Day 33... Love the MTBoS!

I love that I'm a part of a group of amazing math teachers from around the world. On those days where I feel uninspired, I love that I have a plethora of resources at my fingertips. Today, in Intermediate Algebra, we did Dan Meyer's Stacking Cups activity. It was very interesting to see the light bulbs around the room as students understood the slope and y-intercept in relation to the cup.

Day 32... Sort those Shapes!

Students were given a set of cards and asked them to sort by shape. Typically, I do this card sort to introduce the shapes, but due to this week's schedule, I choose to do it after the fact. The conversations weren't as good as I've had in the past, but it still was an effective warmup activity. Then we used the cards to practice writing descriptions and did an exit ticket. All in all, it was a good day :)

Day 31... Foldable Fun

When describing a graph, you need to make sure to include the Shape, Odd Features, Center, and Spread... aka SOCS :)

Day 30...Another failure

Sometimes I do a great job of remembering to take a picture.... Other days, I barely remember to take attendance... Today was one of those days :(

So sorry! Maybe tomorrow will be a better day :)

Day 29... It's a Frog-Flippin' Kind of Day

I love finding fun toys in the Dollar Tree toy aisle! I found this "Frog Pond" game a few years ago and it is such a fun way to gather data! Each student has two minutes to get as many frogs into the pond as possible, then we use the data to introduce dotplots, stemplots, and histograms. Fun! :)

Day 28... Water Displacement

In Intermediate Algebra today, we borrowed some 100 mL graduated cylinders from my neighboring science teacher, added 50 mL of water, then dropped in dice (one at a time) to gather some data. I'm pretty proud of how well the students did today with finding slope when it wasn't a perfect line. The best part was how many of them nailed the exit ticket of "What kind of object would we need to use to create a line with a steeper slope?"

Day 27... AVID Cards

Today during my planning period, my aide worked on these flashcards for our AVID Tutorials. One of the AVID teachers asked me earlier this week about providing the tutors with prompts to help with questioning, so this is my answer to help our teachers/tutors out. I am excited for the teachers to try them out tomorrow!