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The Math Hatter: March 2014
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Sunday, March 30, 2014. Flipped Classroom (the first 10 minutes of class). I am really experimenting with the first 10 minutes of class lately. It is my 10 minutes of whole group time. On Mondays, we play "the White Board Game" for state test review and to keep something consistent. Any other day is up for grabs. One of my favorite activities to open class with is My Favorite No. If you have never seen the video on Teaching Channel, you should watch it. Pretty cool stuff. ( Here. Last week with the 7th g...
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The Math Hatter: We're Going on a Square Hunt: Simplifying Radicals
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Friday, February 6, 2015. We're Going on a Square Hunt: Simplifying Radicals. The class spent a week exploring the Pythagorean Theorem. After creating a need with the students to handle square roots, on Friay we went over how to simplify them. This topic has always been a bit dry and never quite landed with the students. I have always talked about trying to find perfect squares and use those to break down the number. So as the class entered today I played this video. We're going on a square hunt. My mini...
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High School Math Adventures with Mrs. B: Tip & Trick Tuesday: Unit Circle Hand Trick
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High School Math Adventures with Mrs. B. Resources and stories from a {soon to be} High School Math Teacher. About Ms. Smith. Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Tip and Trick Tuesday: Unit Circle Hand Trick. Note: This trick was designed only to help remember the first quadrant of the unit circle but I will show you my own little trick to applying it to all of the unit circle. Each one of your five fingers represents a special points on the Unit Circle:. Thumb - 0° or 0π (2π). Index Finger - 30° or π/6. Since we k...
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The Math Hatter: Standards-Based Grading, Levels, & Percentages
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Friday, February 28, 2014. Standards-Based Grading, Levels, and Percentages. Grading is always a tricky subject to discuss. I have developed my grading system over the last 4 years shifting from points based, to standards based. I really like how I grade and feel that it reflects exactly what a grade should, student learning. There are no "assignments, quizzes, daily points, or tests", listed. I. Where I get in trouble from Ken O'Connor is that each learning target in the gradebook has a percentage to sh...
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The Math Hatter: Class Debates in Math Continued...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014. Class Debates in Math Continued. So yesterday we had a debate about math totally go off the rails. Students kept arguing without really basing anything on logic or facts or even good common sense. It sometimes sounded like a 24 hour news network where people yell "I' m right because I feel I am right! And then someone else yells "No, I'm Right, because I'M LOUDER! Only 1 section had this, but still I couldn't stop thinking about how badly this went. Is awesome of course.
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The Math Hatter: Something funny and kind of scary happened....
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. Something funny and kind of scary happened. So after no sub signed up for my gig, I told the secretary that we only needed someone for periods 3-9 because I would be there for the first two periods because of math league. She said okay, I ran my math league meet, created some activities and headed home. So when I get to school on Tuesday, and interesting thing happened. I immediately had 3 students run up to me and say "We had no teacher Mr. Sieling! Math Tales from the Spring.
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Middle School Math Madness!: 2013 RedditGifts Teacher Exchange!
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Middle School Math Madness! A blog about my experiences using foldables and interactive notebooks with my middle school math students. Monday, August 19, 2013. 2013 RedditGifts Teacher Exchange! That RedditGifts would do their Teacher Exchange again this year. And they finally posted about it today! I posted about it. Last year, but after the signup deadline (sorry! It really is a wonderful program. Basically, you signup with RedditGifts. You then create a wishlist (I use amazon.com for mine). Beginning ...
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Middle School Math Madness!: First Day Activities
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Middle School Math Madness! A blog about my experiences using foldables and interactive notebooks with my middle school math students. Tuesday, September 4, 2012. My students come in tomorrow for their first day. I should be getting ready for bed.not writing a blog post! The large die on the bottom is an interactive one. Students will come up to the Smartboard, roll the die (by tapping it). And then share something depending on what they rolled. You can get the Notebook file in my stores: TpT. July 22, 2...
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Middle School Math Madness!: Reddit Gifts
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Middle School Math Madness! A blog about my experiences using foldables and interactive notebooks with my middle school math students. Friday, August 24, 2012. So, a few weeks ago, my husband sent me a link to join Reddit Gifts. They were hosting a teacher gift exchange. I didn't know much about it, but signed up anyway. It asked for basic information and for me to create a wish list. I made one using amazon.com. August 25, 2012 at 10:49 PM. What a fun story to share. September 1, 2012 at 3:37 PM. My fir...
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