Math Classroom Decorations Recap 2017-2018

Now that I'm thinking nearly how to decorate my novel classroom inward a novel district, I've realized that I never got some to sharing photos on this spider web log of my 2017-2018 classroom. So, my destination today is to cook that. I'm hoping you'll savour seeing some ornamentation ideas, together with I'm hoping that reflecting on this yesteryear year's decorations volition assist me figure out what I desire to keep/change inward my novel space.

If you lot missed the post service amongst before photos of my novel classroom, you lot tin give the axe uncovering that here. Last year, I taught Algebra 1, Math Concepts (Course for ninth Graders Not Ready for Algebra 1), together with Chemistry. Next year, I volition live instruction Algebra 2, Pre-AP Algebra 2, together with Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry. It volition live interesting to run into how my decorations alter since I volition have got null overlap of classes taught betwixt this yesteryear twelvemonth together with side yesteryear side year.

So, let's have got a tour.

Here's the persuasion from simply within my classroom door. The large alter for finally twelvemonth was that I moved from desks to tables for the showtime fourth dimension ever. I genuinely liked the tables for the most part. They were definitely helpful amongst instruction chemical scientific discipline since students needed infinite to function together on labs. 


Here's some other persuasion from the door but facing toward the other wall.


Here's yet some other persuasion from the door. This time, I'm focusing on my desk area.


This was the persuasion from my desk. This photograph was taken a chip before inward the twelvemonth than the previous photos because my bulletin boards were all the same empty together with waiting for educatee work!




Here's yet some other overview photo. This fourth dimension it shows what my room looks similar from the podium.


Here's the persuasion from the dorsum corner of my room looking towards my desk area.


Okay. Enough full general photos. Let's start looking at some specifics together with then I tin give the axe start sharing links to downloadable files for all the posters I created!

Let's start our tour some the room amongst what's behind my desk.



This is likely ane of the decorations that gets the most questions from my students. This is a unit of measurement circle projection that was created yesteryear ane of my trig students inward 2017. His dad is the ag teacher, together with then he was able to combine the assignment to build a unit of measurement circle amongst the assignment to practise some welding inward ag class.

We used the TI-30XS calculators inward Algebra 1, together with then I kept a estimator poster upward together with then I could remind students how to practise diverse keystrokes on their calculators.


I can't demo close-ups of the 2 clipboards yesteryear the estimator poster, but this was where I kept rails of how often students left to job the restroom (this entirely lasted showtime semester) together with a listing of students who came inward for tutoring.

I flora it super helpful to hold these lists on clipboards on the wall together with then they weren't cluttering upward my desk. Keeping ofttimes used things OFF of my desk was a key tip I learned from Angela Watson's Review of Angela Watson's twoscore Hour Teacher Workweek Club, Eleven More Takeaways from Angela Watson's twoscore Hour Teacher Workweek, A Final Reflection on Angela Watson's twoscore Hour Teacher Workweek Club) I wrote inward Jan nearly what  I have got learned throughout the program.

Above my estimator poster, I have got my clock amongst my pi sign. Check out this post to download the file for the Pi Clock Sign.


Under the clock, I have got some expectation posters regarding the bell. Find out to a greater extent than nearly those posters together with download a laid for your ain classroom here.


This is also the expanse where I hung my left/right reminder posters.


Above my window (which must live covered amongst curtains at all times if I want to live able to read my information processing scheme screen!), I have got a pencil that says "Mrs. Carter." This was a gift from ane of my sweetness coworkers after I got married!


Teaching chemical scientific discipline this twelvemonth meant that I finally had an excuse to hang upward these awesome scientific method posters from Scholastic higher upward my SMARTBoard! 


In betwixt my SMARTBoard together with dry out erase board, I hung my Mistakes are...Expected, Inspected, Respected, together with Corrected poster set. You tin give the axe download this poster for your ain classroom here.


Under that, I added a re-create of our 2017-2018 Bell Schedule. Every year, I retype the schedule nosotros are given together with size it to live printed on 11 x 17 Cardstock (affiliate link). I ended upward printing a bunch of extra copies this twelvemonth because my coworkers saw the poster together with wondered where I got it from!


Time to shift over to my dry out erase board.

I used painter's tape (affiliate link) to percentage off purpose of my dry out erase board for the date. I also added 2 extra boxes that I wasn't just certain how I wanted to use. Originally, I was going to build ane department concord the names of students who were out of the room, but I didn't halt upward next through amongst that.


Part way through the year, my projector stopped working reliably/properly, together with then I got inward the habit of writing the daily warm-up enquiry on the dry out erase board. I continued this fifty-fifty after they installed a novel projector many months later.

It took me an embarrassingly long fourth dimension to realize that I could job these extra boxes on the board to concord my warm-up questions!


