Five Things Friday: Book 14
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Adding and Subtracting Polynomials,
Algebra 1,
algebra tiles,
Blood Drive,
Five Things Friday,
Multiplying Polynomials,
Parent Teacher Conferences,
Polynomials,
question stack,
Student Council
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This has been a CRAZY week. Two nights of nurture instructor conferences. H5N1 trip to the airport. Blood Drive. Mix this amongst the natural craziness of the calendar week earlier jump break, together with I realize that the exclusively weblog posts I've written this calendar week lead maintain been Mon Must Reads together with Five Things Friday. Oops. Given that side past times side calendar week is jump break, I can't hope that side past times side calendar week volition last whatsoever amend inward the posting department.
Here's a peek into roughly of what I've been upward to this week.
1. We broke out the algebra tiles inward Algebra 1 this calendar week to larn how to multiply polynomials. My students had never seen algebra tiles, together with hence commencement I had to learn them how they work. I tried 4 unlike ways of introducing algebra tiles, together with I'm actually happy amongst the 4th iteration of my intro to algebra tiles lesson. I handed each educatee a bowl of algebra tiles (I honour that the apartment foursquare bowls at Dollar Tree amongst the dark-green lids are perfect for storing sets of Algebra tiles inward the classroom) together with asked them what they noticed. It was a beautiful scene to witness. Students were noticing that at that topographic point were unlike sizes together with colors. They noticed that each size of kind featured a ruby-red side. When I asked why that mightiness be, i educatee suggested that the ruby-red side belike meant negative.
After nosotros had listed other things nosotros noticed such equally "they brand a cool audio if you lot hitting 2 of them together," I asked for a educatee volunteer to come upward to the board together with brand a painting exhibit using roughly of my jumbo magnetic algebra tiles. Then, I wrote the polynomial that represented this painting exhibit beside it. I challenged my degree to figure out how I was determining the polynomial. After the commencement painting exhibit (the butterfly on the right), my students were stumped.
So I invited roughly other educatee to brand a picture. This led to the bloom beside the butterfly. They were all the same stumped.
Then, roughly other educatee made a painting exhibit that consisted of exclusively a ruby-red square. I idea this was bright because when I wrote -x^2 side past times side to the large ruby-red square, at that topographic point was no denying what the large foursquare meant. The side past times side student's painting exhibit was a unmarried large blueish square. When I wrote x^2 side past times side to this picture, at that topographic point were oohs together with aahs equally students started to figure out why I hadn't written an x^2 inward the polynomial for the butterfly despite it having 2 large squares.
After students had started to grasp the pregnant of the tiles, I started having them state me what a painting exhibit would equal earlier I wrote downward the polynomial. This was a lot of fun, together with I retrieve it volition directly last my go-to method for introducing algebra tiles inward the future.
2. We had a educatee council coming together this week, together with my dry out erase board ended upward existence taken over past times speed drawn pigs. Who knew that you lot could plough a uppercase E, 2 W's, i M, together with i cursive l into a pig?!?
3. We're working on polynomials inward Algebra 1. I made several query stack activities for this theme concluding year, together with hence it's been dainty to simply become over to my filing cabinet together with describe out the day's activeness without having to practise whatsoever prep! Here's the link to the weblog post amongst this adding/subtracting polynomials inward share annotation query stack.
4. I retrieve our blood drive was a success! My educatee council kids did a nifty undertaking of trying to brand certain everyone's blood donation was a nifty experience. They recruited extra donors on the solar daytime of the drive, together with I'm incredibly proud of them. Even though I was technically the blood drive coordinator, they did most all of the work. I was a large fan of the blood drive sign upward poster they made!
5. My mind bought everyone tacos for dinner for the commencement nighttime of parent/teacher conferences. Since I'm vegetarian, they exceptional ordered me a quesadilla. Having a yummy dinner made it much easier to remain positive piece spending three hours later schoolhouse for conferences. I beloved coming together amongst students together with parents, but it makes for SUCH a long day!
Here's a peek into roughly of what I've been upward to this week.
1. We broke out the algebra tiles inward Algebra 1 this calendar week to larn how to multiply polynomials. My students had never seen algebra tiles, together with hence commencement I had to learn them how they work. I tried 4 unlike ways of introducing algebra tiles, together with I'm actually happy amongst the 4th iteration of my intro to algebra tiles lesson. I handed each educatee a bowl of algebra tiles (I honour that the apartment foursquare bowls at Dollar Tree amongst the dark-green lids are perfect for storing sets of Algebra tiles inward the classroom) together with asked them what they noticed. It was a beautiful scene to witness. Students were noticing that at that topographic point were unlike sizes together with colors. They noticed that each size of kind featured a ruby-red side. When I asked why that mightiness be, i educatee suggested that the ruby-red side belike meant negative.
After nosotros had listed other things nosotros noticed such equally "they brand a cool audio if you lot hitting 2 of them together," I asked for a educatee volunteer to come upward to the board together with brand a painting exhibit using roughly of my jumbo magnetic algebra tiles. Then, I wrote the polynomial that represented this painting exhibit beside it. I challenged my degree to figure out how I was determining the polynomial. After the commencement painting exhibit (the butterfly on the right), my students were stumped.
So I invited roughly other educatee to brand a picture. This led to the bloom beside the butterfly. They were all the same stumped.
Then, roughly other educatee made a painting exhibit that consisted of exclusively a ruby-red square. I idea this was bright because when I wrote -x^2 side past times side to the large ruby-red square, at that topographic point was no denying what the large foursquare meant. The side past times side student's painting exhibit was a unmarried large blueish square. When I wrote x^2 side past times side to this picture, at that topographic point were oohs together with aahs equally students started to figure out why I hadn't written an x^2 inward the polynomial for the butterfly despite it having 2 large squares.
After students had started to grasp the pregnant of the tiles, I started having them state me what a painting exhibit would equal earlier I wrote downward the polynomial. This was a lot of fun, together with I retrieve it volition directly last my go-to method for introducing algebra tiles inward the future.
2. We had a educatee council coming together this week, together with my dry out erase board ended upward existence taken over past times speed drawn pigs. Who knew that you lot could plough a uppercase E, 2 W's, i M, together with i cursive l into a pig?!?
3. We're working on polynomials inward Algebra 1. I made several query stack activities for this theme concluding year, together with hence it's been dainty to simply become over to my filing cabinet together with describe out the day's activeness without having to practise whatsoever prep! Here's the link to the weblog post amongst this adding/subtracting polynomials inward share annotation query stack.
4. I retrieve our blood drive was a success! My educatee council kids did a nifty undertaking of trying to brand certain everyone's blood donation was a nifty experience. They recruited extra donors on the solar daytime of the drive, together with I'm incredibly proud of them. Even though I was technically the blood drive coordinator, they did most all of the work. I was a large fan of the blood drive sign upward poster they made!
5. My mind bought everyone tacos for dinner for the commencement nighttime of parent/teacher conferences. Since I'm vegetarian, they exceptional ordered me a quesadilla. Having a yummy dinner made it much easier to remain positive piece spending three hours later schoolhouse for conferences. I beloved coming together amongst students together with parents, but it makes for SUCH a long day!
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