2017'S Close Pop Posts
Friday, August 23, 2019
Classroom Decor,
Dry Erase Pockets,
Farkle,
Polynomials,
Puzzles,
Reflection,
Sequences and Series,
Systems of Equations,
Two Truths and a Lie
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Every year, Jo Morgan posts a recap of her favorite and/or most pop posts of the year. Last year, I copied her lead, as well as this twelvemonth I am going to do the same. I gauge that makes it a tradition. 2017 isn't quite over yet, but I'm going to accept wages of the fact that it is early on Christmas Break as well as my to do listing is non yet overwhelmed amongst materials to learn develop for side past times side semester.
This volition live my 197th weblog post service of 2017.So, how does this year's blogging stack upward to previous years?
Blog Posts past times Year
2017 - 197 (so far)
2016 - 183
2015 - 199
2014 - 214
2013 - 107
2012 - 103
2011 - 3
Hopefully, I tin knock out a few to a greater extent than posts over the residuum of Christmas Break. That would construct 2017 my instant most frequent twelvemonth of blogging. Like last year, I am going to accept a await at how many pageviews each weblog post service I wrote inward 2017 received. I savor doing this to run across what type of posts my readers most enjoy.
1. 21 Ideas for the First Week of School - I wrote this post service this summertime to reverberate on the activities I did LAST YEAR during the initiatory of all calendar week of school. I'd never gotten around to blogging almost it concluding year, thus I decided I mightiness every bit good do a recap of concluding twelvemonth to assistance me create upward one's quest heed what I wanted to do this twelvemonth during the initiatory of all week. This was past times far my most pop post service of the year. It was read over 20,000 times! The fact that this post service was my post service pop of the twelvemonth doesn't actually surprise me because my weblog traffic e'er peaks inward mid August/early September every bit teachers are planning for the upcoming schoolhouse year.
2. My Most-Referenced Math Classroom Decorations - My side past times side most pop post service featured 1 of my favorite things to weblog almost - decorating your math classroom! This past times summer, I took a dissimilar approach to my classroom decorating process. Instead of creating a bunch of construct novel posters similar I have got the concluding few years, I almost solely decorated my classroom amongst my favorite posters from the concluding few years. Making posters for my classroom is an activeness that brings me incredible joy each year. The fact that thus many math teachers across the province pick out to hang the posters I have got designed on their walls is amazing.
3. Post-It Note Puzzle - This post service included an awesome puzzle from Chris Smith involving post-it notes. The puzzle was included inward Chris's maths newsletter which is a must-subscribe. (For subscribing info, depository fiscal establishment check out the weblog post service above!) Quite a few of you lot tried the puzzle out afterward I shared it. Writing this post service reminds me that I have got yet to role this puzzle amongst this year's students. I must remedy that!
4. Free Printable Farkle Score Sheet - Farkle (affiliate link) is 1 of my favorite die games to play amongst students. This year, I designed a reusable grade canvass for my students to role piece playing Farkle. I printed them on 11 x 17 cardstock (affiliate link), as well as nosotros slid them into our 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets (also an affiliate link). If you lot don't have got the powerfulness to impress on eleven x 17 paper, I have got also uploaded a missive of the alphabet sized version. I recollect 1 of the reasons this post service was thus pop is that it isn't only math teachers who dear playing farkle. I've had enough of weblog traffic from people only searching for "printable farkle grade sheets."
5. Two Truths as well as a Lie Activity Template - For several years, I have got used 2 truths as well as a prevarication every bit a review strategy inward my math classes. This year, I decided to formalize the procedure a fleck as well as create a printable version that students could thus mucilage inward their notebooks. I recollect this post service has been pop this twelvemonth because this printable file tin live used past times teachers of whatever flat storey as well as whatever subject. In the future, I'd dear to edit this file to arrive into a bulletin board version where the answer to which controversy is the prevarication is hidden underneath the statements.
6. Systems of Equations as well as Inequalities Interactive Notebook Pages - I'm a fleck surprised that this post service was inward my plow over 10 for 2017. When I looked dorsum through this post, I didn't uncovering anything to learn super excited about. One argue I recollect it may have got been pop is that I've e'er constitute pedagogy systems of equations/inequalities to live a really tricky topic to teach. If you lot do a search on my blog, you lot volition uncovering relatively few posts almost pedagogy systems because I've never actually felt every bit if I've done them justice. Last year's effort was my best effort at pedagogy systems thus far.
