Want access to my FREE resource library? Click here to join! One of my favorite projects that we do all year is this Area of a Sector Real World Activity. I love it because it’s steeped in real world application, works great as a group activity (but can be done individually as well!), and requires …
Want access to my FREE resource library? Click here to join! Every year in my classroom I found a need to provide differentiated practice in my math class. It varied from year to year, but I had students at varying levels of comprehension and confidence no matter what, and those kids needed different types of …
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Want access to my FREE resource library? Click here to join! So often teaching graphing transformations of functions boils down to simply recalling facts without understanding the concepts . Maybe we started out trying to explain the conceptual understanding behind the rules, but as the test looms closer and we’re desperate for students to understand …
If you’re like me, by the time I teach students to graph rational functions in Algebra 2 I felt like a broken record. And on and on it went, the same story for every function we studied. So, I decided that my students should do a discovery lesson to introduce the topic of graphing rational …
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Each August I go back to my teaching job with equal parts excitement, anxiety, and motivation. It’s a fresh start, a chance to try something new with a new set of learners, which is rare in other job fields. A new school year calls for doing a few important tasks, but shouldn’t be totally overwhelming. …
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This summer I’ve been tearing through books like crazy! Most of the books I read this summer are not related to education, but this one made the cut. I read Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning because the librarians at my school recommended it. It’s quick to read and has a positive tone. …
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When it came to teaching radical functions this year I was at a loss. I couldn’t seem to connect with the material and the notes packet that my colleagues used last year was tragically boring. So, I scoured the internet looking for real-world situations that used radicals. The first things I came across the equation …
One strategy that I often use is to have students gather data and then find a regression equation. I’ve done this with both linear and radical functions. Next up: exponential functions in this exponential decay activity. In order for students to really understand what the a-value and b-value represent in the equation y=ab^x, I give …
