Monday Must Reads: Volume 41
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Happy Monday! It’s once again time to create a round-up of the most awesome tweets from the past week. These are my must-reads. I hope you find some inspiring ideas.
Visual Number Puzzle
Check out this awesome visual-based problem for elementary from Berkeley Everett.
Parabolas Scavenger Hunt
Mr. Hogg has created an awesome scavenger hunt that combines the properties of parabolas with the location of the next clue.
Function Notation Open Middle Puzzle
Chase Orton shares an open middle problem that provides some much-needed practice with function notation.
Distributive Property Puzzles
Greta Bergman inspires with her distributive property puzzles. Find out more by reading her blog post.
Positive or Negative Auction
Michelle Pavlovsky created an auction activity that focuses on whether expressions evaluate to positive or negative values. This looks awesome!
Barbie Bungee
Dan Meyer‘s Barbie Bungee video is a must-watch. Click through to the tweet to watch!
Inspiring Classroom Transformations
Adela Alekic is an expert at transforming her classroom for different lessons. Her twitter account is super-inspiring. Be sure to check it out!
Slope Dude Says INB Pages
These notes from Jae Ess are one of the most adorable sets of INB pages I have ever seen!
Rate of Change Review Game
Jae Ess also shares a fun-looking function and rate of change review game.
Circle Warm-Up
I love this warm-up question from Lisa Bejarano.
Quadratics WODB
I also have to share Lisa‘s WODB warm-up involving quadratics.
Sara Van Der Werf Quote
Lisa Winer had the brilliant idea to post this inspiring quote from Sara Van Der Werf on her laptop.
Clue Scale Factor Lesson
Lisa Richardson shares an awesome Clue-based lesson that addresses scale factor.
Pockets Data Collection Question
I love this data analysis question shared by Laurie Boswell.
Desmos Tangrams
Mark Kaercher shares some tangrams made with Desmos. Very cool!
Pinwheel Tiling
Philip Smith shares some amazing student artwork.
Desmos Inspired String Art
Also, check out this string art inspired by Desmos.
Chalk Cardiods
I also love the idea of chalk cardioids.
Inspiring Math Art
I hope you’re not tired of seeing the awesome math-art created by Philip Smith‘s students because I must share one more photo so you can see the art that also lines the walls of his classroom.
Slope Open Middle Puzzle
John Rowe shares a new open-middle problem for practicing slope.
Visual Pattern Manipulatives
Heather Curl‘s use of manipulatives with visual patterns is inspiring.
Creating Composite Figures with Tape
How cool is is that Brian McBain has his students create composite figures with tape?
Easter Family Breakout Box
I also adore the fact that Brian McBain used a break-out box with his family for Easter.
Desmos Maze Project
Kim Spek inspires with a maze-based Desmos project.
Interactive Word Wall
Sue Choi shares the idea of an interactive word wall. How awesome is this?!?
Exponent Wonderings
Julie Morgan shares an anecdote from class. I absolutely love her response!
Lobster Roll Prompt
Heidi Fessenden highlights an awesome question based on a very cool image of lobster rolls.
Laser Cut Tessellations
Kathy Henderson shares more of the awesome tessellations her students created.
Rational Exponents Stand and Talk
Ms. Mac shares a single, powerful image for teaching rational exponents using a Stand & Talk.
Scholarship Calculations
Andrea Pope brings real-world math into her classroom by having students calculate how much they could make per hour for filling out scholarship applications.
Card-iac Game
Vincent Pantaloni is at it again with an interesting looking puzzle/game called Card-iac.
Fraction Task
LC Dawson turns a picture of a vintage office set into a creative fraction task.
Creative Quarter the Cross Solution
Jeremy Hughes shares a fun solution to Quarter the Cross. Jeremy is a pre-service STEM teacher in Australia. I love that he is already on twitter!
The Wonder and Beauty of Math
Tori Cox shares a way to incorporate the wonder and beauty of mathematics into your classroom.
Bad Pictogram Example
Need an example of a bad graph? Richard Perring has got you covered!
Different Representations of the Same Quadratics Problem
Catriona Shearer has blown my mind with how many different ways she represented the problem x^2 + 8x – 48 = 0. Wow. Just wow.
Until next week, keep up the awesome sharing!