How to plan collaborative project-based learning activities in the math classroom. Check out these engaging PBL ideas for 3rd grade 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.
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The school year is winding down for me, and for my students it marks the end of their junior high experience. I have a hard time with the end of the year. I get sad
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As the end of the school year approaches, students can often start to wind up. Think “senioritis” when you were a high school senior, but bottle up that same excitement in smaller humans. Every spring, come May or June, even a superstar teacher with the most effective classroom management system in place can still suffer the wrath of (dun dun DUN) chatty class syndrome, or as I like to call it, “June Bug.” Even if something has worked all year long, you may feel the need to reach into your bag of tricks for a little extra reinforcement.
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I am so excited to have my new Operations and Algebraic Thinking 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 100 by ones and tens, how to compose
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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…
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I absolutely love math literature!! I have been collecting math literature for years. One of my favorite authors is Stuart J. Murphy. I like to use his books in my math centers to review skills already taught. In his book, Lemonade for Sale, a group of friends decide to setup a lemonade stand to raise money to fix up their clubhouse. They create a bar graph to keep track of their sales. I created a FREE pdf to go along with this book. It shows the bar graphs the kids made each day.Click Here to Download Your Free Copy of Lemonade Graphing One of my all time favorite books is Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! by Marilyn Burns. It is a cute story about a couple that decides to have the family over for a meal. They rent 8 tables and 32 chairs. Throughout the book the family rearranges the tables as more and more family members arrive. Reading and discussing this book is a fun way to introduce area and perimeter. I created a pdf and powerpoint to go along with this book. It shows the table layouts described in the book. I also created a set of table and chair cards that the students may cut up to manipulate into the same arrangements described in the book.Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! $2.00
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Do you have at least one to two weeks left of school? Do you want your students ENGAGED in school until the end?? If you said YES, then there is a Math Game Board Project for you and your students! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD This is seriously, hands down the best way to end the school year with your students. Every year I end with the End of Year Math Game Board Project is a happy year for my students and I. I am able to pack up my room, finish grading, and I don't have to stay after school. Kids are engaged, they loved making the board games, and the rubrics make it easy for everyone to get an A (which also helped in grading)!! Creative Original Student Made Teacher Reviews "This is a fantastic resource! Thank you so much! Can't wait to use it again this year!" -Alissa "My students loved this!" -Nicole "This helped keep the kids engaged during that tough time of year!" -Lyndsay "Awesome activity! My students' creativity shined in this assignment." -Jeanna "Thank you for this resource. It is excellent. My students took advantage of it. Perfect end of the year project!" -Teacher "Students loved this. It was the perfect way to end the year on an educational but fun note." -Teacher "Students loved this." -Michelle "This was so much fun. My stents got competitive on their games and now I have some for next year!!!!" -Teacher "This activity saved me with 8th graders the last few weeks of school." -Wendy This project saved and helped many teachers finish strong and kept the students ENGAGED. I have even had past students come back to my room at the end of the year BEGGING me to play one of the board games. How cool is that? Students asking to visit your classroom and play educational games? Yes! Truly the best way to end your school year. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD I hope this End of Year Project is a HIT in your classroom too! Just remember for the end of the year it's all about keeping those students ENGAGED until the last minute. Happy Teaching!
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UPDATE! Barbie went to high school and can now do inverse trig functions with her zipline engineering! Geometry students found angles of depression using inverse trig functions and Pythagorean theorem to find the length of cable they needed! The handout and more photos can be found at the end of this post! Math and Science classes could have been sponsored by Mattel this year with all the Barbie involved! You can read about our super fun Barbie Bungee adventures here or over at my awesome partner science teacher's blog where we dropped Barbie from the top of the football stadium bleachers. After doing Barbie Bungee with our students this year for scatter plots, we leaked the plans that we would also be doing Barbie Zipline. Students had really been looking forward to this and as soon as they saw the unit divider for their notebooks was Pythagorean Theorem, they erupted with excitement and questions! The lesson started with this video to get them thinking about the criteria of what makes a zipline fun but safe. Most line, height, and speed! We reminded them that just like Barbie Bungee, we wanted to give Barbie a thrill without killing her! Students were also given a budget to work within to get their business started. After looking at all the ways other teachers have done this lesson, I liked how Andrew Stadel at Divisible by 3 did it so I used his plan to guide me...along with talking out every detail 47 times and adjusting throughout the day with my amazing co-teachers! Here is the handout for their notebooks where I combined all the things I stole found and changed it to a fun font! Students had to get their designs approved by our super awesome maintenance guy or amazing library media specialist. Our library media specialist gave them a tough time and even had some redesign their zipline before she would approve it! One group forgot to take their money with them to pay for the permit and she charged them interest by the minute while they {ran} to get the money! I love that the whole building was involved in their learning. We walked through the criteria together and they had to come up with three designs. One that would be instant, certain death for Barbie, one where Barbie may get stuck or lack a thrilling ride, and a ride just right where Barbie goes a safe, fun speed. Students worked hard on their designs and stood in line to get them approved! I gave them the height (leg) of the launch which was the catwalk at the cafeteria. They used the tiles on the cafeteria floor to measure where the zipline should be held (leg). The hypotenuse was the amount of cable needed and they had to calculate that as well. I let them have a walkthrough of the cafeteria to make any last minute adjustments to their design and that was Day 1. For Day 2, launch day, the science classes timed the Barbies going down the ziplines and calculated the speed for each group. We used feet for the design measurement so students could use the tiles but for the speed we had them convert to meters. It was awesome to see mathematicians launching their Barbies while the scientists collected the data below! I love when our powers combine! In the videos below, you can see the launch and the students timing and calculating below. I love everything about this lesson and the Pythagorean Theorem! I am so happy so many want to try this in their classrooms! Here is the link to the interactive notebook page I used. Please make it your own and let me know how it goes and how we can make it better! Yay math! Barbie Zipline for Interactive Notebook Barbie Zipline using inverse trig functions This post is part of the MTBoS Blaugust Festival of Mathematics Blogging! Click the photo to be taken to some amazing math bloggers!
