Monthly Archives: August 2016

Day 5, Tuesday August 30

Posted on August 31, 2016 by

Apparently I missed yesterday! Kids wrote on the board their Three 3’s equations, and we discussed any that needed parenthesis. We also did the Designing Groupwork activity Rainbow Logic that Sarah Carter blogged about here. It was a minimum day (39 … Continue reading →

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Day 6: Wednesday, Aug. 31

Posted on August 31, 2016 by

Today was the last student comment on the Name Tents. I’ll pass them back tomorrow, then collect them again. I want to do this again, maybe in November – but one class (subject) per week! We had an awesome discussion … Continue reading →

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Day 4, Monday August 29

Posted on August 29, 2016 by

Today was Day 3 of Week of Inspirational Math for all of the classes. The activity today was paper folding – fractional units. I gave each of the kids a 4″ x 4″ square of paper, and they had to … Continue reading →

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Week 1 2016-2017

Posted on August 26, 2016 by

First Day of School! Wed., August 24 I’m going to try and blog at least once a week this year (apprehensive  grimace facial expression on my part!). This year I’m teaching 2 classes of Algebra CP, 1 Math 7CCSS class … Continue reading →

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