Any great teacher or coach is constantly assessing performance and giving timely and direct feedback. Formative assessments are paramount in the math classroom. There are some assessments that are more formal than others, but you have to plan them in order to make sure they happen. Also, you shouldn’t do assessments just because you’re supposed to do them. As teachers, we use, and value, formative assessment because they inform our feedback to students and the way we’ll deliver instruction in the future.
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Math review game: Bingo
Playing games in a math classroom isn’t all about fun and, well, games. While games are undeniably more fun than worksheets, I’ve also seen my students get so much more math practice, and answer so many more math questions, through games. One game that’s always a hit, while being simple to set up and play, is Bingo. Bingo makes math review a snap to plan and it’s a lot of fun to play.
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Math intervention isn’t something that we necessarily talk a lot about in our schools. We want students to be better at math, but beyond that we often stick to a lot of traditional methods and pedagogy. I love math intervention and I’ve seen so many students have so much success and growth. There are many things you can do to make sure that you math intervention is well thought out, productive, and engaging. In this post I’ll share with you 7 tips to help maximize your math intervention time and how you can grab a free download for each of the tips.
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Overview of Knockout Games
Knockout is a whole class review game with a couple of twists. Here’s the gist of it: a student chooses a character or icon from the screen and a question appears. Then, all students answer questions that are projected on the board. If they get the answer right, they get the points. Three times per game there’s a bonus. The student who chose the character or icon gets to then choose a bonus. They don’t know if it will be good for them or bad for them. Students love the bonuses, and I love that in a 20-30 minute game we get some really good practice.
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Sub Plans for Middle School Math Teachers
We all have to miss work. Sometimes it’s for a very serious reason, and other times it’s because we did something silly like lock our keys in the car. Throughout my journey as a teacher, I’ve seen and heard of a lot of crazy reasons for people not coming in to work. There are even some people who don’t show up and don’t leave any work for students, and I’m not talking about the last minute, unexpected absence either. Bottom line- while we may not know when we (or a colleague) will be out, we DO know that an unexpected absence will affect us at some point during the year.
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