Teaching math can be hard! Especially when you have students who are more comfortable with concepts than you are! Here's a fun way to introduce integers to your students with some real life examples. Integers are really everywhere and it's much easier to convince your students to learn something when they know it will actually … Continue reading Lesson Plan: Intro to Integers
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Lesson Plan: Intro to Triangles
Geometry is my favourite math unit - it relates to the real world, there are all kinds of manipulatives and students tend to enjoy it as well. This is how I like to introduce/review triangles with my grade 8 math students (this could suit any grade, the expectations would just differ): Lesson One: Grade 8: … Continue reading Lesson Plan: Intro to Triangles
Lesson Plan: Amusement Park Area and Perimeter
This was a super fun little project that I used as my evaluation for area and perimeter when I was teaching a 6/7 split. I found that even in grade 7 some of my students were having trouble remembering the difference between area and perimeter so making them do both really helped solidify. The 7's … Continue reading Lesson Plan: Amusement Park Area and Perimeter
5 Tips to Mark Less and Live More
Marking seems to be the necessary evil of teaching. I am finding that to be particularly true when teaching Grade 8 math. Every question we work on in class gets a chorus of "are we handing this in?" if the response isn't a yes, half of my class doesn't even bother to do it. I … Continue reading 5 Tips to Mark Less and Live More
Review: Teaching Student Centered Math
If you teach math to students from k- 8 this is the only book you need. It is SO GOOD. I was lucky enough to be given a full set of these books by a math specialist I was working with in London, but it was another year before I realized just what a gem … Continue reading Review: Teaching Student Centered Math