Monday Must Reads: Book 30

Happy Monday! I promise y'all had a bully weekend. My weekend wasn't super exciting, but I was able to knock quite a few things off my to-do list. I submitted a proposal for the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Summer Conference. I haven't presented at a conference inwards several years, then I'm excited well-nigh the opportunity! I'm also excited to portion this week's book of Mon Must Reads. This is a regular serial where I portion bully ideas I select ran across late on twitter in addition to inwards the blogs I subscribe to.

Mr. Knowles has been doing some awesome operate amongst creating rich tasks that address sequences.

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I've used several of Andy Lutwyche's awesome spider-style activities inwards my classroom over the past times few years. I was excited to encounter that he has shared a novel spider activity for venn diagrams! You tin download Andy's files on TES.

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Jennifer Williams shares an intriguing thought for how to acquire students reflecting on their learning later on receiving their graded tests back. I gave upwardly chapter/unit tests for exclusively private SBG science quizzes several years ago, but this postal service has me thinking well-nigh possibilities for side past times side year!

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Preparing to celebrate the 100th Day of School? Jennifer shares a creative thought for celebrating that involves having students do 100 problems for their classmates to solve.

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 I dear this display from TIBHS that features famous mathematicians from to a greater extent than or less the world.

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Here's some other display that caught my oculus on Twitter from Park Junior School. I would similar to extend this projection to laissez passer on students a line of piece of work to depict Christmas ornaments based on the circumference, area, radius, or diameter. 

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Ms. Johnston shares some awesome geometric valentines her students created final year.

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Another bully thought from Ms. Johnston: Have students purpose die to model how many boxes of cereal ane would select to purchase to collect all half-dozen prizes.

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Coach Lombo shares a fun means to celebrate e Day.

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Amy McNabb took a dissimilar but as appropriate approach to celebrating e Day amongst foods that laid out amongst e.

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Now that e Day is over, it's fourth dimension to starting fourth dimension prepping for Pi Day. Here's a Pi Day Sudoku Puzzle shared past times Cliff Pickover.

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Denis Sheeran shares some other thought for celebrating Pi Day that involves a circle drawing contest.  Check out all the details here.

Looking for some interesting information to purpose amongst your students? I highly recommend checking out the NBA Math Twitter Account.

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Tveen Jatabachian shares a bully thought for using painters record on desks to practise measurement angles. I dear the thought of having students rotate through stations to a greater extent than or less the classroom.

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Looking to promote educatee inventiveness in addition to decorate the walls of your classroom a fleck more? Gateways Classics suggests creating a "Graffiti Wall."

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Looking to better grouping conversations in addition to discussions inwards your classroom? Check out this thought of mapping conversations from Nicole Bolduc.

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I dear this event of real-world experimental probability from Anne Wagenaar.

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Paul Jorgens combines several awesome things into one: factoring polynomials, opened upwardly middle occupation structure, in addition to Desmos.

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Paul shares some other factoring puzzle amongst a missing coefficient.

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I dear how the Olympics brings out inventiveness inwards then many dissimilar classrooms. I particularly dear the thought of Olympic Sock Speed Skating from Lisa Rode!

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Mrs. Jane Pontes has also got inwards the Olympic spirit past times having her seventh graders host a Barbie Math Olympics.

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L Hamiter poses an interesting question. What do these 3 equations select inwards common?

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If geometry is to a greater extent than your thing, cheque out this awesome surface area puzzle from L Hamiter!

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Susan Pienta is making me desire to acquire dorsum in addition to redo my entire unit of measurement on scatter plots merely then I tin include this activity.

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Amanda Schweissguth shares some awesome educatee work. I dear that students had to color-code their artwork past times angle type.

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It's no hush-hush that I dear dry out erase templates. So, I was super excited when I saw Lin W created a dry out erase template for naming ionic compounds inwards chemistry.

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Want to purpose upwardly some of your students' liberate energy in addition to collect some real-world information for charge per unit of measurement of modify at the same time? Check out this thought from Sarah Clooney.

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Also from Sarah Clooney: An awesome activity for systems of equations involving riddles in addition to cups of coins.

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Professor Smudge shares an equation-solving line of piece of work that has students apply what they know from ane equation to another.

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Eric Zuercher has produced a business office machine that tells me I demand to upwardly my business office machine game!

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Taylor Grant shares what is, inwards my opinion, the most creative Which One Doesn't Belong? puzzle ever.

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Mr. Zummo offers a bully thought for pedagogy tendency lines when creating scatter plots. I never would select thought of using string as the line of best fit!

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Elissa Miller shares a bully thought for using patty newspaper inwards geometry.

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Have some deer antlers around? They brand the perfect manipulative for practicing adding fractions. This creative thought comes from Kelsey Brown.

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Lisa Broadbent shares an thought for getting students upwardly in addition to moving to a greater extent than or less the classroom piece translating betwixt words in addition to equations.

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Lori Breyfogle shares a bully inquiry to pose to your students. My students the other hateful solar daytime had no occupation when nosotros arrived at v = thirteen as the answer to a question, then I'm curious how my ain students (in high school) would respond.

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Ann Arden retweets a re-create of a painting exhibit poster where the math is ALL wrong. How would your students translate this solution mathematically?

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David Sladkey shares a fun-looking puzzle.

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David also shares an interesting postal service well-nigh his "Eraser Ban."

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David also shares a fun, fall-themed puzzle. You could easily modify the subject to this puzzle for purpose whatever fourth dimension of year, though.

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How would your students fare amongst this estimation challenge that is also from David Sladkey?

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Rachael WS suggests giving your students this puzzle to brand them intend exterior the box.

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I'm super-inspired past times this honour the mistake line of piece of work from Jae Ess. I demand to do to a greater extent than mistake analysis amongst my students!

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Until side past times side week, proceed upwardly the awesome thought sharing!

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