Ideas + Resources + More for the 5th - 8th Grade Math Classroom
Today I’m sharing my newest step towards improved organization in the classroom: notebook divider tabs. (I got the idea from a blog post by Sarah Carter and knew that I wanted to modify them to work for me in the upcoming year). I decided that this year I am going to make notes worth 2Read more about Organizing Student Notebooks with Dividers[…]
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 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[…]
