Life has been crazy busy lately as always, but I am so proud of myself today! I left school at 4 PM, stopped at the grocery store for a few items on my way home from school with my oldest, and then came home and made a delish dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, italian garlic flat beans, salad, and french bread. I also helped my middle with his homework. In other words I was able to do my most important job, and that's being a mom! I brought nothing home from school with me so I can take a mental break from all the Common Core research I do (well I will probably spend some time on
Pinterest tonight).
I had PT conferences last Thursday and they went really really well. I do love my students this year. I have one class that makes me smile every single day (even on the crazy days), because so many of them come in every single day excited and happy and looking forward to my math class and they say hi to me and ask how my day is going. It's crazy, but true and I just love them for that. As busy, and challenging at times, as it's been it has been a good year.
I found an amazing resource for some middle school math foldables
here. We used two of the foldables in class a few weeks ago and I have to say the kids loved them and they were a great study resource for the quiz we had covering ratios and rates as well as stem-and-leaf plots (with measures of central tendency).
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| Measures of Central Tendency Foldable |
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| The back of the foldable with a Stem-and-Leaf Plot added to match what we were doing |
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| Inside, following my color scheme LOL! |
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| Ratio/Rate/Proportion Foldable |
I have been really stressing lately about a major shift our instructional delivery method for math at the middle school next year. This afternoon I met with my principal and the director of instruction, two ladies that I admire and greatly respect, and I have to say I am feeling much better about everything. I am really excited for the innovative approach we are going to be taking next year. It will be tons of work, but so exciting and I feel much calmer about the process after spending some time this afternoon chatting with both ladies.
I have been finding some amazing CCSS resources for middle school math (with links to take you to other levels), so be sure to check out my Pinterest boards via the link above. Hope you are having a great Monday. It feels good to be wearing my mommy hat for the evening!
Great foldables!!!
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Hi Sherrie:
ReplyDeleteThis is EXACTLY what I need this week.
I printed the whole thing to think it through.
Terrific foldables, too!
THANKS SO MUCH!
Kim
Finding JOY in 6th Grade
Love your math ideas! I am just starting my blog with some great math ideas as well Follow!
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ReplyDeleteHere is an awesome game to teach probability to students in middle grades! Deal or No Deal Probability. I love your statistics foldable.
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Beautiful and neat foldable. Do you have the document available for others to download? I would love to use it. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy students had trouble remembering the difference between the three M's so we decided to ALWAYS put the numbers in order from smallest to largest and then we did a little chant:
ReplyDelete"The MEAN is very MEAN because it makes you do two steps (add and divide...said in a mad voice). The MEEEEDIAN is the number in the MEEEEDDLE (middle in a very squeaky voice). The MOOOODE is the number we see the MOOOOST (in a very deep, sarcastic voice)."
Thank you for sharing! I was just wondering where we could go to download the measures of central tendency foldable? When I click on the link, it goes to a Pinterest board, and the Pinterest board links back to this post. I still haven't found a way to download this wonderful resource. Thanks!
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Hi Kari,
DeleteThe link to the foldables is in my post in the paragraph above the first photo I posted.
I used the measurement of central tendency foldable in my class the week before Christmas. We used birthdays to fill in the missing data from the pages where the students have to find the different central tendencies. I think the students really enjoyed themselves. They pasted their finished foldables into their new(ish) interactive math notebooks. I have observed that they refer to the foldable now when we are working on problems involving measurements of central tendency. ( I used Laura Candler's Valentine Math freebie last week). I will have to try the one on on ratio/rate/proportion in the near future!
ReplyDeleteGlad you were able to use it. The site I linked in my post has lots of great foldables. Thanks for the nice comment!
DeleteThank you so much, I can use these with my collaborative students.
ReplyDeleteI really love your ratio foldable. Where would I be able to find it?
ReplyDeletethank you for your sharing!!! really praise worthy works and research of the fold able notebooks that help the students study easily.
ReplyDeleteWonderful foldables, thanks for sharing...
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your foldable. I think my students will enjoy using this to learn the measures of central tendency.
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