Monday Must Reads: Volume 39

Happy Monday! The school year is winding down (at least at my school), and I am definitely excited about the upcoming summer. One of my favorite things to do during the summer is dream about what my classroom will be like the next year. It is my hope that you will find an idea to dream about doing either this year or next in this week’s collection of Monday Must Reads!

Multiplying Monomials Puzzle

Jocelle Skov shares an awesome multiplying monomials pyramid puzzle.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/mrs_skov/status/988468933903577088

Teaching Transformations with Dice and Spinners

If you’re teaching transformations, be sure to check out Lisa Richardson‘s awesome activity involving both dice and spinners! This looks so fun! Be sure to check out her blog post for more details.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/CBHSRichMath/status/988437495972016129

Order of Operations Calendar Project

Looking for some creative practice for order of operations? Check out the calendars that Beth Self has her students create!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/TheBubblyBeth/status/783043461653995520

A Year of Algebra 1 Desmos Projects

Nickolas Corley inspires with an entire year’s worth of Desmos projects in Algebra 1. These are so lovely!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrCorleyMath/status/987719965867470848

Skew Dice

Texas Math Teacher recommends a fun lesson involving skew dice. I didn’t even know these were a thing, so I’m super excited by the idea!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/wendytiedt/status/987398464073060352

Desmos vs Texas Instruments

Julia Anker shares an awesome test question that pits Desmos against TI.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/AnkerMath/status/987501599202279424

DIY 3D Coordinate Plane

Jonathan Lind makes the 3D distance formula come alive with a 3D coordinate plane made of straws.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/lindjonath/status/987265230739836928

Origami Frog Data Collection

Angela Manzo inspires with a fun, hands-on data collection activity involving origami frogs.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MsManzoLV/status/987102291097473026

Function and Situations Card Sort

Tori Cox shares an awesomely beautiful card sort.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/ToriTeachesMath/status/987056566322061312

Early Finisher Station

Solenne Abaziou created an awesome station in her classroom for early finishers. Each week, she puts up a new math game and a new tech activity for students to complete. How awesome is this?!?

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Abaziou/status/986988548732616705

Connecting Representations

I absolutely love this connecting representations task shared by Kaitlin. I feel like this would really et students thinking about what the different parts of an equation mean.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Kaitruggiero/status/986682174572302336

Exploring Angles with Paper Plates

Mark Kaercher shares another use for that giant stack of paper plates that has been sitting in my cabinet ever since we made paper plate unit circles in trig a few years ago. You will also need pipe cleaners and a hole punch.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/shskaercher/status/986575312661241856

Graphing Names with Piecewise Functions

Hugo Sierra recommends introducing piecewise functions by having students graph their names.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/sierr101/status/957032732864868352 

Pizza Prompt

Robert Kaplinsky shares a photo of some pizza prices that would spark some awesome conversations in math class.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/robertkaplinsky/status/985241681019658240

Surface Area Auction

I absolutely love that Mr. Derstein created a Surface Area Auction to give his students some fun, purposeful practice.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MrDerstein/status/986344446181756929

Percent Composition with Candy

When I taught percent composition this year in chemistry, it was a little boring. If I ever teach it again, I will take a note from Michelle Vanhala and teach it using brown lunch bags full of candy!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/MsVanhala/status/986294305546436613

Candy Dilation Projects

Becci shares some photos of some awesome candy dilation projects.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/BecciEwers/status/915790726264475648

Pretzel Slope Fields

Attention Calculus Teachers: How can you not love Dorothy Rich‘s idea of pretzel slope fields?

Image Source: https://twitter.com/DorothyRich2/status/951138327100567553

Geometry Sculpture Project

Amber Longhi shares some photos of some awesome geometry projects.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/Amber_Longhi/status/986017362829893632

A Dollar and Four Quarters

Sara Van Der Werf’s recent post about a dollar and four quarters is a must-read.

Image Source: https://twitter.com/saravdwerf/status/986052378364403712

Student Transformations Artwork

Check out this awesome display of student work on transformations put together by Conchita Bebis!

Image Source: https://twitter.com/bebis_conchita/status/929104723164258307

Until next week, keep sharing your awesome ideas!

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