Today, I want to share a poster I recently made for my physical science class. We’ve been writing chemical reactions, and my students need a bit of a reminder about which elements exist diatomically. When I took chemistry in high school, my teacher taught us the BrINClHOF mnemonic device. I guess it’s catchy because it’s …
Classroom Decor
I gave my students a chart for prefixes for naming covalent compounds in their notebook, but I decided that we’re going to be using these prefixes enough that it warrants a poster for quick reference. Here’s what I came up with for my prefixes poster. I designed this poster to print on 11 x 17 …
On my podium, I hung a poster which reads “Ms. Hagan. Teacher of Awesome. (And by “Awesome” I mean “Math.”) The saying for this poster was inspired by a poster I saw shared on Pinterest. You’ll obviously need to update the file to reflect your own name! Another year, I printed the posters on several …
I created this calculator bulletin board in my math classroom to serve as a handy reference to both myself and my students. I used bulletin board letters which I bought from Dollar Tree to spell out Scientific and Graphing above the two different calculator posters I got from Texas Instruments. I added specific reminders about …
Recently, I posted pictures of my 2016-2017 classroom. (In my opinion my 2016-2017 classroom is my best on yet, so I’d definitely recommend checking out that post!) Posting these pictures made me realize that I never actually shared any pictures of my classroom last year! I took the pictures, but they never made it into …
I decided to take this bulletin board that hangs over my desk and turn it into a math reference bulletin board. You can find all of these posters to download on my posters page!
I have a laminated poster that says “Today is.” Each day, I try and remember to write the date as a math problem. This is a trick I picked up from my cooperating teacher while I was student teaching. Students HATE it because it makes them do a bit of extra math to figure out …
I want to share a 2 Nice Things Poster I created for my classroom. Two nice things is an idea I stole a long time ago from Elissa Miller. When a students says something mean toward another student/themselves/anything, they have to say two nice things about that same thing. So simple yet so powerful. …
I created this interactive Witzzle Bulletin Board to make it easy to play Witzzle throughout the year with my students. I love using the game of Witzzle as a beginning of the year activity or as a brain break or early-finisher activity throughout the school year. Not sure how to play Witzzle? I’ve got a …
You are invited to check out my 2016-2017 high school math classroom decorations! Welcome to my classroom! This is my happy place. It’s as bright, cheerful, and colorful as I can make it because I spend more time in this room every day than about any place else in the world. If you’re …
Under my Today is Poster, I have my birthday poster. My This Week’s Birthdays Poster was inspired by Hannah‘s My Favorite at #TMC16. At the end of last year, I overheard a student tell another student that he had been the only person to wish them a happy birthday. Her parents had forgotten it was …
After making significant figure posters for my classroom, my mind started wandering to other topics that could also become posters. Last week, we discussed the difference between accuracy and precision. We took notes and classified targets according to their accuracy and precision. I decided to take the target idea and make it into a set …
Today I’m sharing some significant figures posters I created. Since I’m teaching physical science this year for the first time, I’m having to review a lot of stuff I haven’t thought about since I was in high school. One of those things is significant figures. As I’ve been reviewing the rules in preparation to teach …
Today I want to share a set of new SBG Posters I created. This year, I have decided to switch from my A/B/Not Yet SBG scale to a 1-4 SBG scale. When I tweeted about stopping A/B/Not Yet, I got several questions about why I was making this decision. I absolutely loved the A/B/Not Yet …
Check out these positive and negative infinity posters I created to add to my horizontal number line poster in my classroom. School starts TOMORROW. Well, kids come on Monday, but I have to be there TOMORROW. I’ll also be there today, but y’all all know how that is. Since I need to get to school …
I created this set of includes vs excludes posters to help students remember how we show that a number is included or excluded in mathematics. I actually came up with the idea for these posters the other night when I was having trouble falling asleep. My mind could only think about school stuff. Shortly before …
I spent most of this morning making new posters for my classroom and most of this afternoon writing quizzes (4 versions of each) for our first unit in trigonometry. Today I want to share a set of What Should Your Answer Look Like Posters. I think it’s finally hit me that school is RIGHT around …
Today I want to share my Adventures of Slope Dude Posters that I created for my high school math classroom. It’s no secret around here that I love Slope Dude. Haven’t seen the video? You HAVE to click on the link. Trust me. I know different people have different opinions of Slope Dude. When …
I want to share a free download of a set of place value posters I created for my math classroom. They were inspired by this place value pin that was uploaded by a pinterest user. I decided it needed to be recreated ASAP to go up in my classroom for the upcoming school year. …
Today I want to share some area and perimeter posters I created for my classroom. I spent another afternoon working in my classroom today, and I feel like I actually made a lot of progress. I still need to start working on actual math lesson plans at some point. My principal e-mailed out the schedule …
Download a free printable order of operations poster set for your math classroom. Each section of the poster easily prints on colorful letter-sized paper to create an eye-catching display. One of the first decorations that I hung up in my high school math classroom after waiting an agonizing 10 days for the new wax to …
Since I’m teaching trig this year, I wanted to create some special right triangles posters to jog my students’ memories. Special right triangles are a topic they study in geometry but have often forgotten by the time they end up in my trig class. I designed the title to print on 8.5″ x 11″ and …
One of my favorite strategies to use during group/team work is red/yellow/green cups. I have also heard these referred to as traffic light cups in the past. I bought a package of each color of cups at Party City a few years ago. I’m still using the same cups, so they’ve held up well. I …
A continual focus in my classroom is helping my students build a growth mindset. One quote I’ve seen time and time again when it comes to growth mindset is “Mistakes are expected, respected, inspected, and corrected.” I’ve seen this quote attributed to Jo Boaler and her “How to Learn Math” course. This summer, I decided …
I am very excited about these perfect squares and perfect cubes posters that I created to decorate my high school math classroom! These posters were inspired by the amazing Clarissa Grandi, a maths teacher in the UK. If you like making math pretty and colorful, you must check out Clarissa Grandi’s website! I highly recommend …