Octm Recap: Taking The Practise Out Of The Worksheet

For the past times few days, I've been recapping diverse sessions that Shaun as well as I attended at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Summer Conference.  So far, I've recapped High Yield Geometry Routines as well as Fun Functions.  Today, I desire to part what I learned from a session called "Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet" past times Judy Schwarz (her advert is misspelled below).  There are SO many expert ideas inwards here!  Apologies inwards advance for the painting demonstrate overload that this post service is certain to become!

I gauge I didn't read real carefully because I didn't realize this was a geometry session.  Thankfully, fifty-fifty though a lot of the ideas are for geometry, they tin give the axe hold out modified for whatsoever math classroom.  The facilitator simply happens to learn geometry, as well as thus that's what cast most of her ideas are in.  

If...Then Posters

The initiative of all thought that Judy shared was to receive got students brand "If...Then" posters at the showtime of the schoolhouse year.  She said she oft has students do this earlier they've ever fifty-fifty talked nigh conditional statements.  If I retrieve correctly, she commonly has students consummate this equally homework.  But, if you lot receive got access to a stack of magazines, you lot could fifty-fifty receive got students do it inwards course of report during the initiative of all week.  

Here are some examples she brought to demonstrate us:

And, hither are my interpretations:

If you lot consume spicy food, you lot demand to brush your teeth. 

If you lot ain a lot of dogs, you lot receive got to purchase a lot of domestic dog food. 

If you lot acquire caught drinking as well as driving, you lot volition terminate upward inwards jail.  

The facilitator said she hangs these upward unopen to the classroom for 2d decorations.  Then, when they get down the unit of measurement on conditional statements, she has students piece of work problems from the posters made past times their students instead of from the problems inwards the textbook.  Students volition receive got to selection a poster from the room as well as write the converse, contrapositive, etc.  By starting alongside real-life examples, students are to a greater extent than engaged.  Eventually, they do motion on to the problems inwards the textbook.  

I dear this idea, as well as it kinda makes me lamentable I'm non pedagogy geometry...  

Stump The Teacher

Next, Judy shared an action she uses occasionally alongside her students: Stump the Teacher.  It goes equally follows:

* Give students a textbook department to read.  Set a timer.  

* When the timer goes off, the instructor closes his/her textbook.  

* Students accept turns shout out for the instructor questions that could hold out flora inwards that textbook section.  

* If a pupil is able to stump the teacher, he/she gets a pocket-sized prize.  (Judy says she gives 1 signal extra credit when a pupil is able to stump her.)  

* After the instructor feels similar she has an thought of the students' agreement of the concept based on their questions, the tables are turned.  Now, the students unopen their textbooks as well as the instructor starts calling on students to respond questions.  

This action gets students reading as well as re-reading equally they sweat to formulate questions to ask.  Students demand to mean value nigh what the principal ideas of the lesson are as well as what mutual sources of errors mightiness be.  The instructor makes certain to clitoris out of import ideas non brought upward past times students when it is his/her plough to inquire questions.  

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quick google search led me to some other interactive notebook dividers for adjacent year?  I'm already thinking nigh replacing the combat alongside the pretty painting demonstrate to hold out a identify for them to tape their gain 10 list.  

Around the World

This is an thought I've used inwards my ain classroom, but I've e'er referred to it equally a "Scavenger Hunt." 

Sheets of newspaper are placed unopen to the classroom.  Each canvas has a employment as well as an respond (to a dissimilar problem.)  

Students select 1 poster to start at.  After working out the solution to the employment on that poster, they search the other posters for the poster containing the appropriate answer.  Then, they solve the employment on that poster.  This procedure continues until you lot circle dorsum unopen to to where you lot started.  

Picasso Polygon Portrait

Students are given a laid of requirements of what must hold out inwards their self-portrait.  Students MUST move a ruler when completing the project.    

Here's what a finished portrait looks like:

Students peer aeroplane each other's projects using a rubric.  

I actually liked Judy's explanation of how she has her students peer aeroplane each others' projects.  She takes upward all of the projects, shuffles them, as well as hands them dorsum to students to grade.  She makes certain that best friends aren't grading each other's work.  Students move a re-create of the rubric to aeroplane some other student's project.  When students are done grading, they accept the master copy projection as well as the rubric as well as deliver it to the pupil it belongs to.  Each pupil looks at the rubric as well as decides if they concur alongside the aeroplane they receive got been given.  If a pupil disagrees alongside the means they receive got been graded, they accept a colored canvas of newspaper as well as staple it to the gain of the projection alongside why they disagree alongside the aeroplane the other pupil gave them.  When the instructor is entering grades, he/she simply demand to double banking concern gibe the projects that receive got colored sheets of newspaper on top.  

Leap Frog

The adjacent action nosotros did was called Leap Frog.  This was a review game that was totally novel to me.  That's e'er exciting to experience at a conference! 

Each pupil is given a deck of cards.  This volition hold out their respond bank.  Judy suggested printing each deck on a separate color of paper.  If this isn't feasible, receive got the initiative of all laid of students who move each deck write their initials on the dorsum of each card.  Then, if a menu gets dropped inwards the flooring during clean-up, it tin give the axe easily hold out reunited alongside its friends.  

Students adjust their desks inwards a circle, as well as each pupil lays out their deck of cards.

We played Leap Frog unopen to 2 rectangular tables.  This worked, too.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 employment is projected on the board.

When a pupil figures out the respond (or what they mean value the respond is) they catch the respond menu as well as enshroud it as well as thus none of their neighbors tin give the axe see.

When fourth dimension is called, each somebody compares the respond menu inwards their paw alongside the respond menu inwards their neighbor's hand.  The instructor announces the right answer.  Everyone returns their respond menu to the deck inwards forepart of them.  Those students who got the respond right stand upward as well as rotate desks to the right.

The goal of the game is to hold out the initiative of all pupil to acquire inwards all the means dorsum to where you lot started past times "leap frogging" over other players.

The facilitator said she has used this alongside nifty success alongside her Pre-AP Geometry classes.  I tin give the axe definitely meet the competitive nature of this action working for to a greater extent than advanced students.  But, I'm non certain if I'd desire to move this alongside my Algebra 1 classes.  I tin give the axe meet my IEP students getting very, real frustrated.  My trig as well as statistics classes, on the other hand, would likely receive got a lot of fun alongside this.

Some of the audience members expressed that making upward a deck of cards was also much work, as well as they suggested having students write their answers on a dry out erase board.

One other describe of piece of work organization I receive got alongside this action is that I mean value it mightiness hold out a tad combat also slow for students to cheat.  I was sitting right adjacent to Shaun, as well as it would receive got been real slow to simply hold off for him to selection upward his respond as well as selection upward the same answer.  Of course, students tin give the axe cheat alongside many review games past times simply looking at what their neighbors are doing.  I gauge the solely somebody they are punishing is themselves.

The final few things nosotros did during the hour-long workshop was to circulate betwixt 3 tables alongside to a greater extent than ideas of exercise activities that don't involve simply doing a worksheet.  Each tabular array had a canvas explaining each activity.  Instead of trying to lay each action into my ain words, I'm simply posting the painting demonstrate I took of each sheet.

Sorting Activities

Self-Checking Activities

Miscellaneous Activities

I actually liked having the describe on a transparency where students could simply motion it around.  I thought this was super clever!

And, that's a wrap.  This was such an awesome session to attend!  

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