Summer Break T-Shirts for Teachers
You’ve worked hard all school year, and now you get to enjoy your summer. Celebrate your summer vacation with a fun teacher t-shirt. Great as a gift for a teacher […]
Math Teacher Blog
Avoid this Teacher Trap: Arguing with Students
I sat outside a teacher’s door listening to the chaos that ensued. Class had just begun and the teacher had a Do Now on the board. Multiple students were standing […]
St. Patrick’s Day Activities for your Math Class
Saint Patrick’s Day is a fun, creative day for teachers and students. But I always felt like I wasn’t doing a great job in this department, because I taught math. […]
Math Class’s 3 Minute Mile: Helping our Students Shift their Mindset
The impossible happened on May 6, 1954 when 6 men lined up at Iffley Road Track in Oxford to the delight of 3,000 fans who were about to witness history […]
How to Deal with a Student who Won’t Answer the Question Correctly
Today in class we were reviewing circles. After watching a video on the reading of Sir Cumference and the Knights of the Round Table, defining the terms, and defining Pi, […]
PreMade Learning Stations for PreAlgebra, 8th grade Math
Learning Stations are a great way to differentiate your instruction so that you can remediate your struggling students while still pushing your stronger ones. You can target every student in […]
How to Teach Exponent Rules
Product of a Power, Quotient of a Power, and Power of a Power Rules Once your students have mastered the basics of exponents, moving on to Exponent Rules can be […]
How to Teach Negative and Zero Exponents through Discovery and Investigation
To help students discover the rules for positive and negative exponents, I lead the class on this one learning activity. It generally takes about ten minutes, and by the end, […]
Your Math Homework isn’t Working
Why Are you Assigning Homework? Most teachers say that it is for independent practice. To help their students master the skills and concepts taught in math class. To provide students […]
Helping Students Master Powers and Exponents
Powers and Exponents are a foundational skills that will continue to show themselves again and again in more advanced math, so making sure that your students master it will help […]