...
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Evaluating math websites allows students use evaluation skills and inspiration graphic organizer skills in evaluating a selected material of three math websites that the teacher chooses. Instead of always turning to the book that may or may not be incomplete Read More...
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Discussion boards is a great way to get your questions answered , especially for students. It would be a great idea to set up a discussion board for just you classes or school, but most of the time the discussion boards are online and for everyone. There Read More...
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Teachers don't necessarily love sending emails home to the student's parents. But, I love sending emails home to parents! To get the students motivated in class for a bell work, I tell them if they participate during the week I will send an email home Read More...
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Being in administration is a difficult job. As principals, superintendents, athletic directors, and secretaries have the pleasure of dealing with discipline and running a school on a day-to-day basis that sometimes can drain your energy. Not only do you Read More...
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Mathematical ideas have been used as inspiration for a number of fiber arts including quilt making, knitting, cross-stitch, crochet, embroidery, and weaving . A wide range of mathematical concepts have been used as inspiration including topology, graph Read More...
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Abacus's have been around for many centuries, and people have been doing math on them for that long as well. If I have a few days off in my classroom I have three or four abacuses in my room and put students into groups of three or four and normally borrow Read More...
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In research currently there is a wearable video camera that is showing that may be able to slow Alzheimer's disease. When the wearer walks from room to room the video camera captures pictures of others and what the room looks like for visual cues for Read More...
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I was reading an article in the current issue of Scientific American and the article I have seen numerous times o f Bayes Theorem in the article, " Weighing the Positives ." The full article is listed here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weighing-the-positives Read More...
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I found this lesson on handsonmath.blogspot.com/2009/12/play-doh-algebra.html I would not recommend buying the lesson since the pictures above give you enough detail on what a lesson you could create on your own using Play-Doh and a few math problems. Read More...
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Have you ever seen this sign in the road? Give'em a Brake. Every time I see it I think of the fact that we as teachers need to giv e our students a break . We teachers often feel like we can't afford to give our students a break. We need to get through Read More...
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I have recently bought a book entitled Scarne's Tricks which is a magic book for adults and children. Some of the tricks in the book are a great way to get students energized about the upcoming section or lesson. There are great resources out there for Read More...
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