What Should My Answer Expect Like? Posters

I spent most of this morn making novel posters for my classroom in addition to most of this afternoon writing quizzes (4 versions of each) for our firstly unit of measurement inwards trigonometry. I think it's in conclusion hitting me that schoolhouse is RIGHT around the corner. We bring PD Days this coming Th in addition to Friday. And, I'll bring students on the 22nd.

One matter I desire to hap this twelvemonth is belongings my students to higher expectations alongside how they write out their answers to math problems. I'm making an endeavor this twelvemonth to laissez passer on my students to a greater extent than problems that are embedded inwards a context. This way it's fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of import to brand certain my students are writing their answers alongside the context of the interrogation inwards mind.

In the past, I've had a sign upward inwards my classroom to remind my students that in that place should live on "No naked numbers." In this case, "naked numbers" are numbers written without a unit. But, I've never given my students plenty problems alongside units to live on able to justify this. That's changing this year!

Here's the expectations I've come upward up alongside for how students should write their answers:

* Show all your thinking. I bring some students who claim they shouldn't bring to demo whatsoever locomote because they did it inwards their head. I seat a complaint below to remind them that fifty-fifty if they create it inwards their head, they withal demand to write something down.

* Use consummate sentences. It's difficult to write a consummate judgement alongside your reply without looking dorsum to what the interrogation was asking. So, inwards a way, I'm tricking my students to acquire them to read the interrogation again. :)

* Include the question's context. I don't desire (4,5) to live on an okay reply to a arrangement of equations problem. I desire to remove heed that 4 candy bars damage the same amount ($5) at Store Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 in addition to Store B.

* No Naked Numbers. If the work has units, my students' answers should bring units.

* No Magic Numbers. The other work I encounter is that students volition only write an reply in addition to no locomote because they used their calculator. Magic Numbers are numbers that come upward out nowhere. If a pupil does a calculation on their calculator, I desire them to write out what they typed inwards their calculator. I learned this phrase from mortal I can't retrieve on twitter, but my married adult man tells me it's truly a information processor scientific discipline term.

Here's some close-ups:

I'm thinking I'm going to seat these along the exceed of my dry out erase board to live on a constant reminder to students every bit they are writing out their answers. I know this is i of those things I'm going to bring to live on super strict almost at the showtime of the twelvemonth if I desire my students to follow through alongside it.

Here are the files for these posters. I've uploaded them every bit an editable publisher file in addition to a non-editable PDF file. For the Publisher file, you'll demand these fonts: Caviar Dreams in addition to Wellfleet. If you lot don't desire to fuss alongside fonts, only download the PDF version. :)