7. INB Pages for Algebra 1 Unit on Polynomials - Polynomials, on the other hand, are 1 of my favorite topics to learn inward Algebra 1. Over the concluding few years, I've made my polynomial unit of measurement into a unit of measurement I'm really proud of, thus I'm non surprised that this post service was thus popular. Using the box method (or surface area method if you lot prefer that name) has been a life-changing sense every bit a math teacher. Every year, I examine to focus to a greater extent than on conceptual agreement when pedagogy factoring than the many tricks I used to role every bit a get-go teacher.
8. Kicking off Sequences inward Algebra 1 - This is a relatively curt post, but I gauge it nonetheless resonated amongst my readers. Last twelvemonth was the initiatory of all twelvemonth for sequences to live included inward Oklahoma's Algebra 1 curriculum, thus I had to learn peculiarly creative amongst this unit. If you lot desire to know to a greater extent than almost how I taught sequences concluding year, I would recommend reading this post instead because it covers the entire sequences unit of measurement instead of only the beginning.
9. Can You Level the Towers? - Unlike the concluding few resources, this is non my ain creation. This business was created past times the amazing as well as inspiring Don Steward. I took his icon as well as resized it to jibe inward my 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets (affiliate link). I dear that this business approaches the concept of hateful through a agreement of leveling instead of a memorized algorithm.
10. Mean, Median, Mode, as well as Range Spider Puzzles - This concluding most pop post service of 2017 was also non my ain creation. These spider puzzles were a gratuitous download from alutwyche on TES. If you lot haven't checked out his broad attain of spider puzzles, they are an incredible resources for your math classroom. I resized his file (originally meant to live printed on A4 paper) to impress on missive of the alphabet sized newspaper to jibe within my 9 x 12 dry out erase pockets (affiliate link). These puzzles render groovy leveled practise of mean, median, mode, as well as range.
So, what are my take-aways from compiling this listing of my plow over 10 most pop weblog posts from 2017? Like concluding year, I recognize that most of my post service pop posts include downloads. People nonetheless dear downloads. Three of my most pop posts are only re-shares of awesome resources created past times Britain maths bloggers. The bulk of my readers are American math teachers, thus I assume many of them aren't familiar amongst many of the Britain maths teachers who are sharing amazing resources.
I'll acknowledge that when I initiatory of all started reading blogs, I steered away from blogs from other countries because I constitute a lot of the terminology they used to live confusing. Then, I made an exception 1 time for an Australian maths teacher who I ended upward marrying. Since then, I follow ALL THE BLOGS.
I'm happy that I am able to role my weblog every bit a house to nurture the voices of other math(s) teachers around the world. This is 1 argue I dear compiling my Monday Must Reads posts each week. I'm looking frontwards to 2018 every bit a twelvemonth to part both what I'm doing inward my classroom as well as what others are doing inward their classrooms that I uncovering to live inspiring.
This volition live my 197th weblog post service of 2017.So, how does this year's blogging stack upward to previous years?
Blog Posts past times Year
2017 - 197 (so far)
2016 - 183
2015 - 199
2014 - 214
2013 - 107
2012 - 103
2011 - 3
Hopefully, I tin knock out a few to a greater extent than posts over the residuum of Christmas Break. That would construct 2017 my instant most frequent twelvemonth of blogging. Like last year, I am going to accept a await at how many pageviews each weblog post service I wrote inward 2017 received. I savor doing this to run across what type of posts my readers most enjoy.
1. 21 Ideas for the First Week of School - I wrote this post service this summertime to reverberate on the activities I did LAST YEAR during the initiatory of all calendar week of school. I'd never gotten around to blogging almost it concluding year, thus I decided I mightiness every bit good do a recap of concluding twelvemonth to assistance me create upward one's quest heed what I wanted to do this twelvemonth during the initiatory of all week. This was past times far my most pop post service of the year. It was read over 20,000 times! The fact that this post service was my post service pop of the twelvemonth doesn't actually surprise me because my weblog traffic e'er peaks inward mid August/early September every bit teachers are planning for the upcoming schoolhouse year.
2. My Most-Referenced Math Classroom Decorations - My side past times side most pop post service featured 1 of my favorite things to weblog almost - decorating your math classroom! This past times summer, I took a dissimilar approach to my classroom decorating process. Instead of creating a bunch of construct novel posters similar I have got the concluding few years, I almost solely decorated my classroom amongst my favorite posters from the concluding few years. Making posters for my classroom is an activeness that brings me incredible joy each year. The fact that thus many math teachers across the province pick out to hang the posters I have got designed on their walls is amazing.
3. Post-It Note Puzzle - This post service included an awesome puzzle from Chris Smith involving post-it notes. The puzzle was included inward Chris's maths newsletter which is a must-subscribe. (For subscribing info, depository fiscal establishment check out the weblog post service above!) Quite a few of you lot tried the puzzle out afterward I shared it. Writing this post service reminds me that I have got yet to role this puzzle amongst this year's students. I must remedy that!