The dry out erase board also held my novel timers which I purchased from Amazon (affiliate link). These were a life-saver this year. I used them for EVERYTHING. When students would come upward inward to serve their 15 infinitesimal dejeuner detentions, I would laid a timer for each educatee together with write their hollo higher upward the timer amongst a dry out erase marker. When I gave students something to cut/glue inward their INBs, I would laid a timer for the seat out of minutes they were allowed to have. We used these timers to play diverse games amongst fourth dimension limits. I took the timers amongst me when I led workshops, together with then I could hold the function fourth dimension I gave participants on track.


My cardinal management signs also made some other appearance this year.


During the showtime semester, my math concepts students did an Estimation 180 job each hateful solar daytime every bit a warm-up. I got super tired of writing the formulas on the board, together with then I turned it into a poster!


Underneath the dry out erase board, I hung upward a laid of posters I created for my chemical scientific discipline shape to reference over the SI Base Units. This was a super-fun laid of posters to create. I fifty-fifty had comments from my Algebra 1 students over these posters when they recognized things that had been learning nearly inward science! You tin give the axe download these SI posters here.


Above the SI posters, I hung my SBG grading scale posters. You tin give the axe download them here together with alter them every bit needed to agree your ain version of SBG!


Above the whiteboard, I added the seat out occupation posters that have got acquire a staple inward my classroom. You tin give the axe uncovering out to a greater extent than nearly how to impress your ain seat out occupation here. And, you lot tin give the axe download the positive together with negative infinity symbols to house at the ends here.


Beside the dry out erase board, I hung upward my often-referenced prime number seat out posters. These are starting to demo a lot of wear, together with then I'm thinking I demand to build a novel laid for my novel classroom. Download your ain laid here.


Above the seat out line, I added 2 posters this twelvemonth inward an endeavor to assist students realize the deviation betwixt -2^2 together with (-2)^2. Sadly, I'm non certain they genuinely did much good.


Along the ceiling line, I added a laid of Greek Alphabet posters I made several years ago. Students LOVE looking at these posters! I ever reference them inward Algebra 1 when nosotros acquire nearly using delta inward relation to the gradient formula. When I learn trig, they come upward inward fifty-fifty to a greater extent than handy! I'll definitely live hanging these dorsum upward inward my novel classroom since I'll live instruction Pre-Calc! You tin give the axe download this laid of posters here.


Above my pocket-sized bulletin board, I posted my YET posters which are purpose of my travail to promote a increment mindset inward my students. I don't desire to remove heed "I can't practise this." I desire to remove heed "I can't practise this YET!" You tin give the axe download your ain YET posters here.


Interested inward learning to a greater extent than nearly the "Chromaflies" my chemical scientific discipline students created using chromatography together with java filters? I blogged nearly the procedure here.


This Pi filing cabinet has been amongst me for my entire instruction career.

The overstep drawer currently holds my colored newspaper stash inward hanging files.


The other drawers are labeled alphabetically together with concord all of the activities I have got done inward my classroom for the yesteryear half dozen years.


Let's simply tell the drawers are filled to the brim!


I acquire lots of questions nearly how I kind my activities. Each activity is kept inward a plastic envelope. The build I job is no longer made, but you lot tin give the axe uncovering enough of other brands of plastic pouches on Amazon (affiliate link). I label each plastic pouch amongst a Post-It Super Sticky File Folder Label (affiliate link). I dearest that these are easily removable together with exit null residuum behind if I create upward one's heed to rename something or completely alter the contents of the envelope!


My eleven x 17 activities are also large to agree inward the filing cabinet, together with then they currently alive inward a newspaper box. They are also sorted alphabetically amongst Post-It notes every bit tabs.

The corner of my room holds ane of my most favorite classroom decorations ever - my math-y welcome banner. You tin give the axe download your ain banner here.


This side yesteryear side wall is ane of my favorites! The Adventures of Slope Dude posters acquire a lot of attending from students. Some students took to belongings their graphs upward together with then they could compare their gradient amongst the names of the slopes on the wall to banking concern check their work.



I absolutely dearest this coordinate plane dry out erase board, together with I am together with then distressing to exit it behind every bit I switch schools.

You tin give the axe download the horizontal together with vertical lettering that surrounds it here. The coordinate plane labels that include quadrants, x-axis, y-axis, together with beginning are genuinely magnetic together with then they tin give the axe live moved some every bit needed when you lot graph something on the board. You tin give the axe download the files for these magnets here


Up above, you lot volition uncovering my reminder to students to ever enquire themselves WWSDS - What Would Slope Dude Say? You tin give the axe download those posters here.


This Diatomic Elements poster was ofttimes referenced yesteryear my chemical scientific discipline students. They were broken hearted when I had to have got it downwards for the ACT. Download your ain re-create here.


Up Next: my What Should Your Answer Look Like? Posters. You tin give the axe download them here.


The overstep of my filing cabinet became a make-shift abode for some awards I have got received over the years.


I also made job of the side of the filing cabinet every bit a abode for some to a greater extent than posters. The N/O together with O/K posters are helpful for reminding students nearly the results of having zeros inward the numerator together with denominator of a fraction.

