Peek Inside My Classroom....

More practice before Thanksgiving and some coloring time!  :)

When reviewing basic probability,  I love these middle school math pizzazz books!  Corny  riddles are a hit!

Some days you just have to PRACTICE!   Especially with probability problems!   I asked the students to summarize what they learned in the la...

Today I wanted the students to take some notes but I really didn't want to lecture.   Instead I posted the PPT slides around the room an...

I really had a lot of fun with this strategy!  We used it to review for a quiz and the kids said it was very useful! 0

I forgot to take a picture again :(

One of my go to strategies is a Jigsaw for the kids to split up the work and collaborate with their peers.

I'm not doing so great at this pic a day this quarter. . :(

I asked the students to draw a huge Tic Tac Toe board on their notebook.   On the top row,  they had to write 3 things they had learned this...

Kids called this Yearbook Signing Party  but the more common name is Give One Get One. ...

No photo today but I am saddened by the number that struggled with graphing a line by plotting two points :(

Some days you just have to figure out how to provide interesting practice... Today they worked on some regression problems at their own pace...

Whoops... forgot to take a photo!

One of the benefits of having a 1:1 school is the ease of working on a data gathering project.   Students gathered data on the age of a car ...

For the warmup today,  I gave the students some notes about correlation then had them discuss  common correlation blunders.

To introduce the correlation,  I asked students to look at patterns to see if they could determine what r measured.   They did a great job! ...

Happy Halloween! Kiddos took the test we prepared for the past two days.   Hope they studied on their own too!

One thing I've really enjoyed this year is listening to my students while discussing problems.  Today we continued  reviewing by working...

It's time again for a test!   Today we reviewed by working on problems posted around the room.  

Today we learned about scatterplots and how to describe them.   The kids paired up and discussed the descriptions of a graph then moved to ...