May is here (or was!).
@GiftedTawk asked about a What is This? puzzle. I didn’t even know this was a hashtag! A new Twitter wormhole for me to get lost in….sigh.
Scratching my head. Post some help to solve this @WITpuzzles. pic.twitter.com/1l3gkuXF51
— Julia's #STEAMing up Learning! (@GiftedTawk) May 1, 2021
I like this virtual Tug of War template created by Esther Park.
Here's a virtual tug-of-war template to encourage student talk & help them identify reasons to support different sides of the issue.
Ss can write or record reasons or "tugs" that pull them towards one side & place their sticky note or voice note on the rope.
Enjoy, friends! pic.twitter.com/aKb8BtnLuZ
— Esther Park (@MrsParkShine) May 3, 2021
Read through this thread to pick up some good ideas for teaching financial literacy. I especially like the addition from Pixi Maths on how she adapted The Game of Life.
Does anyone have a bank of lessons on Financial/Life skills as part of maths enrichment that they’d be happy to share? Thinking saving money, mortgages, loans etc @mathsjem @PixiMaths @Corbettmaths @JaggersMaths
— Aysel (@aysatakan1) May 4, 2021
This SlidesMania template looks like fun for review games.
If you've played Trivial Pursuit Live, you and your students will love this template from @SlidesManiaSM https://t.co/C8oQyFzKNr #edtech #edutwitter #teachertwitter #txed #edchat pic.twitter.com/8qGdXuQTmq
— TCEA (@TCEA) May 4, 2021
Amie showed this problem that her students were tackling. I am thinking how I can turn this into a flow sequence, as per @pgliljedahl’s chapter 10 of #buildingthinkingclassrooms.
https://twitter.com/alcmaths/status/1390368559398785028
I like this prime factor question from Miss Konstantine.
https://t.co/o4FbsBOn3R
Listened to a song from RENT, made me think about 525,600 as a PPF. Wanted Ss to be able to use PPF to check which numbers are factors. When they found 24,60,365 they may notice something significant about those values and what it may calculate pic.twitter.com/HcEmRbpJEr— Miss Konstantine (@giftedHKO) May 9, 2021
Fawn Nguyen shared an envelope puzzle (although I will need to recreate it with the Canadian loonie!).
Lots of versions of this problem. I remember my first encounter was Wanda the Witch and Her Broom.
Fun one to toss out to any grade level really (lower the dollar amount for younger children). pic.twitter.com/VZVZb79y00
— Fawn Nguyen (@fawnpnguyen) May 10, 2021
And JoAnne Sandford shared Fawn Nguyen’s Chewable Math site for some real life proportional reasoning questions.
Teaching ratio and proportion? Check out https://t.co/XFf34inz0j by @fawnpnguyen. Great prompts and cross curricular connections. I remember the exhaustion I felt this time last year and my relief finding this amazing resource!#iteachmath #HRCEmath #AtHomeLearningNS pic.twitter.com/smSwtldJAr
— JoAnn Sandford HRCE Math (@joann_sandford) May 14, 2021
DaNel Hogan reminded me of some of the wonderful interactive resources on The Concord Consortium.
#STEMAZingResource: Are you teaching about #PlateTectonics? Check out this awesome unit for MS and HS from @ConcordDotOrg! In particular, go play with the Seismic Explorer! #EarthScience https://t.co/IlWupsOf8N
— DaNel Hogan (@TheSTEMAZingPro) May 11, 2021
David Butler designed some stick figure health data cards. I can think of so many ways to use them in a data unit. David Petro has suggested some possible uses, and has also created a summary doc with all of the data. You can find that here.
I've just designed a new set of data cards for use in stats workshops, especially with Health Science students. I'm very proud of them. pic.twitter.com/68Nzfo14aM
— David Butler (@DavidKButlerUoA) May 14, 2021
A linear functions menu task was shared (created by Amie Albrecht). The original can be found here. I recently had a chance to listen to Nat Banting explain his menu math structure and I am excited to try it out next year.
Nice little linear equations task #wymhgcse by @nomad_penguin (i think!) pic.twitter.com/YvlgD4uni9
— π/8 Chadwick (@redmanwinoshoes) May 14, 2021
PixiMaths shared some activities that cross over with science.
New lesson: problem-solving with compound measures. I couldn't find any resources on this so researched different alloys to make some questions! Hope it's useful https://t.co/fjqC7b8eoJ @mathsjem @boss_maths @mrbartonmaths @goteachmaths @Just_Maths @Arithmaticks @MrMattock pic.twitter.com/oSlKjlpV4c
— PixiMaths (@PixiMaths) May 22, 2021
I like this logical thinking game from Ms. Messineo.
I played this with my 8th graders today and had them try to figure out who has the advantage and the winning strategy. Most didn’t quite get there but one class got super into it so I’ll take that as a win the 2nd to last week of school. pic.twitter.com/OFbu1CRNky
— Ms. Messineo (@MsMessineo) May 20, 2021
Kiran Bacche tweeted about the Sliding Rooks math game on DHiMath. There are also many others to explore.
#math #games @jamestanton @YamunaN6 @Kweenigma @trivedipriyanka @nileshtrivedi @mathemalicious @TijanaMarkovi05 @magiaymates @gamesbygord @MathPsychology @lilmathgirl @GlobalMathProj @dhimathorg @theJRMF
Check out the "Sliding Rooks" Online Math Game at https://t.co/ibSvPYEquS pic.twitter.com/VIWNPFiN6r
— Kiran Bacche (@KiranABacche) May 24, 2021
Eric Curts tweeted about four interactive simulations to conceptualize the respective size of items in the universe.
https://twitter.com/ericcurts/status/1389998160928518147
Chris Smith shared this neat data activity.
Not your average task, if you get what I mean. pic.twitter.com/IYHOEMVT3Q
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) May 24, 2021
Em Bell shared this volume ratio puzzle. There are many other puzzles on her website.
Puzzle 037 – Cuboid https://t.co/uzAclfLg2e#Puzzle #MTBoS #EMMAths pic.twitter.com/1BNS8FBddN
— Em Bell (@El_Timbre) May 22, 2021
And just for fun….go play some Boggle with your students with Jennifer Casa-Todd’s template or check out Matt Coaty’s Desmos Mastermind task.
This makes my heart happy. Here's my template if you are interested: https://t.co/bvg3cFRfNm https://t.co/SfTNCiMePN
— Jennifer Casa-Todd (@JCasaTodd) May 7, 2021
First time using a mastermind task. Worked well w/partners in a breakout room and will be trying this with another grade level tomorrow. https://t.co/2I4Q7FSyum #mtbos pic.twitter.com/8BC5LkZfYk
— Matt Coaty (@Mcoaty) May 13, 2021
