Task Cards helped my students rock their test on combining like terms. Let me explain- In my school we have a set aside time for reteach- giving students more time to show mastery on a concept that they don’t quite have when they take the first class formative assessment. I was working with a group of 7th grade students who were close to mastery, but not quite there yet. None of them had passed the Combining Like Terms test on the first go around. This group of students weren’t in my regular class, and this was the only time that I would work with this particular group. So, I had to make sure that the learning activities we did wouldn’t require a lot of explanation or routines needing to be set up. [Read more…] about Combining Like Terms with Distributive Property: Task Cards in Action
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Designing Task Cards for the Math Classroom
What do high quality task cards look like in the middle school classroom? Earlier, I reflected on just how much I’ve fallen in love with using task cards. Today I want to share some adjustments and “add-ons” I use with task cards to make sure they are effective. There are three specific things I wanted to make sure I addressed when designing task cards: self-correction and feedback, student accountability, and increasing complexity.
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Task Cards in the Middle School Math Classroom
I was quickly converted to task cards after becoming a math teacher and now I can’t imagine teaching without them. Math task cards take center stage in my classroom now. I’m so excited to share with you 10 simple ways math task cards can energize your classroom! [Read more…] about Task Cards in the Middle School Math Classroom
