Teach statistics in a way that your students love! Click for 5 fun and engaging ways to teach statistics to middle and high school students.
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Ready to make math centers work in shorter middle school class periods? Get the details - structure, scheduling, activities, and more!
My second lesson this year with my 7th graders is about the properties of addition and multiplication. I was so thrilled when I found these...
Fun and engaging ideas to incorporate the March Madness tournament into your middle school math classroom.
I hope that this blog inspires you to start using interactive notebooks with your students. Here are some things to think about when you g...
There are so many ways to use math task cards in upper elementary and middle school. This game uses math task cards with a bit of a twist!
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Looking for a list of the 10 best math movies ever made? This collection of movies with math as a central theme celebrates math in the movies and is appropriate for all ages. The list includes excellent movies about math, examples of math in the movies, and suggested math movies for middle school st
Planning and prepping differentiated math centers can be simple when using the Math Workshop framework. Less prep time and greater student growth is a win-win.
KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
Looking for a way to bring March madness into the classroom? Check out these ideas for classroom March madness activities!
The end of the school year is the perfect time to incorporate real world math and engaging activities. I love using projects to keep students focused the last few weeks of school. Below are some o…
My first Pi Day was chaos. It was fun, but I definitely did not enjoy it as much as would have if I had planned it more carefully. More importantly, I did not feel like the kids learned much. Even t
Check out all 10 unit rate activity ideas math students will absolutely love! Includes unit rate activity ideas, games, print and go resources, and graphic organizers.
Free Worksheets, Guided Notes, Slide Show, Exit Quiz, Bell Work, and much more to help you teach your lesson on Continuity, End Behavior, and Limits.
There are middle school math skills students must master to thrive in high school. This post discusses the 7 most important skills.
We want students to be comfortable in our classrooms. We want them to feel welcomed and inspired. Classroom decoration can play a role in creating that environment. Below are some simple ways to …
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.
If you're looking for a way to make your homeschool math lessons more engaging, add math games to your day. Games help middle school students learn in a fun and exciting way.
This post may contain affiliate links. That means that if you click the links and make a purchase I may receive compensation at no additional cost to you. I do not recommend any companies that I do not persoanlly use and love. Please read our disclaimer for more info. Often, teaching inclusion math in middle school, it is difficult to keep all students moving at the same pace. We faced this challenge recently when teaching our unit on exponent laws. We begin teaching exponent laws by teaching the different laws, product of powers, quotient of powers, power of a power, negative exponent rules, and the power of zero. On the first day, I provide my students who struggle in math with these cheat sheets of the rules, Power of Exponents. Throughout the unit, if anyone else gets our attention, we’ll give them one also. We then spend a few days giving students plenty of practice and reviewing all of the different problems with them. During this time we provide them with individual attention as needed. The Problem Once we feel as though it is time to move on and begin introducing coefficients, we do. But this year there was a snag. We were noticing that while many of the students were ready to move on, some weren’t. To decipher what was happening we gave them a quick, ungraded assessment. I gave the students a six-question quiz to see how they’d do. In one of our classes, the lowest score was a 3, and most students had a 5 out of 6. But, in our other class, the smaller class which usually does better, there were a significant number of ones and twos! Cue to a moment of panic and the realization that we need more time. The Plan We decided that the best way to combat this issue was to have centers. For our class that was doing well, we had six centers that the students rotated through. For our class that had some struggling, we pulled the group that had three or less right on the assessment into a small group for remediation. I took this group to my classroom where we went back to basics. The Centers I had not made enough exponent products that would be useful to us, so we went to Pinterest. In my adventures, I found this bundle, Properties of Exponents Activities and Games. One center was a foldable from this product where the students had to cut out the shape and figure out which rule and example went with which graphic. We also used the mazes from this product as another center where the students could work together to solve each of the mazes. We left them the answer key so that they could check when they were finished. A third center was the puzzle from this product, which I cut out and laminated. Any excuse to laminate is a good thing in my book! We also had a fourth center where the students would watch a YouTube video about the laws, which also introduced the coefficient and how it affected the operations. The fifth center was additional practice with task cards that I made that did not include coefficients. Properties of Powers Exponents. I also laminated these because I LOVE laminating! And the final center was a teacher run station where we could work with them on specific topics based on the needs of the group. The Results The students were engaged in this lesson. My co-teacher and I had been trying to find a way to incorporate centers into our class for a while, and this was our first attempt. We did learn different things about the specific classes and ways that we will do differently in the future. For example, the class where we chose the groups went better than the class where they chose their groups. Even though we gave explicit instructions, there was still a lot of confusion, and we should have put table tents with the instructions at the centers themselves as back up. All in all, it was a great lesson, and the group of students who were pulled for remediation all left asking if we could do that again soon. Which is unexpected for eighth-graders to want to be pulled out of the classroom! See also: Why You Should Be Using Centers in Your Secondary Classroom Using Reference Sheets to Support Your Inclusion Students Get your free IEP summary page! Subscribe to get our latest content by email. Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. First Name Email Address We use this field to detect spam bots. If you fill this in, you will be marked as a spammer. Get your download! We won't send you spam. Unsubscribe at any time. Powered by ConvertKit
Maze Solving Equations Activities to use with your Algebra 1 Class. Here are some FREE Maze Activities to use with your unit on solving equations.
Classroom math word wall photos shared by Teachers! This post is filled with classroom math vocabulary wall photos shared by Teachers! Making math word walls brings me so much joy, and seeing them in your classrooms is just so incredible. Thank you so so so much for sending these wonderful photos to me.
Last week, our school received exciting new math tools – cuisenaire rods! I’ve used these number rods before, and was thrilled to jump right-in with them this week in guided math g…
Are you searching for some ways to add that extra something to keep your kids engaged? Well then check out the Ultimate List of Ways to Make Math Fun!
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.
Thanks for all of your sweet comments about my last post! I made most of my geometry unit on my own. I will definitely be sharing some of the things, but I am thinking of finally taking the plunge …
FREE math partner games for multiplication and division facts. These partner games are low-prep, engaging, and perfect for math centers or early finishers.
Need help teaching high school geometry proofs? These tips and activities will help students understand how to write proofs and will keep them engaged!
Want to seem like an excellent math teacher? Play the substitution game. It is worth 1000 worksheets. It's never boring and it's different every time.
Do you have students who struggle to "get it" in your algebra class? I've been there! The ideas and resources in this post work for special education algebra students and students who need some convincing that algebra is cool. The post includes links to a solving equations graphic organizer, quick check algebra templates, algebra pennants, math cheat sheets, partner math activities and an algebra 1 word wall. All of the algebra teaching ideas in this post are teacher tested and kid approved! I know they will work to reengage your students.
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Finish the year off on the right foot. Check out these 11 ideas and resources perfect for the end of the year in the middle school math classroom.
Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.
Using an interactive notebook is essential for the guided math classroom. Make your interactive notebook organization easy and efficient for your classroom.
