Ideas + Resources + More for the 5th - 8th Grade Math Classroom
Pi Day (March 14th) is fast approaching!! With standardized testing all week, I really haven’t been doing much teaching, so I thought it would be fun to share how I plan to celebrate the biggest math holiday of the year with my classes next week… My Pi Day celebration begins withRead more about Pi Day: Ideas for celebrating 3.14[…]
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[…]
