Ideas + Resources + More for the 5th - 8th Grade Math Classroom
How do you take a topic that isn’t overly exciting and get the kids to have fun with it? I have found that getting students out of their seats and working with friends usually does the trick! 🙂 If you follow my blog you know that I have been sharing activity ideas (and free downloads)Read more about Having Fun with Distance and Midpoint[…]
Here is activity #2 for the ordered pair cards I posted in my last blog post. (If you missed my post on a fun, free activity for teaching slope, you can read it here). This is an activity on graphing in the coordinate plane that gets kids up and moving around the room: Give eachRead more about Moving Around the Room with the Coordinate Plane – Activity Idea[…]
Slope is an important topic for pre-algebra, 8th grade math, and algebra. I was trying to come up with a new idea for practicing slope and I came up with the following: I made 32 cards with ordered pairs on them. All of the coordinates of the ordered pairs are between -3 and 3. IRead more about Teaching Slope – Fun Activity Idea[…]
Just a quick post today (to make up for my last 3 being sooo long)! Does anyone else have students who can’t seem to draw a decent coordinate plane on a piece of graph paper? I never would have thought that tracing a horizontal and vertical line on a piece of graph paper would beRead more about Coordinate Planes Freebie[…]
