Ideas + Resources + More for the 5th - 8th Grade Math Classroom
Integer operations are truly a make or break middle school math concept. Students who “get” integers will be much better off than students who don’t, in terms of their future math success. That’s why I really take my time when teaching integers each year. I’m breaking up my blog post on teaching integer operations intoRead more about Hands-On Integer Operations (Part 1: Adding Integers)[…]
After a long break (due to craziness in my personal life and some technical difficulties with the blog)…I’m happy to be back blogging! I’m going to jump back into blogging with a post about Unit Analysis… I hate teaching customary system conversions the traditional way! No matter how many times you explain to students thatRead more about Unit Analysis in the Middle School Math Classroom[…]
Today’s lesson in my 7th grade math class was on finding the greatest common factor and least common multiple of a pair of numbers. I started by gathering background information about what the students already knew about the GCF and LCM. With a little bit of help the students were able to come up withRead more about Finding the GCF and LCM using the Cake Method[…]
Today’s 6th grade lesson was on rotational symmetry. I have found that students tend to be less familiar and less comfortable with rotational symmetry than they are with line symmetry (and sometimes mix the two up), so I try to find ways to make it more clear and understandable to them. I had several differentRead more about My Spin on Symmetry[…]
I started my unit on Geometry with my 6th graders before Christmas break. We got as far as the basic vocabulary and different types of angles. I decided to begin with polygons after break, so my first post-Christmas lesson was on triangles. We started off by discussing the different ways to classify triangles – byRead more about A Little Sum-thing about Triangles[…]
