I created this set of free printable pythagorean triple posters to help decorate my new classroom. I’m teaching Algebra 1, Trig, and Math Concepts (a class for 9th graders not yet ready for Algebra 1) this year. As I was making a list of things my trig students need to review at the beginning …
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I created these parts of the coordinate plane magnets for my classroom, and I want to share the files with you so you can create your own set as well. I wanted to create a reminder for my students of the names of each axis of the coordinate plane as well as how the quadrants …
Transform your math classroom with a free printable vertical number line poster in PDF format. Ideal for middle and high school math classrooms. Download today!
SOH CAH TOA. The mnemonic device that sums up the majority of the population’s knowledge of right triangle trigonometry. Today I want to share a free download of a SOHCAHTOA Poster I made for my own classroom. Yesterday, I printed off a heap of posters and started laminating them. Earlier this summer, I had …
Today I’m sharing left and right posters with you. I feel like I need to apologize in advanced because this blog is getting ready to be taken over by posters. I’ve got a new classroom to decorate, and I’m taking full advantage of that fact. (There’s also the fact that my husband has a new …
I’m extremely proud of this math welcome poster banner I created! Inspiration So, I’m not at #TMC16, but I’ve been following along with the adventures on Twitter as best as I can. I’ve seen a ton of tweets about Sara VanDerWerf‘s math-y badges. If you haven’t seen her blog post about them, you definitely need …
I created these stellated icosahedrons from clear plastic straws and curling ribbon. They make the perfect math classroom decoration to hang from the ceiling of my room. I learned how to make these stellated icosahedrons from Janelle Graham. Her blog sadly no longer exists, but I was able to find an archived version of the …
Grouping symbols are a difficult concept for math students to understand, so I created a free printable grouping symbols reference chart and poster for students to reference while in my algebra classroom. What are grouping symbols? Before students enter my math class, their familiarity with grouping symbols often only extends to parentheses. Elementary teachers often …
I’m excited to share these new TEAMS Group Work Norm Posters with you today. I think I’ve finally gotten over my “Oh my goodness school is out and grad school is done and I don’t have to do anything productive” phase. Yesterday, I wrote out a new SBG skills list for Algebra 1 for next …
My Algebra 2 kids are working with rational expressions. I’m pretty sure it’s my least favorite topic to teach in the world. It’s tedious, and it’s a nightmare for my students who haven’t fully mastered factoring. My students have traditionally struggled with remembering that they can only cancel factors and not terms. I started fighting …
Yesterday, I mentioned some HOYVUX notes we took in Algebra 2 as a review. Here they are again, for reference. A month ago, Mary Williams posted a link on twitter to this video sneak peak of her classroom. I got really excited when it revealed HOYVUX posters. As soon as I saw them, I decided …
This year, I am having a terrible time getting my posters to stay on the wall. Every day, I play the “let’s see how many posters fell down overnight” game. #sofun This summer, I made a set of Convince Me posters. They started out hanging under my dry erase board. But, every day, I would …
I created a new set of horizontal and vertical letters to hang up in my high school math classroom. Last year, I hung up sticky vinyl letters to spell out horizontal and vertical on the wall of my math classroom I have several students each year who have a lot of trouble remembering which is …
I want to share a set of cardinal direction posters I created. I’ve had left and right signs up in my high school math classroom for multiple years now. If you’re not a teacher, you’re probably reading this and thinking I’m crazy. But, if you are a teacher, you know why they’re up there. Sooooo many …
During my second year of teaching, I put up this Star Students bulletin board: It was a HUGE hit! My students from the previous year came back by my room to complain about the fact that I hadn’t had that bulletin board the previous year. I laminated the stars so I could write on them …
This summer, I found this picture on pinterest that says We Learn Math. What’s Your Super Power? I downloaded it to my computer, but now I can’t find where I actually pinned it. This is unfortunate because I used it as inspiration for a poster, and now I can’t exactly give credit where credit is …
Today I want to share a Always Show All of Your Thinking poster I created for my classroom. This poster was inspired by a tweet from Jessica Iva that suggested that we ask students to show their thinking stead of the traditional “show your work.” I’ve always begged and pleaded with my students to show …
Guess what I’m posting today. Yup. Another poster. 😀 I won’t be allowed to start decorating my classroom until late next week, so I’ve been compensating by making new stuff to decorate it with. Back in January, Elissa posted her Dividing by Zero? posters that were inspired by this pin. I decided these had to …
Elissa posted her weekly warm-up schedule, and it inspired me to think about how I want to structure my warm-ups this year. 2014-2015 Weekly Bellwork Schedule Well, I’ve decided on my weekly bellwork schedule for the upcoming school year. This past year, I had 3 special weekly tasks – Good Things Mondays, Weird and …
I saw this GRIT poster on pinterest, and I decided I had to recreate it for my classroom this year. G – Give it your allR – Redo if necessaryI – Ignore giving upT – Take time to do it right Here’s my typed version of the GRIT Poster. I have formatted this GRIT Poster …
Today’s poster is another idea stolen from Annie Forest that I can’t wait to put up in my classroom! She posted about decorating her classroom for Pi Day, and I decided I needed to steal one of her ideas to decorate my classroom EVERY day. Want more ideas for Pi Day? Check out this round-up …
Today I want to share some math symbols posters I created If you get annoyed by blog posts about posters I’ve created for my classroom, you might want to avoid my blog for the next few days. Let’s just say I’ve gone a little poster crazy the past few days and created a heap of …
Today I’m sharing a Types of Errors Poster I created. This year I’m making lots of tiny changes to my classroom. Still doing notebooks. But, I’m letting students use their notebooks on their quizzes. And, our notebooks are going to have a heap more worked examples in them. Still doing SBG. But, I’m changing the …
The idea for this Keep Calm and Combine Like Terms poster is completely unoriginal. In other words, I completely stole it from Annie Forest at Show Your Thinking. When I saw her post a few months ago, I knew this had to find a place in my classroom decorations for the new school year. I …
After a few weeks of relaxing and traveling, preparation for the next school year is in full swing. I’m the crazy type of person who likes doing school stuff during the summer because I can do it at my own pace without a million deadlines looming in front of me. I can stop to read …