I’ve been getting lots of traffic on my “Freebies” page from blog followers and visitors. It occurred to me, though, that maybe not everyone has looked beyond the homepage of Lessons From The Middle.  I just had a peek at the Middle School Freebies collection that I started a while back, and I noticed that [...]

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When you first interviewed for your job you get question like ''Do you think all students can learn?'', ''What's your favorite thing about teaching?'', and ''How do you make students feel comfortable in your classroom?''  I believe some teachers lose sight of these questions and how they answered these questions from when they joined the ...

Definitions: write down definitions of vocab words on index cards and toss them in a bag.  Have twenty definitions for groups of nine players or fewer and 40 definitions of groups of ten or more.  To start, have a player draw a card and read the definition.  The person who first names the word gets a point and draws the next definition.  When the ...

5 Angry Bird Lessons ranging from quadratic equations, geometry, graphing, addition, measurement, to conic sections.  These are fun engaging lessons for students to accomplish in the classroom. Quadratic Destruction: Given the equations of the curves required to destroy the pigs, can the students plot the graphs? This is an attempt to bring ...

Number Loving is a great math resource from Laura Rees-Hughes and Sharon Derbyshire.  It is a very simple and elegant website that is easy to use.  It has many topics ranging from algebra, geometry, number sense, and statistics.  The resources are phenomenal they range from quizzes, activities, starters, investigations, and review games for all ...

Students love watching YouTube videos and incorporating them in to your lessons are educational, but also entertaining for the students to watch.  Tough algebra terms can be reduced to simply rhymes and raps like this school. The same school even put together YouTube video for solving quadratics. Implementing fun videos at the end of ...

Attached below is a link to different math classroom activities ranging from Jump Rope Math, Hula Hoop math, different problem sheets, cost comparisons, and factoring activities.  These activities were created with one goal in mind and that was to incorporate physical movement and activities in to the math classroom. ...

Top 5 March Madness Activities to Use in the Classroom If you are an intermediate (grades 3-6) or secondary (grades 6-12) teacher, I am sure there are many students that are interested in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, also known as March Madness! We have developed numerous activities that relate to math, writing, geography, spelling and ...

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 classes with open classrooms and activities targets higher ordered thinking skills. Good ...