This radian arts and crafts activity is designed to help students conceptually understand what a radian is. As a bonus, it creates a beautiful, mathematical art display for your classroom. This is one of my most popular tweets of all time. People come to my blog searching for it frequently, but until today it has …
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Back in February, I learned how to use paper folding to create an ellipse. Since then, I’ve wanted to try my hand at paper folding a hyperbola as well. It’s taken a few months, but I finally did it! Previously, I have bogged about paper folding both parabolas and ellipses. I learned about folding a …
If you haven’t tried “Quarter the Cross” yet with your students, what are you waiting for??? Not sure what “Quarter the Cross” is? You must stop immediately and read David Butler’s blog post about it! David has created a hundred solutions to this puzzle and made them into a beautiful graphic. Seriously, stop reading this …
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 …
This post about the unit circle paper plate activity is more a reminder for me the next time I teach trig than anything else. I’m teaching statistics again next year, by the way. And, I’m doing INBs with my students instead of using the textbook like my first go at teaching stats. I’m super …
This is my first year teaching trig, so I’m figuring out a lot of things as I go. There is no textbook. No pacing guide. Just my own experiences with taking trig in high school to guide me. This is both exciting. And scary. My memories of high school trigonometry involve lots of graphing on …
Last Tuesday was my first time to see my students since the previous Thursday thanks to the stomach bug, President’s Day, and the weekend. My Algebra 2 students were lamenting the fact that we were stuck inside at school on a beautiful day. It’s slowly started warming up in Oklahoma, and I couldn’t be more …
I’ve come across the idea of creating four types of slope name art from multiple places online, so I’m not exactly sure who to credit. Most recently, I learned of it from Pam J. Wilson and Mrs. Hester. It’s a variation on two activities that I did last year. So, my students have been working …
My Algebra 1 students recently completed a four types of slope pictures project. I’m excited to share the resulting slope artwork with you! This weekend and today were spent attending my first ever student council state convention. It was full of fun and games and amazing speakers, but I have to admit that I am …