Monday Must Reads: Book 4

Things convey been pretty placidity on the weblog front end since the last book of Mon Must Reads. I had multiple posts I wanted to write, but I had to exercise some tough honey too non allow myself write whatsoever to a greater extent than weblog posts until my state instructor of the yr application was finished. I'm cheating a fleck past times writing this weblog ship service today because my application withal isn't technically finished, but it's finished plenty that I could submit it if it wasn't for my perfectionism. I've withal got lots of edits to brand on my 7 (!) essays. It turns out that my writing mode is a fleck to a greater extent than wordy than what the commission is looking for.  Each essay has a maximum length of entirely i or 2 double-spaced pages amongst 12 indicate font too i inch margins. That's non a lot of room!

I estimate I do demand to truly brand cry on this weblog that I was named both Drumright High School's Teacher of the Year too Drumright Public Schools Teacher of the Year. The kickoff abide by came amongst a cheque for $500 too the minute abide by volition come upward amongst an additional $500 cheque i time my Oklahoma Teacher of the Year application is submitted.

Without farther ado, hither are the weblog posts too tweets that I considered to live must reads this week.

Teach180 tweets. The snapshot she provides into her classroom is incredibly inspiring, too I notice myself wanting to live a pupil inward her class!  In a Teach180 tweets from the year. This classroom highlight reel is a process to read!  And, y'all should definitely visit joining inward adjacent yr amongst the #Teach180 hashtag.  I mightiness fifty-fifty convey to pocket Liz's watch too create my ain weblog ship service amongst my favorite tweets of the year.  What an incredible means to reverberate on the halt of i schoolhouse yr equally nosotros get to gear upward for the next!

Norma Gordon created an awesome #SmudgedMath activeness involving interquartile hit too box-and-whisker plots. I honey the pupil thinking required inward an activeness similar this.  Norma's #SmudgedMath tasks tin live downloaded here.

Yah Lee's recent tweet virtually using a visual to assist students solve equations has got me thinking a lot virtually how I desire to approach solving equations amongst my Algebra 1 students adjacent year. Last year, I used a combination of the catamenia nautical chart method too the traditional approach. I would honey to acquire away from the traditional approach, but I too desire to brand certain that whichever approach I purpose tin live used when in that place are variables on both side of the equal sign.

I'm non certain this tweet from Fawn Nguyen needs an introduction. #TRUTH

Probability Bingo. My students honey this game too acquire super competitive every fourth dimension nosotros play! Liz Mastalio latterly flora a means to cook i of the most annoying aspects of the activeness past times using shapes instead of colors. It's too thence much easier to make 2 die for the activeness past times gluing on shapes instead of trying to color the die too dealing amongst the colors rubbing off. Yes, I beak from experience.  

Mr. B's tweet caught my optic because it helps illustrate a solution to a employment many of my algebra students have. Most of my students tin solve this type of employment inward their heads, but I've never been truly certain how to assist those students who fighting to sympathize where the missing value is coming from. 

I latterly had my kickoff breakout box sense equally business office of the Tulsa Math Teachers' Circle. I've been toying amongst using the watch inward my ain classroom, but I didn't desire to pass a lot of coin on a bunch of dissimilar locks. Nick Waldron created an activeness that caught my optic because it allows students to do lots of math practise but entirely requires a unmarried lock.

I honey using logic puzzles inward my math class, but I oft convey issues amongst students trying to do a puzzle without kickoff fully agreement the rules. Molly Rawding's novel approach to introducing KenKen puzzles is a vivid means to solve this problem!

If I always acquire the gamble to instruct statistics again, I definitely desire to notice a means to acquire my hands on some of these stats stencils that Will Davies tweeted about.  Can y'all tell I'm a fleck anxious virtually the fact that I don't know what classes I'm didactics yet for adjacent year?

Jennifer Michaelis is making me want that I could instruct trig i time again adjacent year. How awesome are these plexi-glass graphs that allow for instant trig graph transformations?!?

For the 4 years I taught Algebra 2, I taught my students that roots, solutions, zeros, too x-intercepts were all the same thing. Today, I learned the truth thank y'all to David Butler. It makes too thence much sense, too I want I could exceed dorsum too re-teach my old students why in that place are too thence many dissimilar words. Special thank y'all to Matt Enlow for taking David's tweet too turning it into a catchy image! 

And, here's Matt's awesome visual of this: 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/CmonMattTHINK/status/866677313743835137/photo/1

And, that's all of the weblog too twitter awesomeness I convey until adjacent time.  Remember, my Mon Must Reads ship service may exceed a fleck sporadic over the summertime due to other obligations.  Keep sharing, #MTBoS!

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