I am thrilled. I am hopeful that in the next 4 years I see the real movement that I voted for to come about 4 years ago. Let's move forward powerfully and courageously.
I have tried many ways from discovery, to
begging straight up: "these are the rules" to help my Algebra students work through properties of exponents. I had some success with a process I called, "1 by 1." We did 12 problems in shadowed boxes:
Given an Exit ticket of 5 problems where the average went from 3 to 7 out of 10, I'd say it was successful! Yay!
Hot tip of the day: in your windows "accessories" you will find the "snipping tool." It is so easy, even I can use it:
You can capture what is on your screen, like a screen shot, and save it as a Jpeg to use in...your blog posts!
I made this Tarisa Puzzle:
It takes a 18 x 24 piece of construction paper to complete: Here is the first part:
The next thing will be for me to write
Tarsia Puzzle and this will be live for you to download. Anyone? Anyone?
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
I like this! Thanks so much for sharing. I added this to my Livebinder to share with others as well.
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