Looking for a geometry proofs activity to give your students some extra practice with this tricky topic? Check out this idea I learned about recently at a math teaching conference. I learned about this geometry activity while attending a session titled “Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet” by Judy Schwarz of Moore Public Schools …
Geometry Activities
I really like the looks of this geometry concentration matching activity that I learned about at a math teaching conference recently. I learned about this geometry activity while attending a session titled “Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet” by Judy Schwarz of Moore Public Schools at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Summer …
Looking for some self-checking activities for geometry class? Check out these ideas I learned about at a recent conference I attended. I learned about these geometry activities while attending a session titled “Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet” by Judy Schwarz of Moore Public Schools at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Summer …
I was excited to learn about these geometry sorting activities while attending a session titled “Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet” by Judy Schwarz of Moore Public Schools at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Summer Conference.
Looking for a fun polygon art project for your geometry class to complete? Look no further than this Picasso Polygon Portrait project. I learned about this geometry project while attending a session titled “Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet” by Judy Schwarz of Moore Public Schools at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics …
Looking for a fun way to have your geometry students practice writing conditional statements? Check out this If Then Statements Geometry Poster Project. I learned about this geometry project while attending a session titled “Taking the Practice Out of the Worksheet” by Judy Schwarz of Moore Public Schools at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of …
Last week, Shaun and I were able to attend the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Summer Workshop at OSU-Tulsa. We attended some great sessions, and I’ve decided that the best way to not forget what I learned is to blog about it! Over the course of the next few weeks (months?) I want to …
Guys, I currently have more drafts sitting in blogger than there are days in the school year. This. Is. Not. Cool. Can I just take a year off from teaching so I can catch up on blogging? Just kidding. Then, there’d be no things teenagers say, and life would be sad. A few months back, …
What are Shikaku Puzzles? Shikaku Puzzles are a geometric-based logic puzzle from Japan. I was first introduced to them from a tweet from Bowen Kerins. The goal of a shikaku puzzle is to subdivide the grid into rectangles (and squares) so that the number in each rectangle refers to the area of that rectangle. Only …
I’m excited to share my student’s creative wheel of theodorus projects which I turned into a Wheel of Theodorus Bulletin Board to decorate my high school math classroom. Every year, I have this plan to change my bulletin boards out throughout the school year. This year that happened only once. It also happened way back …
I learned about the song Gettin’ Triggy Wit It by WSHS on YouTube from Meg Craig. It was the perfect addition to our unit on right triangle trigonometry. If you haven’t seen this video, stop everything and watch it now. My students enjoyed the video the first time we watched it, but they had a …
I created this SOH CAH TOA foldable for my trigonometry students to glue in their interactive notebooks. Our geometry standards include basic right triangle trig, but I’ve found that my students’ experience with this topic is greatly lacking. They remember learning SOH CAH TOA, but they never really did know what they were doing. It’s …
These are the pythagorean theorem notes I used with my trigonometry students in our beginning of year geometry review. We glued these notes in our trigonometry interactive notebooks. The Pythagorean Theorem booklet was stole from the blog of Jessie Hester. She has a ton of resources for teaching the Pythagorean Theorem! If I was teaching …
I created this complementary and supplementary angles notes page for my trigonometry students as part of our beginning of year review before jumping into the actual trig course content. We wrote the following notes in our trigonometry interactive notebooks. Full Disclosure: My students hated this notebook page. You may think hate is a strong word. …
Before jumping into trigonometry, I used this parallel lines cut by a transversal foldable to review some crucial angle facts with my students. I borrowed the amazing Kathryn’s Angles Formed by Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal Foldable. Here’s the inside: Kathryn took many more detailed pictures of the inside flaps and posted them on …
I created this special right triangles practice book for my trigonometry students to glue in their interactive notebooks as part of our beginning of the year geometry review. This was our last topic to review before delving into actual trigonometry. I don’t know exactly what it is about special right triangles, but I LOVE them. …
I got to experience this hands-on archaelogy geometry activity during the 5 glorious days I spent last week at NSU-BA as part of the Oklahoma Geometry and Algebra Project (OGAP). So much fun! So much learning! On the first day of the workshop, I walked in the room, and my eyes were immediately drawn to …
I worked through this shadows task that involves similar triangles at a 2013 Common Core Workshop I attended (OGAP). I am blogging about the activities we did last summer so that they are easier for me to find when I go to plan lessons. I hope these ideas will inspire you as well. I found …
I want to share a hands-on circumference activity I created while I was still a student teacher. This year, I am the algebra teacher in my school. I teach Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and College Algebra. The only math class I don’t teach is geometry. Our other teacher teaches all of the geometry classes and …