Monday Must Reads: Volume 38

Some weeks, I can’t wait to compile my Monday Must Reads post. Other times, like today, I realize that Monday is getting close to being over and I haven’t even started sorting through my favorite tweets of the week. My school has four weeks and one day left of the semester, and I have to admit that I am ready for summer. It’s really hard to make my mind think about the lessons that I need to teach this week because all my brain wants to think about is the changes I want to make for next year!

That’s enough complaining. Let’s move on to this week’s must reads!

Checking Your Work Mnemonic

Ryan White shares an awesome set of bookmarks with a mnemonic device that walks students through checking their work.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/rwhite_teacher1/status/985957884751171584
 

Celebration Tree Bulletin Board

Fran Capone inspires with her “celebration tree.”

Image Source: https://twitter.com/algebrafun120/status/985932387769987073
 

Function Auction Tweaks

Taylor Grant shares some creative tweaks to my function auction activity in this blog post.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/teachbarefoot/status/985976138907480066
 

Marble Parabolas

Alice Aspinall demonstrates how to combine paint and marbles to make parabolas!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/aliceaspinall/status/985931839310352384
 

Angle Twister Game

Susanne F-Pegram gets students up and moving around while reviewing angles with a game of twister.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/wsmom1265/status/985910698164342787
 

Math Line Walk

Bethany Tyndall demonstrates how you can make the entire school your classroom by taking a math walk!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/TyndallBethany/status/916288989249855488
 

Jump Origami

Clarissa Grandi inspires, as always, with her beautiful origami!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/c0mplexnumber/status/985200680423120898
 

Tape and Balloon Tower

Tiffany Ann Mosier shares one of the most fun-looking team-building tasks I have seen. Build a tower with only tape and balloons!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Mosier_FHS/status/898551516935606272
 

Cut Out Fold Up Creation

Check out this masterpiece by Suzanne von Oy!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/von_Oy/status/984510979714138112
 

Area and Circumference of Circles Matching Activity

Looking for an awesome task to review area/circumference of a circle? Mr Knowles has got you covered! Download it here from TES for free!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/SK18Maths/status/985173524099862528
 

Which Number is the Biggest?

Todd Malarczuk poses an interesting estimation problem.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ToddMalarczuk/status/865225026836017152
 

Summing Dice

Allison E Lawrence shares an awesome idea involving dice in a plastic case. I’ve never seen dice used like this before!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrsLMathGeek/status/861948914534150144
 

Matching a Sequence

Amy McNabb shares a brilliant use for $5 in your classroom.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/amcnabb3/status/984883101087289345
 

Outdoor Systems of Equations

Blaire Conner gets students outside to practice systems of equations.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/blaireconner/status/984805075318173697
 

Cryptology Activity

Chris Pierce brilliantly combines polar graphs and cryptology.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/PierceLikesMath/status/984827296229023746
 

Laser Cut Tessellations

Check out these awesome laser-cut tessellations by Kathy Henderson‘s students!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/kathyhenderson/status/984535512466665472
 

Real Number System Projects

Stacey Beacher not only has her students create their own representations of the real number system, but she also has students give other students feedback on their projects.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/SBeacher_BMS/status/914100714716172288
 

Height vs Jump Height Data Collection

Stacey also shares an awesome hands-on activity for collecting data to create a scatter plot that involves jumping!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/SBeacher_BMS/status/940272581768249344
 

Mini Golf Trig Activity

Kate Baker shares an awesome mini-golf lesson that gives students plenty of trig practice.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ms_baker_dchs/status/961002251467845634
 

Congruent Triangle Challenge

Kimberly Lentz builds a great geometry lesson that centers around a brown lunch bag.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Miss_Lentz/status/936002824470716416
 

Spring Function Flower Garden

Kristen Fouss brings spring into her classroom with a function flower garden.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Fouss/status/984501880050110464
 

Triangle Art

Samantha Cruz shares an inspiring triangle-based math project.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/cruzteach/status/942888978235129857
 

Quadratic Door Decoration

Margaret Brown shows us how math teachers should decorate their doors.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/margaret001100/status/984449735460294656
 

Wooden Trays for WODB

Janice Novakowski encourages teachers to create their own WODB problems by providing them with wooden trays to set-up their problems.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/jnovakowski38/status/984188919876018177
 

Sine vs Cosine Venn Diagram

I’m super impressed with this Venn diagram for sine vs cosine functions created by Ms. Fye‘s class.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/krfye/status/984132722514948097
 

3D Trig Problem Projects

Kristan Morales shares a brilliant project idea: have students create a 3D representation of a trig problem!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/KristanMorales1/status/982036196485316608
 

Composite Figures on the Wall

Carly Bowden takes advantage of a tiled wall to set up composite figures for students to find the area of. This is pure brilliance!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrsCBowden/status/841423826017742848
 

Reaction Time Data Collection

Lara Staker shares a great data collection activity involving reaction time.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/larree12/status/967240255433854977
 

Graphing Trig Functions with Straws

Elissa Miller shares a new-to-me use of straws: graphing trig functions. This is so much better than using spaghetti!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/misscalcul8
 

Average Rate of Change War

Tori Cox created an awesome deck of war cards for comparing average rate of change.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ToriTeachesMath/status/983798255107690496
 

Probability with Guess My Rule Cards

Liz Mastalio shares an awesome lesson using my Guess My Rule cards.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MissMastalio/status/983765751235534851
 

Giant Unit Circle

How have I been teaching trig for so long without ever thinking of creating a giant unit circle in my classroom?!? Thanks to Ms. Holley for the inspiration!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MsHolley_/status/968189782001115141
 

Marshmallow Catching Contest

Abigail Fulton introduced statistics in the yummiest of ways – a marshmallow catching contest!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/afulton345/status/970825088747450368
 

Finding the Height of a Volcano

Jackie Selevan makes me wish I lived closer to a volcano so we could estimate it’s height using trig!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/jselevan/status/983403483406610433
 

Quarter the Cross Templates

Interested in doing Quarter the Cross with your students? Check out these awesome templates from Kim Spek.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/kvdspek/status/983150086216699904
 

Exponent Comic

I absolutely love this exponent-themed comic unearthed by Jo Morgan. She always finds the best stuff!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mathsjem/status/983352641114779648
 

100 Calorie Pack Mathematics

 Debbie Hurtado brings a real-world problem into the classroom.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/DebbieHurtado/status/983138423916511232
 

Orange Plastic Golf Balls?

Sara Van Der Werf‘s most recent blog post about why she hangs orange plastic golf balls from her ceiling is a must-read.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/saravdwerf/status/983115064101261312
 

Until next week, keep sharing your awesome ideas!

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