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I've finished up with my 8th grade curriculum, and so it's time to start reviewing for our state test. With two weeks left until Spring Break, I wasn't quite ready to hit the test practice yet, and I was thrilled when I stumbled across this Water Park Project. The project allowed me to review slope, midpoints, the distance formula, proportional relationships, slope-intercept form, and solving systems of linear equations in one assignment! I've even treated the project as a real job assignment by doing "foreman checks" to see if they had met their deadlines for finishing each task. I purchased a flip chart that was actually large sheets of graph paper from the office supply store, and the kids loved that they were like giant post-its. We finally finished up with the final designs and reflection assignment today, so I wanted to show off their finished projects.
I am incorporating many of the amazing ideas that I have come across on Pinterest and this is one of them. It's a missing assignment form, which you have students turn in when they do not have an assignment. I thought it would make it much easier to keep track of those who did not do something versus those who are absent. So here it is!
You may have been using Google Forms in the classroom to collect data, for surveys and even to grade, but did you know you can use Google Forms to create an interactive story? I used the multiple choice option of Google Forms to create an interactive math adventure story (similar to a Choose Your Own Adventure type story) to review multi-step math concepts. Basically students read a story and make selections that change the outcome of their adventure all while solving math problems that are integrated into the plot. I'm calling it 'Pick a Path Math on Google Forms' and so
Another day, another trip! Today's trip was down Fraction Street! Fraction Street is full of many different adventures. Finding common denominators, adding fractions, comparing fractions, multiplying by reciprocals, finding common factors, simplifying... and the list goes on! Our focus today was reviewing the steps to solve fraction problems with all four operations. We started with notes in a Flippable for our Interactive Notebooks (best resources EVER). Quick review in the beginning to refresh our minds on what the various parts of a fraction were and what each part meant. Quick, easy and too the point! Each student got a copy of the blank Flippable above and was directed to have it ready as we went through notes for each operation. Our Flippables were soon filled with great amounts of notes and love! Would you like a copy of the blank Flippable? Feel free to download it by clicking on the picture above! Leave me a comment if you plan on using it as well as I would love to see other interpretations of the Flippable! And if using Flippables in class are your thing, then please take a look at my Flippable Template pack PACKED with 51 templates that you can edit and print for personal use! **If you are interested in Commercial Use of my Flippable Templates, that is available as well.**
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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…
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The end of the year doesn't have to be difficult. Try these engaging end of year math activities to keep your students engaged and learning until the end.
Ahhh... the EOY PARCC testing is over... my SGO testing is over... all of my end-of-year paperwork is completed!! Happy May Everyone!! So, my question to you is: how do you end your school year? Are you a keep-teaching-until-the-end sorta teacher, or is projects-til-they-drop more your style? I'm the latter. I love projects! And usually, as I struggle to keep up with pacing guides and testing schedules, projects often get dropped from my plans during the school year, so I love busting out all of my most favorites during the last few weeks of school. Right now in math, we are working on this: I've used this project in my classroom for YEARS and it's always a hit! We just started it on Tuesday after our last day of PARCC testing. The kids are already loving it! Their favorite part is dreaming up their rides and giving them outlandish names! They also enjoy creating the menus for their concession stands. I had two boys spend 20 minutes today researching what foods can and cannot be deep fried!! And don't worry!! There is also math :) We started this project a bit earlier in the year than I typically do, because after we finish it, we will be starting on this: This might just be one of the coolest purchases I've ever made on Teachers Pay Teachers! I can't wait to see how it turns out!! I'm in the process of setting up two great projects in ELA, too, so stay tuned, as I'll be posting about them over the next few weeks! So, how do you end your school year? I'd love to hear from you!! Happy Teaching!!
Looking for Effective and Easy End of Year Math Activities? The final weeks of the school year have arrived and keeping your students engaged in learning math is no easy task. You can mix up your instruction and keep your students interested in learning math by incorporating a few awesome end of
Are restroom breaks an issue with your class this year? Sometimes the issue is your schedule, other times it can be an avoidance behavior with your "frequent flyers", and in some cases there is a medical reason. Look for patterns when this is an issue for your class. You can do this easily by having a chart like the one in the picture above. Use the same chart with your class or give each student their own chart if it is an issue with a small group. Students circle the day of the week and write the time they left and returned. Looking for patterns will help you get to the cause of the frequency of the breaks. Did one of your students always ask to go to the restroom when it was math time? Is it avoidance behavior or the time of the day when math is taught? Do two students ask to go at the same time or close to the same time? This may be a social issue. I just added the chart to my Busy Teachers Forms and bundle of Teacher Forms. If you previously purchased one of those, you may go to "my purchases" to download the form for free. Want just the form? You can get it here. Sources to make my blog post graphics can be found HERE. Click HERE to read my blog's disclosure statement.
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