This is a bit embarrassing, but because I try my best to swallow my pride and embrace growth mindset, I'm fessing up. It was during my first year teaching that I finally realized what a2 + b2 = c2 really meant.
Fun Pythagorean Theorem Activities and Teaching Ideas
This is a bit embarrassing, but because I try my best to swallow my pride and embrace growth mindset, I'm fessing up. It was during my first year teaching that I finally realized what a2 + b2 = c2 really meant.
An easy check sheet for grading interactive notebooks
Do you love interactive notebooks but struggle to grade them? In this post I want to share a super simple plan and Excel check sheet for grading INBs that worked really well in my math classroom.
Voyage to the Treasure! collaborative math games
My friend Alex from Middle School Math Man and I have been working together on a new collaborative math game series called Voyage to the Treasure!
In this game, students work together to beat the board's Math Monster and get to the treasure first.
A picture book to show our children that Everyone Can Learn Math
I came across Alice's book Everyone Can Learn Math on Instagram a few months ago and finally asked if she'd be willing to write a guest post here about her amazing math picture book.
I remember joking with my first principal about being at a party, someone proudly declaring that he can't do math and others joining in with high-fives. Suddenly everyone is bonding over pretzels and punch and their dislike of numbers.
Financial Literacy Word Wall
I loved teaching Consumer Math. There's something so empowering about knowing how to work with percentages, how to budget and what all that fancy-sounding financial language means.
Free posters for the book A Remainder of One
Before our daughter was born, I watched a ton of TV. It was always on in the background. In fact, my husband and daughter are on a little father daughter outing right now so I popped on HGTV while writing this post. Old habits die hard!
Finding GCF and LCM with the Upside-down Cake Method
When I first came across the ladder method (ie: the upside-down cake method) for finding greatest common factors and lowest common multiples, I thought it was nothing short of complete genius. This was pretty recent, too! I love learning new methods for teaching math concepts.
Prime factoring is super cool and extremely useful in building number sense, but if the goal is to find GCF and especially LCM, this cake method makes the process so much easier.