math and stuff
This tweet basically summarizes what the last week has been like in our house:
Rest assured, all. Laminating continues because we found an unopened box of 100 pouches. @reilly1041 @theshauncarter @druinok @misscalcul8
— Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) July 31, 2016
The latest contribution for my walls are my classroom rules:
These basically are a slightly revised version of my rules from last year. You can download the posters here:
The fonts are Archistico and Coming Soon.
Update (Sept 2018): I added absolute value to these at the start of the last school year, but then apparently forgot all about it. Thanks to Amanda Stradel for calling this to my attention! Downloads are here.
New posters today for Algebra 2: Parent Functions!
I actually put these up a couple of weeks ago, but unfortunately didn’t have any photos of them. Then the floors of the school hallways got waxed and we weren’t allowed in. Until today!
Here’s them next to my Geometry Symbols Posters.
Original Downloads:
Get the updated files with absolute value here.
Font is Wellfleet, which is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
New standards means new plans. Except I’ve only just moved to Oklahoma, so I’m teaching Algebra 2 for the first time anyway. Good timing, I guess?
Anyway, I’ll be using SBG this year. Here you’ll find my complete list of units, containing the relevant OK math standards and ‘Critical Gaps’, along with my SBG skills lists.
Downloads:
I’ve already shared my Geometry units and SBG skills list for this year.
I’ll be teaching Geometry for the first time this year. Actually, everything is for the first time this year, as I’ve never taught discrete high school math subjects before*. It feels like I’m starting from scratch with my planning.
I’ve already posted my list of Geometry units and skills, mapped to the new math standards that Oklahoma is introducing. (I’ve done my Algebra 2 units too. I really need to get around to posting those.) Recently, I’ve been working on filling out a bit more of the details of what I’ll be teaching. I don’t plan on making too much use of the textbook, but I still want a list of the definitions, postulates and theorems written out. So, that meant making the list myself.
Downloads:
To be clear, this is not a document I’m giving to my students. This is for me, to make sure that my students are getting all the background knowledge they need as we progress through the course. There are still the day-to-day decisions about how I’m going to introduce these concepts in class, and how we will take INB notes each definition and theorem. I am very keen, though, to have students proven many, if not most, of these theorems themselves.
I’m considering this a first draft. I tried my hardest to make sure that everything that needs to be there is, but I’m not guaranteeing it. I would love feedback about anything, whether something could be worded a little more clearly, or there’s a giant hole of content that I’ve missed completely. I know I’ll be revising this document throughout the year.
* You could read this post and change every ‘UK’ or ‘Britain’ to ‘Australia’ and get a pretty good idea of what I’m used to.
You may have seen Sarah’s recent post about making posters of perfect square and cube numbers. She was talking to me about how she would go making the cubes. I thought about it for a bit, and thought there must be some way to do it in Geogebra. Turns out, there is!
Drag that slider, and you can change the number of cubes from 1³ to 20³.
This took a little bit of messing around to get right, mostly because I’ve never used the spreadsheet view in Geogebra before. Once I worked out that spreadsheet cells can contain graphical elements that get displayed, it was just a matter of plugging in the right formulas to generate all the lines.
Anyway, if you’d find this useful, you can download the file here: