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Looking for a fun extra credit math project? This website tells you which mathematician was born on your birthday! Makes a fun link between math and history and a fun way for students to gain some extra credit in math.
In this Make Six Puzzle, you are given eight equations. You must insert mathematical symbols (no digits) to make each equation equal six. If you are wondering what mathematical symbols you are allowed to use, that is up to you!
Are you ready to take on the Sixes Challenge? You must use exactly four sixes and your choice of arithmetical symbols to form the eight given target numbers.
Here are the exponent rules notes I used with my Algebra 2 students. We glued the a list of exponent rules in our interactive notebooks.
What do you call a group of dudes who love math? Algebros!
We’re a math-traumatized people, Jo Boaler says (although she uses the British locution “maths-traumatized”). It’s a belief she sees confirmed in everything from students crying over long division to…
One of my favorite activities for introducing the concept of a function in Algebra 1 is to host a Function Auction. The first year I did this, I threw the
Today I want to share some graphic organizers I created to remind students the steps for factoring quadratics. We filled these out and glued them in our
I took my trusty DIXI ROYD mnemonic and turned it into a domain and range graphic organizer for my Algebra 1 students to glue in their interactive notebooks.
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Introduction to Inverse Trig Functions Transformations of the Inverse Trig Functions Graphs of Inverse Functions Composite Inverse Trig Functions with Special Angles Evaluating Inverse Trig Functions – Special Angles Composite Inverse Trig Functions with Non-Special Angles Trig Inverses in the Calculator More Practice Introduction to Inverse Trig Functions We studied Inverses of Functions here; we remember […]
This Twosday Challenge is the perfect way to infuse a bit of mathematical fun on an upcoming mathematical holiday - Twosday!
This inequalities investigation was inspired by an activity from Discovering Algebra called "Toe the Line."
I created these arithmetic and geometric sequences and series foldables to help my Algebra 2 students to help them keep track of what each variable in the
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I decided that a card sort was the perfect method to introduce my Algebra 2 students to the vertex form of a quadratic. My sweet husband even offered to
Kid Giddy is such a great resource for parents out there! Here, they’ve posted great Sudoku-kids printables…I love that they use shapes, I have never seen that before. They even mention…
Building a solid conceptual understanding of algebra is absolutely fundamental. As with fractions, it's essential that we get it right because it underpins so much of what follows. But, as with fractions, pupils can really struggle here. Sometimes good teaching resources inspire us when we're looking for ways to structure and deliver our teaching. This post contains some recommendations that may give you food for thought when you’re planning your lessons. Misconceptions Before teaching any topic for the first time it's really important to think about potential misconceptions. The best thing a student teacher or NQT can do is ask an experienced teacher. This algebra misconception summary is also helpful. The first time I taught algebra, I used this true/false activity to reveal any outstanding misconceptions in the last lesson of the sequence. As a newbie teacher, I was astounded by the mistakes pupils made, like putting both of these cards in the 'true' column: This activity provided a good opportunity to have individual discussions with pupils and help them make sense of it all. So it’s useful both as a learning experience and for formative assessment. I'm not stalking him, promise I've featured resources from Don Steward in almost every blog post I've written. I make no apologies for this. His website is amazing. Here's a few highlights from his algebra collection: Lengthy expressions is a nice way to get pupils used to forming expressions containing letters and numbers. Expression pyramids are an engaging way to practise simplifying and this activity is a perfect extension. In Steps, pupils have to determine what step has been taken to get from one expression to the next (see below). Six expressions is a rich activity for pupils who've been taught how to expand single brackets. Three sets of excellent activities help students explore concepts relating to simplifying and equivalence: 'equivalence', 'same and transformed' and 'equivalent things'. Steps - Median Don Steward There's lots more on Median Don Steward - look under the labels algebra, simplifying, expressions and substitution. Fawn Nguyen’s Noah’s Ark This is a lovely activity which gets pupils used to the idea of representing values with letters (or pictures in this case). Noah's Ark by Fawn Nguyen Visual representations 'I'm thinking of a number' questions are a good way to get started with solving equations. MathsPad had a nice card sort that makes the link between words and algebra. MathsPad also features a worksheet that uses visual representations to build an understanding of how to solve equations. The same approach is taken to rearranging formulae - this lesson plan features their range of associated resources. MathsPad More ideas These slides from newmrsc (@_z_0_e) on TES are really good for a first look at algebra. For substitution, I like this code breaker from Teachit Maths (and this second code breaker, which involves harder expressions). Substitution scenarios is nice too. Great Maths Teaching Ideas has, well, some great maths teaching ideas... There's lots of algebra stuff on the website, like this ask ask trade activity for expanding single brackets. Lindsay Porter (@L1nd54y) suggests using manipulatives when teaching expanding brackets and forming equations. For example, put two chocolate coins and 20 pence in a bag. If we have five of these bags, what do we have? Anything involving chocolate gets my vote. I really recommend buying the ebook How to Start on Teach First: Maths by Kris Boulton, Bruno Reddy and Bodil Isaksen. The associated 'How to teach...' documents (accessed via Dropbox) are incredibly helpful. For example 'How to Teach Collecting Like Terms' has very clear explanations of misconceptions and teaching strategies for introducing algebra. There's loads more resource recommendations, covering every aspect of Key Stage 3 and GCSE algebra, in my algebra resource library. Do comment below or tweet me if you have any more resources or ideas to add. Image: crotchetycomics.blogspot.com
Teaching the Pythagorean theorem? This funny math cartoon starts the conversation with laughter!
