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.
Spotify Classroom Playlists!
I don’t typically play music in class, but today was different. The Queen of Rock n’ Roll just passed away. We celebrated her life and music by listening to my Tina Turner Tribute Spotify playlist while doing math. Also, some other Spotify playlists I’ve used in class.