StudyJams. Foldables/Study Guides. Lose a foldable?
All foldables & study guides that we have made in class are available below. If you need help filling in the blanks, please see the completed foldable or study guide in the classroom. Remember, many of these files were copied back-to-back, so a two-page file is the front and back of the foldable. 6th Grade Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Mixed Numbers (PDF 11 KB)Four-door foldable for operations with fractions. 6th Grade Multiplying and Dividing Fractions and Mixed Numbers (PDF 12 KB)Four-door foldable for operations with fractions. 6th Grade Decimals Foldable (PDF 43 KB)Four-door foldable for decimal operations 6th Grade Ratio, Rates, and Proportions (PDF 46 KB)This foldable gives definitions and examples of ratios, rates, and proportions. 6th Grade Proportions (PDF 32 KB)This foldable shows the steps needed to solve a proportion. 6th Grade Percents (PDF 70 KB)This tabbed-book is a great overview of percents.
Mrs. Teaching the Metric System. Balloon Pop: A Review Game. I learned about this game at a Pippin's math conference which I blogged about here.
It's sad that that was almost a year ago and I'm just now using it. You can use a regular review worksheet or my personal favorite, a Powerpoint of review problems. Preparation: Students are in teams. Top Five Pieces of Advice for ISN Beginners. Beginning anything new for the first time can always get overwhelming.
It seems like there are a lot of people starting Interactive Student Notebooks for the first time this year and I imagine it must be especially intimidating seeing all the amazing ideas people are sharing. As with anything new, things are more manageable when you focus your energy on one thing at a time. These are some bits of advice I have for anyone that has not used ISNs before, in an effort to help you decide where to focus your energy at the beginning and where not to. These are based on the way that I use my ISN and what I think is important. Be sure that you understand WHY you are using an ISN and be sure that you are doing it for the right reasons. Note: History Alive made the ISN as well known as it is today. The Black Death: Percents, Ratios, and Rates. As much as I love teaching math, sometimes wish I taught social studies.
History is so much fun! In our 6th grade curriculum the students do a interdisciplinary project on the Middle Ages. They study the Middle Ages in Social Studies, read period books and fairy tales in Language Arts, create Middle Age art, and even learn popular dances from the Middle Ages in dance class. With all of the Middle Age fun coursing through the 6th grade, I could not be left out in math class! The Land Of Matheval I created “The Land of Matheval” for our Medieval Mathematics Unit. Day 1: Percent of the Population When people think of the Middle Ages, they often think of Kings, Queens, and knights. Day 2: Draw Your Role I had the students draw their role from a hat to decide if they would be nobility, clergy, or common.
Day 3: Estimate Your Chance of Survival After they picked their roles I told them that we would be studying the Black Death. Day 4: Rate of Death - The Black Death Arrives! Foldable Talk Summary – Recording, Links, and Powerpoint Included. Wow!
We had 65 people attend the second Global Math Department Foldable talk tonight. We had some technical difficulties, mostly with audio. Middle School Math Madness! Whew!
I completely forgot how overwhelming it is to go back to your room in August and set it back up. They empty our rooms during the summer to wax the floors and then just load everything back in. I went back for the first time yesterday, and this is what greeted me: As if that wasn't enough, 30 minutes after I got there, this was rolled in: (Most of the boxes are because 3 out of my 4 classes are getting new textbooks and workbooks this year.
Needless to say, I didn't even know where to begin. I counted out my math notebook guidelines, rubrics, grade sheets, vocabulary lists, grading policies, and first day handouts for my 4 classes and placed them in their bins. Middleweb. Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Home Page. ForTeachers. For The Love of Teaching Math - A blog on the facts and figures of math education. Math-n-spire. Fast Times of a Middle School Math Teacher. In the fall I thought long about a group work "contest" to try to motivate my students to work together more effectively. The contest idea came from a Language Arts teacher who had seen a teacher at a school in Chicago use a contest strategy in his classroom.
She told me that he would have the top group take a picture with an old basketball trophy and post the picture in the classroom. I was so excited about this idea that I wanted to get my hands on a trophy immediately. I knew I had some of my own trophies but seeing they were boxed up somewhere in a different state I needed to utilize other sources. I ran down to the school office to talk to the queen of Ebay AKA our secretary and she helped me get my hands on a vintage track trophy- FOR FREE!
When I got the trophy it just had the two gold runners.