4. Free Printable Farkle Score Sheet - Farkle (affiliate link) is 1 of my favorite die games to play amongst students. This year, I designed a reusable grade canvass for my students to role piece playing Farkle. I printed them on 11 x 17 cardstock (affiliate link), as well as nosotros slid them into our 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets (also an affiliate link). If you lot don't have got the powerfulness to impress on eleven x 17 paper, I have got also uploaded a missive of the alphabet sized version. I recollect 1 of the reasons this post service was thus pop is that it isn't only math teachers who dear playing farkle. I've had enough of weblog traffic from people only searching for "printable farkle grade sheets."
5. Two Truths as well as a Lie Activity Template - For several years, I have got used 2 truths as well as a prevarication every bit a review strategy inward my math classes. This year, I decided to formalize the procedure a fleck as well as create a printable version that students could thus mucilage inward their notebooks. I recollect this post service has been pop this twelvemonth because this printable file tin live used past times teachers of whatever flat storey as well as whatever subject. In the future, I'd dear to edit this file to arrive into a bulletin board version where the answer to which controversy is the prevarication is hidden underneath the statements.
6. Systems of Equations as well as Inequalities Interactive Notebook Pages - I'm a fleck surprised that this post service was inward my plow over 10 for 2017. When I looked dorsum through this post, I didn't uncovering anything to learn super excited about. One argue I recollect it may have got been pop is that I've e'er constitute pedagogy systems of equations/inequalities to live a really tricky topic to teach. If you lot do a search on my blog, you lot volition uncovering relatively few posts almost pedagogy systems because I've never actually felt every bit if I've done them justice. Last year's effort was my best effort at pedagogy systems thus far.
7. INB Pages for Algebra 1 Unit on Polynomials - Polynomials, on the other hand, are 1 of my favorite topics to learn inward Algebra 1. Over the concluding few years, I've made my polynomial unit of measurement into a unit of measurement I'm really proud of, thus I'm non surprised that this post service was thus popular. Using the box method (or surface area method if you lot prefer that name) has been a life-changing sense every bit a math teacher. Every year, I examine to focus to a greater extent than on conceptual agreement when pedagogy factoring than the many tricks I used to role every bit a get-go teacher.
8. Kicking off Sequences inward Algebra 1 - This is a relatively curt post, but I gauge it nonetheless resonated amongst my readers. Last twelvemonth was the initiatory of all twelvemonth for sequences to live included inward Oklahoma's Algebra 1 curriculum, thus I had to learn peculiarly creative amongst this unit. If you lot desire to know to a greater extent than almost how I taught sequences concluding year, I would recommend reading this post instead because it covers the entire sequences unit of measurement instead of only the beginning.
9. Can You Level the Towers? - Unlike the concluding few resources, this is non my ain creation. This business was created past times the amazing as well as inspiring Don Steward. I took his icon as well as resized it to jibe inward my 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets (affiliate link). I dear that this business approaches the concept of hateful through a agreement of leveling instead of a memorized algorithm.
10. Mean, Median, Mode, as well as Range Spider Puzzles - This concluding most pop post service of 2017 was also non my ain creation. These spider puzzles were a gratuitous download from alutwyche on TES. If you lot haven't checked out his broad attain of spider puzzles, they are an incredible resources for your math classroom. I resized his file (originally meant to live printed on A4 paper) to impress on missive of the alphabet sized newspaper to jibe within my 9 x 12 dry out erase pockets (affiliate link). These puzzles render groovy leveled practise of mean, median, mode, as well as range.
So, what are my take-aways from compiling this listing of my plow over 10 most pop weblog posts from 2017? Like concluding year, I recognize that most of my post service pop posts include downloads. People nonetheless dear downloads. Three of my most pop posts are only re-shares of awesome resources created past times Britain maths bloggers. The bulk of my readers are American math teachers, thus I assume many of them aren't familiar amongst many of the Britain maths teachers who are sharing amazing resources.
I'll acknowledge that when I initiatory of all started reading blogs, I steered away from blogs from other countries because I constitute a lot of the terminology they used to live confusing. Then, I made an exception 1 time for an Australian maths teacher who I ended upward marrying. Since then, I follow ALL THE BLOGS.
I'm happy that I am able to role my weblog every bit a house to nurture the voices of other math(s) teachers around the world. This is 1 argue I dear compiling my Monday Must Reads posts each week. I'm looking frontwards to 2018 every bit a twelvemonth to part both what I'm doing inward my classroom as well as what others are doing inward their classrooms that I uncovering to live inspiring.
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