As a high school teacher, it isn't often I change my bulletin boards or anything hanging on the walls in my classroom. I mean there is stuff there, but even I am getting kind of bored by it :) So, maybe this year I will work changing it up a little more often. One thing I want to try is some type of Post It to Prove It. I got the idea from Jennifer Smith-Sloane's Blog Post (see it here.) The general idea that you use this as an exit ticket - students write the answer to some question on a post it. As they leave the room, they put their post it on the white board. Cool - students see their work in the room and I see if they understand what we did! With all of the back to school sales, I will have to stock up on post-its :) In addition - I need posters - cute math posters!! If you need some too, hop on over to my TPT store and grab this FREE new poster. Fractions are Your Friends Poster If you have suggestions for classroom decorations for me - please feel free to leave them in the comments. Have a good day!
I develop curriculum for middle school math. I focus on using critical-thinking skills in my content so the math makes sense to the students.
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Here is our current target. This will stay up until we have mastered addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division equations. To get everyone ready to solve equations we began by working some very simple number sentence problems like: Students were quick to tell me the answer was 4. I then asked them to explain why the answer was 4 and to be able to tell how they figured this out. Here are their answers I counted up from 5 to 9 I subtracted 9 - 5 All perfect answers. I explained that the subtraction was the best choice because not always are we able to count up easily because of fractions, decimals, or really big numbers. We then inserted a variable into a number sentence problem and students realized they had been thinking algebraically for a long time. For our 1st day working on addition equations, my main goal was getting students to show their work correctly. So I showed two examples with work shown. This is what I expect to see on their homework.
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This is a set of 32 digital and printable task cards for writing expressions with variables. It's the perfect math activity for 5th and 6th grade. Try using it while you teach order of operations! What's included in this Writing Expressions With Variables Math Task Card resource ?32 printable math ...
I decided to make divisibility my first lesson of the year for 7th grade next year for a couple of different reasons: it is a skill used in many different concepts throughout the year and it really…
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