Below that, you lot volition run into the poster featuring the names of every educatee who has acquire a fellow member of the Fraternity of Petals Around the Rose since I started using that puzzle inward class. Students dearest looking at the poster together with spotting names of other students. I'm a chip distressing that switching schools way that I volition demand to start a novel poster for this purpose. But, I'm certain it volition live filled upward within a few years!


My dark storage cabinet held my naming polynomials poster. I never wrote an private post service nearly this poster, but you lot tin give the axe download the file for it here

 

My large bulletin board spent most of the twelvemonth belongings the SolveMe mobiles that my math concepts students created.


Above the bulletin board, I created a reference for students amongst perfect squares together with perfect cubes.




I kept finding that nosotros needed to know if higher numbers were perfect squares, together with then I ended upward adding a listing of "More Perfect Squares." 


The thermostat was inward a genuinely weird seat inward this classroom. I added a reminder to students to non touching on the thermostat, but it didn't genuinely work. :(


Along the dorsum wall, I hung the stellated iscosahedrons that I created a few years agone using straws together with curling ribbon. I followed the directions on this blog.



These opened upward shelves on my dorsum wall were abode to most of my scientific discipline supplies.


The cabinets held other supplies together with were perfect for hanging posters on!


The supplies that students needed to access were stored inward these labeled drawers.


During the showtime calendar week of school, I took a page from Sara VanDerWerf's playbook together with showed my students the escalator together with beagle videos mentioned inward here.


The cabinets were abode to their ain laid of posters.

Roman Numerals were useful for my chemical scientific discipline students when writing the names of chemic formulas.


These pregnant figure posters were used a lot yesteryear my chemical scientific discipline students because pregnant figures ended upward beingness a grapple ALL YEAR LONG. Download these posters here.



This prefix poster was used yesteryear students when naming covalent compounds. Download it here.


I uncovering that students often confuse accuracy vs. precision, together with then I created a laid of posters to illustrate these concepts that tin give the axe live downloaded here.


One of the most referenced decorations inward my classroom is this laid of Includes vs. Excludes posters for graphing inequalities.


We've made it to the finally wall of the classroom. This wall features my xvi human foot long dry out erase board that my parents bought me off of craigslist because my showtime ever classroom had null dry out erase boards.


Along the top, I have got hung math symbol posters. These tin give the axe live downloaded here.  


I designated purpose of the dry out erase board every bit a abode for no hollo papers.

Another department held some posters I made to assist students amongst translating betwixt algebra together with words. I all the same demand to spider web log nearly this!


The tabular array nether my dry out erase board held lots of ofttimes referenced/used materials.


All of the extra copies of worksheets/notebook pages lived inward these hanging files.


This 3 drawer container held notebook paper, graph paper, together with patently re-create newspaper for educatee use.


These 3 journal holders held tabular array folders. These were a success for my chemical scientific discipline class. They weren't such a success amongst my Algebra 1 together with Math Concepts classes. I demand to recall nearly if I desire to job them over again side yesteryear side year.


One lifesaver I implemented for the showtime fourth dimension this twelvemonth was an appointment calendar. Students wrote their hollo downwards if they planned on coming inward before school, after school, or at lunch. This helped me figure out if I had fourth dimension to croak together with run copies at dejeuner or if I needed to hang some my classroom to assist students.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 magnetic holder was placed on the dry out erase board that held a marking together with eraser for students to job to sign upward on the appointment calendar.


I also ended upward designating a house on the dry out erase board to post service the dejeuner card each month. Even though it was on my to practise listing for months, I never got some to creating a Lunch Menu sign to hang higher upward it...


I read somewhere that hanging a mirror would cutting downwards on the seat out of times that students asked to exit together with croak to the restroom. Not certain if it genuinely helped, but it did occasionally come upward inward handy!


By the door, I hung my flags together with some schoolhouse required signs.


I also chose this every bit the abode for my Keep Calm together with Combine Like Terms Poster.


I also used my classroom door to give myself a chip to a greater extent than room to hang posters. My door is abode to my order of operations posters.


New this twelvemonth was a laid of posters nearly what characteristics that graphs should have. We're relatively unopen to Tulsa, together with then I took wages of that fact when making this laid of posters! You tin give the axe download it here.


 I wrote a grant this twelvemonth for some manipulatives for instruction fractions. As purpose of that grant, I got some novel stuff to hang on my wall. This Equivalency Center is available from Amazon (affiliate link).


I bought this 100 seat out chart (affiliate link) from Amazon myself before this year.  The fraction magnets were purchased every bit purpose of the grant I mentioned earlier. They are available from EAI Education.


Another belatedly add-on to the classroom ornamentation scene was this set of triangular seat out posters


And, that's a wrap! I promise you lot enjoyed this picayune tour of my 2017-2018 classroom. Hopefully, I'll have got pictures of my novel classroom upward inward a few months instead of waiting until the entire side yesteryear side schoolhouse twelvemonth is over... 

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