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Hi there! It’s Kim from Teaching Math by Hart, and I am here to tell you about how I get my students engaged and thinking mathematically within the first 5 minutes of class. Transition times can be rough, especially in the social atmosphere of middle school. Students come into your room, already fully
Assigning homework is tedious, but necessary. To help take the weight off some of your shoulders, I have a FULL YEAR of homework for math in grades 6 – 8 and Algebra 1. Each homework binder covers all grade level skills, devoting at least one entire page of homework to practice on one individual skill.
Don’t hate me. I used to be a bit supporter of nightly homework. My students were old enough to have that responsibility and in my opinion, the extra practice wouldn’t kill them. They expected to have homework for me each night and it seamlessly became part of our daily class routine. I kept reinforcing to
Task Cards are such a versatile resource to use in ANY classroom – not just middle school math classrooms! I’ll be honest. When I first used task cards, I thought they were just glorified index cards. I was frustrated over having to use a sheet of paper and, at the time, valuable copies to print
As I was sitting at my daughter’s dance class last week I overheard a few other moms talking about how many days off school the students were having recently. There was a day off for parent conferences at the end of the first quarter, Election Day, Veteran’s Day, a 2 hour early release for professional
