Do you struggle with student organization? When I taught high school students, students would throw away their papers as they left my room – IN FRONT OF ME. Has this happened to you? Today, I am sharing what student organization system has worked for me and how other teachers have students organize notes and other papers using Maneuvering the Middle ...
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FREE SNEAK PEEK Behind-the-Scenes Tour of All Access Learn more about an All Access membership in this training IN JUST 20 MINUTES YOU'LL LEARN: 1. WHAT YOU REALLY NEED FOR A SMOOTHER SCHOOL YEAR Ditch the daily scramble - see how All Access provides everything you need to teach math with confidence. We will walk you through the research behind the ...
Smartphones, Social Media, and Student Minds
Smartphones, social media, and student minds - let's talk about it! The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt was recommended to me in a Parenting in a Tech World Facebook group. I purchased the book and put it on my shelf vowing to read it when my 1st grader was a little older. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, said 1st grader asked me what TikTok was. “Where did you hear that ...
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How to Use Our Middle School Math Test Prep Unit
Middle school math test prep season is upon us! Maneuvering the Middle’s test prep unit literally saved me for the 4 years I used it, so I thought I would share what’s included with some ideas for using it in your classroom. Update: Maneuvering the Middle has updated their test prep units, so keep reading to learn what's new!Hopefully, these components will help streamline your test ...
Grouping Students in Math
Grouping students in math can be a very complex process. If you take all the factors that are necessary for a group to function…personality, math ability, and ability to work in a group together, then you may find that no perfect combination exists. Here are some reasons you may decide to group students: Regardless of your beliefs, let’s talk about the pros and cons of ...
Mean, Median, and Mode: Teaching Measures of Center
Mean, median, and mode - my favorite measures of center! Let’s discuss this 6th and 7th grade skill as well as tips for teaching and real-life applications. Vertical Alignment 6th Grade Standards - Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape. 6.SP.2 Summarize ...
4 Division Strategies for 5th Grade
I will never forget my first day learning long division in third grade – the multiple steps, the division, followed by multiplication…then subtraction?? What? Fortunately, while that is the only way I ever learned division, there are now numerous other options for division, so students can feel successful. And though I believe the standard division algorithm is a necessity for math, ...
Keeping Up with Absent Students
Absent students - it’s that time of year! Managing absent students’ make-up work, incoming parent emails, catching them up when they return - it is a lot! (In fact, as I write this post, my daughter is missing school due to Flu A and strep.) Here are some tips for preparing for all the inevitable, seasonal absences. Stay On Top of Planning This is my advice for just about ...