My Algebra 1 students simply finished upwardly their showtime unit of measurement on Thursday. This year, I am attempting to model my Algebra 1 course of pedagogy on the
Kagan Cooperative Learning Algebra 1 curriculum. As I'm getting to know my students, I take away maintain made some adjustments. Okay. I've made a ton of adjustments. My Algebra 1 students this yr seem to hold upwardly at a lower degree than final year's students. Let's simply say it's going to hold upwardly an interesting year...
I'm so excited to portion alongside y'all what my students' interactive notebooks consist of thence far! Link to download the files is at the destination of the post. Hope these tin hold upwardly of some purpose to you!
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| Algebra 1 Interactive Notebook |
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| Unit 1 Table of Contents |
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| 3 Requirements for a Good Definition |
The Kagan curriculum I am using focuses on having students railroad train their ain definitions for the vocabulary words for each unit. This is an alone novel approach to me. I'm used to simply giving the students the definition in addition to having them write it down. I'm kinda obsessed alongside the Frayer Model.
I'm enjoying the approach, however, of having students examine examples in addition to counterexamples to determine what a news agency for themselves. Time volition tell if this leads to a higher degree of agreement in addition to recall. The showtime lesson of the yr focused on what a practiced definition consists of. Our 3 requirements for a practiced definition were: 1) states the term, 2) states the nearest classification, in addition to 3) states those items that brand it unique.
We practiced a lot alongside this. I used some examples provided inward the mass to give my students the chance to practise writing a definition that had absolutely zip to make alongside mathematics. Students were given a infinitesimal or 2 to examine the zingers in addition to thingmabobs. Then, each pupil wrote their ain definition based on the examples in addition to counterexamples. Next, each individual inward the grouping shared their definition alongside the residual of the group. Each grouping discussed everybody's definition in addition to combined the best parts of each definition into i grouping definition. Finally, nosotros discussed the grouping definitions every bit a course of pedagogy in addition to wrote i course of pedagogy definition. The procedure is rattling fourth dimension consuming. But, it produces AMAZING discussions. So, I think it's worth it.
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| Writing Good Definitions Practice |
Since I used images from
this book, I cannot postal service these files to download. If y'all are interested inward these resources, y'all may buy the mass
here.
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| Unit 1 Vocabulary Foldables |
My students repeated this procedure for our 10 vocabulary words for unit of measurement 1. They completed the "My Definition" department every bit homework. And, the entire side past times side course of pedagogy menstruum was spent creating grouping in addition to course of pedagogy definitions. These were formatted every bit 2 book-type foldables that students glued inward their interactive notebooks. I dearest that these foldables capture the procedure that students went through to write their ain definition.
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| The Real Number System Graphic Organizer |
We summarized the existent number organisation using the graphic organizer that I created final year. It felt practiced to hold upwardly able to reuse something from final yr instead of creating something alone novel from scratch!
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| Exploring Rational in addition to Irrational Numbers Foldable - Outside |
This is a painting present of a foldable that I created for my students to purpose every bit they walked through an exploration activity. This activity did non become every bit planned. I persuasion it would take away maintain i course of pedagogy period. After i course of pedagogy period, nosotros had only started to scratch the surface. I ended upwardly never finishing this activity alongside my students because I felt a demand to displace on. Still, I desire to portion this activity alongside y'all inward the hopes that someone mightiness hold upwardly inspired to take away maintain this in addition to brand it meliorate or at to the lowest degree give me insight on why it didn't quite work.
This activity was created alongside N-RN.3
(3. Explain why the amount or production of 2 rational numbers is rational; that the amount of a rational number in addition to an irrational number is irrational; in addition to that the production of a nonzero rational number in addition to an irrational number is irrational.) in mind. I had some blank sticker yell badges inward my desk. So, I took a Sharpie in addition to wrote diverse rational in addition to irrational numbers on each yell badge. As students came inward the classroom, they got to alternative a random number from the pile. After a brief introduction to the TI-30 Scientific Calculator, students were instructed to partner upwardly in addition to create total out the showtime describe of piece of work of this chart. They would create total inward their number, the classification of their number (rational or irrational), their partner's number, their partner's number's classification, in addition to the performance of addition. Using the scientific calculator, students would add together the 2 numbers together, tape the result, in addition to and then determine whether the number was rational or irrational. Find a novel partner. Repeat until the showtime 5 lines take away maintain been filled in.
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| Exploring Rational in addition to Irrational Numbers Foldable - Inside |
After completing 5 add-on operations, nosotros would take away maintain a course of pedagogy discussion. I was hoping that students would become far at the fact (on their own) that a rational plus a rational is ever rational, an irrational plus a rational is ever irrational, etc. This went semi-well. Some of my classes struggled alongside this way to a greater extent than than others. None of my classes made it to division. One course of pedagogy barely made it through subtraction.
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| Rational in addition to Irrational Number Name Badges |
What I didn't concern human relationship for was the sheer amount of fourth dimension that it took for my students to partner up, make the calculations, in addition to create total out this chart. This ended upwardly feeling similar an entire waste materials of a course of pedagogy menstruum because it was a lot of locomote alongside rattling niggling to present for it. I ended upwardly doing most of the talking in addition to discovering during our regain menstruum which was frustrating.
I soundless desire to pose this persuasion out there, though. I think it's practiced to weblog virtually the lessons that become well, the lessons that are simply mediocre, in addition to the lessons that don't become every bit planned.
And, yes, I'm the crazy instructor who wore a sticker around ALL DAY that read 3/8. I pose it on during showtime lx minutes because I had an strange number of students. So, I truly went through the activity alongside my students. I didn't take away maintain off my sticker because I figured I would simply take away maintain to brand some other i to article of apparel for 3rd lx minutes in addition to 6th hour. Third hour, nosotros had a burn downwards drill. Of course, I got asked past times everyone I saw why I was wearing a number on my shirt. The math instructor definitely came out inward my answer every bit I explained that I wasn't simply wearing whatever number, but a rational number. Conversation ensued virtually what a rational number was. Yes, I'm that instructor who takes every chance possible to instruct my kiddos something mathematical!
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| Me alongside My Rational Number Badge |
Later that morning, nosotros had our tornado drill. As the students huddled inward the stairwell, the teachers stood inward the hall. The history instructor looked at me in addition to said, "So, you're less than half?" Confused, I asked her to repeat the question. "So, you're less than half?" Still confused, I decided that I would simply grip alongside the history instructor in addition to become on downwards the route fifty-fifty though I had no persuasion what she was talking about. Luckily, she motioned toward my sticker, in addition to I realized that she was referring to the fraction I was proudly wearing. The other teachers inward my edifice are used to my crazy methods that I purpose to instruct math past times now, so they weren't that surprised.
What did surprise me was my statistics students. I take away maintain a course of pedagogy of 5 juniors who are taking statistics every bit their upper degree math elective. Statistics is the only course of pedagogy that nosotros offering our students higher upwardly Algebra 2. These are our best in addition to brightest math students who take away maintain chosen to take away maintain their math course of pedagogy at our schoolhouse instead of our local Career Tech center. Of course, they had to inquire virtually my lovely sticker that I was wearing. I explained why I was wearing it, in addition to I told them virtually all the crazy conversations I had had that morn every bit a result. What make my students determine to do? They determine that they desire to brand their ain stickers alongside numbers on them to article of apparel around the schoolhouse for the residual of the day. There are kids who dearest math, in addition to I'm so thankful that I larn the jeopardy to instruct them! (I'm thankful for my students who don't dearest math, too. But, that's some other postal service for some other day!)
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| Integer Operations Foldable - Outside |
After using two-colored counters to derive the rules for adding, subtracting, multiplying, in addition to dividing integers, I had my students create a four-door foldable to summarize the results of their findings.
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| Integer Operations Foldable - Inside |
Inside, nosotros wrote the rules for each type of occupation in addition to included several examples of each for students to refer to.
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| Order of Operations Graphic Organizer |
The final topic covered inward Unit 1 was the social club of operations. I did non follow the approach set out inward the Kagan curriculum for this topic. I attempted to accommodate final year's interactive notebook set-up for this topic. But, I added novel activities in addition to songs every bit an effort to achieve students that I felt similar I had non reached during our locomote alongside integer operations. I'm hoping that I volition take away maintain fourth dimension this weekend to create a postal service of the resources I used from other blogs to instruct each major topic for this unit. Next year, I'd dearest to hold upwardly able to come upwardly dorsum in addition to regain the links of all the resources I used the previous year.
Files are uploaded
here.
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