My new school year starts next week, so that means it is time to put together this year’s free printable lesson plan book. In case you want to create one for yourself, I am sharing the files so you can print and customize your own lesson plan book for the 2022-2023 school year. This free …
I typed up this Domino Pyramid Puzzle from L.P. Mochalov to use with these sets of dominoes that I purchased last summer from Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree’s dominoes (shown below on the right) are slightly smaller than a standard-sized domino, but you definitely can’t beat the price! I was reminded the other day when posting …
Last year, I created a copy of the chess cube puzzle for my classroom. Over the last few years, I have made quite a few puzzles for my classroom out of wooden cubes including the Gambler’s Die Puzzle, Instant Insanity, Three Immovable Pentablocks, SOMA blocks, and Genius Blocks. When I ran across another puzzle that …
Left Center Right was first published by George & Company LLC in 1992. It is an entirely luck-based dice game for groups of three or more players. I received a copy of the game several years ago for a gift, and I have been using it in my math classroom ever since then! I have …
Tenzi is one of my favorite games to use in the math classroom for data collection activities. I love Tenzi because the rules are super easy and fast to explain to students, and the sheer variety of ways to play keeps students (and me as the teacher) from getting bored! A few years ago when …
I find that one of my most-referenced set of posters in my classroom is these equality and inequality symbols posters. If you checked out my recent post with the photos of my classroom from this past 2021-2022, you might not remember seeing them. That’s because I took them down to hang up my Powers Posters. …
Looking for ideas to decorate your middle school or high school math classroom? Every year, I put together a classroom tour of sorts of my plethora of high school math classroom decorations. Since it’s now August and I need to think about this coming school year’s math decor, I decided I needed to reflect on …
Last year, I started my pre-calculus class off with geometry review. The first topic we tackled was finding missing angles in triangles. This set of notes was the perfect opportunity to pull out some of my favorite school supplies: colored pens and highlighters! The purpose of these notes was to review three key geometry concepts …
Here in Oklahoma, the school year has come to an end. Given that some states still have a month or so left of school, I guess it’s not too late to share this round-up of end of year activities for math class. The last few weeks of school are filled with awards assemblies, fun days, …
This post contains resources mentioned in the Engaging Students with Hands-On Data Collection Activities presented at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2022 Summer Conference. Slides and additional information will be added to this post following the presentation. Dotplot Magnets Design your Own Dot Plot Magnets Dot Plot of the Day Activity Tenzi Tenzi …
This post contains links to resources mentioned in the Embracing Joy in Math Class Keynote Presentation given at the Oklahoma Council for Teachers of Mathematics 2022 Summer Conference. Following the presentation, copies of the slides and additional information about the presentation will be added. Resources Mentioned in Presentation Free Printable Lesson Plan Book Classroom Decorations …