Five Things Friday: Book 7

It's the get-go Fri inwards what seems similar forever that I've genuinely remembered to sit down downward in addition to write a Five Things Fri post. I'm seriously considering taking the Fri out of the cry thence that I tin but postal service them whenever I in conclusion remember...

Here are v things that I desire to advert on my blog, but I don't experience are worthy of an entire weblog post. 

1. One of my students chose to depict a math symbol every bit purpose of her gradient fine art project. This made me thence happy. What didn't brand me happy was grading these gradient fine art projects because many of my students did non follow all of the directions. :( 

2. When my husband (formerly an Australian maths teacher) in addition to I were dating, he wrote a weblog postal service where he shared how he used the Sieve of Eratosthenes amongst students. I was blown away past times this postal service because I'd used this activity amongst students before but never just similar the agency he explained. Shaun didn't but bring students grade out a unwrap once. He had them color-code their run in addition to grade out numbers each fourth dimension they were a multiple of ane of the prime numbers. My math concepts students are currently working on prime vs. composite numbers, thence I in conclusion got to effort this activity out for myself amongst this multi-colored tweak. It was awesome! I also appreciated that Shaun has his template extend to 150 instead of the touchstone 100 oft used inwards math classes.

3. Part of my math instructor identity is defined past times the fact that inwards half-dozen years of didactics I bring never taught Geometry. Algebra is my comfort-zone. I've branched out over the years to instruct other things than Algebra such every bit Statistics, Physical Science, in addition to Chemistry, but I've never thought of myself every bit capable of didactics Geometry. My husband, however, does instruct Geometry. And, this year, he teaches correct across the hall from me. I was thankful for this before this calendar week because my Algebra 1 shape got embroiled inwards a big ground over rhombuses vs. parallelograms. One pupil insisted nosotros didn't postulate the give-and-take parallelogram because every parallelogram was a rhombus.

In the middle of the debate, I left the room. My students thought I was mad nigh their debate. I wasn't. In fact, I was quite excited. I barged into my husband's room in addition to announced that I was needed to borrow his tub of exploragons (affiliate link). It was an emergency! We used diverse sized pieces to brand a parallelogram that was a rhomb in addition to ane that wasn't a rhombus. It was awesome.

I'm realizing to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than that algebra in addition to geometry are intertwined. I postulate to encompass geometry in addition to contain it inwards my didactics whether I am formally a geometry instructor or not. This is something I desire to intend on how to produce meliorate this summer.

4. I took the plunge in addition to purchased a 100 Chart (affiliate link) for my classroom. I've alone e'er seen these used inwards simple classrooms before. As a high schoolhouse teacher, this buy mightiness seem a fleck weird, but I'm looking forrard to challenging that view. My math concepts shape is a shape of ninth graders who aren't create for Algebra 1. We've already used it ane time when looking at finding multiples of three. I also await forrard to using it to play a LOW-TECH version of Julie Morgan's 1-100 Grid Review Game. If you've used a hundred nautical chart amongst secondary students, I'd dearest to remove heed to a greater extent than ideas inwards the comments!

I was super impressed that it came amongst unlike sets of color-coded cards based on which numbers the cards were multiples of.

5. For the get-go fourth dimension since September, I bring a properly working projector inwards my classroom. My old projector would overheat in addition to plough itself off every 3-5 minutes. This was non convenient for getting through cloth inwards a timely agency during class. My new, fancy LED projector (affiliate link) is thence much brighter than my old projector. We tin genuinely bring shape amongst all of the lights on! And, it doesn't randomly plough off, thence nosotros tin genuinely larn materials done. Yay! My chemical scientific discipline shape was the get-go to utilization our novel projector, in addition to I was excited to endure able to portion what plum pudding looks similar spell talking nigh Thomson's Plum Pudding Model.

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