My FAVORITE Classroom Wall Decoration
Check out this beautiful, math-inspired wall decoration which you can tie into an SEL check-in if you want!
It’s Been a Minute…
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all the teachers out there in the trenches working hard to make a difference!
Desmos Fellows Day 2
DESMOS FELLOW BLOG POST #3: Reflections on a full day of learning, inspiration, and meeting more amazing people in the math community
Desmos Fellows Day 1
DESMOS FELLOW BLOG POST #2: Arriving into Denver for the first day of the conference
Preparing for Desmos Fellows ‘24 Weekend!
DESMOS FELLOWS BLOG POST #1:
Packing + getting ready to fly out to Denver, CO.
2nd Annual Elementary Math Competition!
Today my high school hosted our district’s third annual city-wide elementary school math competition, featuring Math Olympiad style questions. Each high schooler was assigned to a team of four 5/6th graders to facilitate the competition, grade their work, report their scores, and get to know them. Overall, it was a great day!
Rediscovered Diff. Eq. application problems + Seniors’ final days
There are only two days left with our wonderful seniors: Class of 2024! Their final exam projects are wrapping up and final grades are almost done. I also just came across two great Differential Equations applications problems that I had saved years ago and lost track of.
What to do with Seniors after the AP Exam: 2024 version
Every year I think carefully about how I will spend my final week before my seniors graduate and leave. This year I a switching things up and creating a new final project for them to create: a letter to a future student with a Demos polar designed crest!
Castle Attack: Final AP Calculus Review Game
After years of intending to try this easy-to-use game, I finally used to today in AP Calculus and it went really well! In this post, I describe how I set up the game, how I will improve it for future use, and share the problems I used.
One Year Blog Anniversary :)
Reflections on ONE YEAR of my blog: my own little corner of the internet!
How I ran March Math Madness
This is the first year I ran March Math Madness in my classes. Here is how I organized it, how I created my brackets, the problems sets I used, and the prizes I created.
Pi Day and Pie Day
Here’s how me and my students celebrated Pi day this year! Bingo, Pie, Math Team end-of-season party, and more.
Trying Bingo + Open Middle for the win
Open Middle is a great website to find engaging, open-ended, critical thinking tasks for students, especially those who finish work early. Tomorrow I am trying out Bingo for the in my class FIRST time ever! Here’s my Bingo sheet.
Classroom Screen and Lo-Fi tunes
Today I incorporated two new-to-me things into my classroom: Lo-Fi music and Classroom Screen. I love them both!
Building Cross-Sectional Volumes
My favorite way to help Calculus students visualize cross-sectional volumes is with PIPE CLEANERS!
Happy Mathentine’s Day!
Normally for Valentine’s Day, I mark the occasion by posting a couple fun Valentine’s day and math related links for students to explore, but this year I found some cute and fun math Valentine’s Day cards (“Mathentines”) online and decided to use them as well.
Super Bowl Prediction Contest
I share a fun and easy-to-use prediction sheet to use with students to increase their interest in the game.
MATHstodon Math Teacher Community
The MTBoS online math teacher community was flourishing around 2012, when the first Twitter Math Camp (TMC) was held. I missed out on this, but luckily, the community is reforming on a new platform!
1st Day of School “About Me” Pennants
Starting in 2021-22, I began using an “About Me” pennant to not only get to know students, but to also create a lasting memory of each student that I have taught - plus, it’s a really fun activity that immediately breaks the ice on Day 1 and makes a great ending on the final day of school!
Math Competition Set-up!
The day is finally here - Our second annual, district-wide elementary school math competition is tomorrow, hosted at my high school! ALSO: information on our high school - elementary school math team partnership.