Tag: math activity
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“Miss, is this right?”

If I had a dollar for every time a student asked me “Miss, is this right?”… How do we help to address this need for feedback without running ourselves ragged? I came up with a few different strategies this year but the key was enforcing the. Let’s get into them.View post to subscribe to site…
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Welcome Activities for the New School Year!

Fun, engaging, welcoming and insightful activities for the first day of school! Your planning is done! ✅ View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Differentiating with Tech Games

Ed tech games can be a powerful way to differentiate your class for both advanced learners and those who need remediation.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Math = Noise

There is a ton of research that shows students learn best in a collaborative environment. Acquiring knowledge is more effective and productive when you can discuss the work in a group of peers. Some may understand the work better than you, so they can explain it to you. Others may not understand as well, so…
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It’s the end of the school year…. now what?

I task students with making up their own examples (and solving them), and then explaining how they solved them. They are allowed to get ideas from their interactive notebooks, their folders, textbooks or the internet… but the problems in their project have to be their own, original problems, correctly solved. They must include word problems…
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Math Activities that Make Students Collaborate

We know that collaboration is a great strategy to help students learn and enforce their understanding of a topic. So how to do make them do it when they seem to have lost the knack?View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