I don't think it's any secret that math is my favorite subject to teach. I love coming up with new ideas and lessons to teach something that used to be so boring to me. As a child I pretty much live
Free Download of Error Analysis Sheet to help students reflect on their mistakes and make a plan to improve their understanding before retaking a quiz/test.
I love the way I set up my student's interactive notebooks in math! These tips will help a teacher in any subject get things going at the beginning of the year.
This past week in class we started my FAVORITE type of math to teach! ALGEBRA!! I'm not sure what I love so much about it, but I just think that the possibilities are ENDLESS with the fun things that you can do with it! I remember when I was in school and was in Algebra-it was book/paper activities ALL. THE. TIME. However, I plan to do some out of the box things this 9 weeks with my Expressions and Equations 6th Grade CCSS. :) So, here is a peek at what I did this past week in class to introduce Expressions and Equations. First, we took some note in our Interactive Notebooks on the difference between Expressions and Equations, vocabulary, the Distributive Property (with Algebra), and did some stick and solves (with post-its). It was hard for the students to grasp the distributive property a little with algebra since we learned about it a little with Number Systems, but with numbers not variables. They got stuck for awhile thinking that you could SOLVE these expressions with a number, so we spent a LOT of time talking about the difference between an expression and an equation. We then got into like terms and combining them. This sparked my higher students to go crazy with this, and all week during enrichment, I spent giving CHALLENGES with maybe 7 terms that had to be distributed to, powers and mixed variables! Even though we got into some CRAZY variables, powers, and combining (7th or 8th grade stuff), they had a BLAST! It really challenged them to understand the process-so I think that it really pushed my higher students! Not to mention they were having FUN---and who wants to stop that? :) We did an Algebraic Expression Mix and Mingle, too. I did it on note cards for now, unless anyone expresses an interest for me to put all of my Mix and Mingle games on Teachers Pay Teachers, then I will make them cute and fancy. :) Just send me a message or comment, First, I made expressions that the students needed to solve using the distributive property: I then also made cards in blue ink that had the answers written on them. The students paired up and were each given a question card and a random, answer card. The pairs of students then worked out the question on their card: Once everyone had worked out their questions, they mingled with each other to try to find the group with their answer card. They had a lot of fun--plus it included an aspect that ALL middle school students LOVE to do---MINGLE! :) The last thing that we got to this past week was translating words into algebraic expressions. Ugh. I was dreading this one because even when I taught math at the community college they struggled with this one. We started with some Pinspired notes in our interactive notebooks: Then we did some practice whole class. That is about as far as we got this week. We did a Mix and Mingle activity with this too. Everyone got a card-some were the words and some were the expressions, and they had to match up the correct words to expression. :) We only have two and a half days this next week of school, and I am planning to have them work on our Thanksgiving Math Centers as a review (shameless plug-they're on sale the rest of today!!!). :) Plus, I have math planning on Monday, so I won't be in the classroom. Have a great week everyone! :)
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Information on factorials can be found here on Wikipedia. Via Dropping the Science.
Tibu comics follow the adventures of a spunky eight-year-old girl who navigates her world with a mix of humor and heart.
This week I finally did some infographic designs inspired by all the women in mathematics I have talked about so far this month. I have to say that this topic has been one of the most interesting t…
I discovered this solving equations flowchart foldable when I still had some students who were getting their steps out of order when trying to solve
Here are the exponent rules notes I used with my Algebra 2 students. We glued the a list of exponent rules in our interactive notebooks.
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Teach children strategies for adding and subtracting, build math fact fluency, solve word problems, and play math activities and games. A FREE addition equation sort is included!
