Noelle and I recently took a trip to Ikea to scout for items for my classroom. We did it with a nine-week-old and almost-two-year-old. Are we crazy? The answer is yes! Crazy for classroom supplies! We did have a great time walking around, snapping pictures, and letting our creativity run wild. Without further delay, let’s take a look at the goodies we found. Sidenote: We know that ...
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Using Scholastic Magazines to Reach Reluctant Readers
Last summer, Scholastic Magazines reached out and graciously offered to partner with the blog for the school year. It was a unique opportunity to get an incredible resource in the hands of students, and we wanted to share about the experience. Teacher Takeaways from a Year with Scholastic By far, the biggest takeaway was my ability to reach reluctant readers. We have all had ...
Why You Should Attend a Math Conference
If you are reading this blog, then chances are that you love teaching; more specifically, you love teaching math! Teaching and teaching math are a multi-faceted skills that require us to constantly learn: new strategies, new techniques, new ways to use intervention, new models, and the list goes on and on. Math conferences are a place for teachers to sharpen their skills and learn from ...
Additional Resources
The following resources are a great fit for the curriculum and can be used in a variety of ways throughout the year. ...
Scope and Sequence
These planning documents will provide a suggested scope and sequence, as well as templates to customize your own. Keep in mind that class time, frequency of meetings, class size, testing, and other activities will impact your pacing calendar. Table of Contents This document displays each standard and the corresponding unit. Activity CalendarS These calendars display a scope and ...
Personal Financial Literacy
Standards Included: 8.12A, 8.12B, 8.12C, 8.12D, 8.12E, 8.12F and 8.12G This financial literacy unit will help students master the skills of calculating and comparing simple and compound interest, calculating loan repayments, comparing different methods of payment, determining if decisions are financially responsible and estimating the cost of college. Unit ...
Scatter Plots and Data
Standards Included: 8.5C, 8.5D, 8.11A, 8.11B and 8.11C This scatter plots and data unit will help students master the skills of constructing and interpreting scatter plots, making predictions using the trend lines of scatter plots, finding and interpreting mean absolute deviation and generating random samples. Unit Overview Outlines the big ideas covered in the unit as ...
Volume
Standards Included: 8.6A and 8.7A This volume unit will help students understand and apply volume formulas in order to solve problems involving the volume of cylinders, cones and spheres. Unit Overview Outlines the big ideas covered in the unit as well as essential questions to pose with your students, a vertical alignment chart, key vocabulary definitions, common student ...
Surface Area
Standards Included: 8.7B This surface area unit will help students connect their previous knowledge of surface area with the formulas for lateral and total surface area of prisms and cylinders. Students will use the formulas to find the surface area of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms and cylinders in real-world and mathematical situations. Unit Overview Outlines ...
Transformations
Standards Included: 8.3A, 8.3B, 8.3C, 8.10A, 8.10B, 8.10C and 8.10D This transformations unit will help students generalize the properties of transformations as well as algebraically represent transformations on the coordinate plane including translations, reflections, rotations about the origin and dilations. Students will also be able to identify scale factor and explain its ...