I got this idea from my peer teacher, Nina. It's a great way for students to share about themselves. I think it would be perfect for a first day of school activity. I would start by having the students first write the numbers. Later, once we have learned about multiplication and division, I would have them create the equations. Finally, they can put it all together in time for Open House. It can be easily adapted for the younger grades by using addition and/or subtraction. It can be adapted for older grades with exponents, multi-step problems, and including fractions or decimals. Thanks to my friend Nannette for inspiring me with her sample.
Check out the original Figure Me Out math activity and learn how you can make this poster with your students. This beginning of the year math activity incorporates numbers (and computation) into a page about students' own lives. Click to read about this fun ice breaker math project that you could easily use for a "who am I" guessing game or bulletin board display for Parent's Night here on Shut the Door and Teach.
We came back from winter break with a two day week last week. I really wanted to do a review of multiplication concepts, because we had been away from school for twelve days. So I had planned some …
The experience was far more vivid, more surreal, and more puzzling than I could have ever imagined, and the process of trying to figure it out took me deep into science, myth, and meaning.
I wish I knew then what I know now.
Too bad we didn’t come with a manual — for our parents and for ourselves. Would’ve been really helpful.
If you want to figure out who you are, keep a journal and write down your thoughts for at least 20 minutes every day. As you go back and read through your daily observations, you’ll start to notice patterns in your thinking and emotions that can give you insight into your inner self. For even more insight, write down a goal or priority that you would like to focus on. This will help you understand what is most important to you.
Creative medication reminders can help people with ADHD, who often have working memory problems. Use these ideas for creating visual cues, building routines, and utilizing alarms.
The books interview: Andrew Solomon, winner of the Wellcome prize, talks to Hadley Freeman about the people who helped him write Far From the Tree, and how their struggles inspired him to start a family of his own
here ya go, noni. Updates with all the latest posts from David Peterson's tumblr. The things in italics are mostly just assumptions, so be careful when using those.
In a series of short essays, writers consider what happiness means to them now, after the reckoning of the past few years
For six decades Amos explored race and gender in prints, paintings and fabrics. She died at 83 from complications of Alzheimer's but she knew that the Georgia Museum of Art show was in the works.
All I wanted to do was woohoo.
The Gay Hostel Berlin is the perfect place if your gay, male and under 38. Its fully equipped kitchen is great but its communal showers are EPIC!
Because life is just a series of irritations strung together by moments of trying to calm down.
A source revealed: ‘Josie is hugely popular with This Morning viewers and producers were determined to get her.
What do you have in store for me this time, me?
20 weeks later and "A Stick Figure Macbeth" has finally come to an end. In case you're just joining me, here's what happened during the past 20 weeks:
