My Favorite Friday - Whiteboards

There are things I really love about my classroom.... This is one of them :)

Our desks are dry-erase, so part of my school supply list is a white board marker.

Also notice their notebooks open too... my kiddos LOVE their notebooks! (Thanks @mgolding!)

Happy Friday :)

My Favorite Friday - #21

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@MrsCookKHS - Math Memes

@tbanks1906 - MyFavFriday: Properties Of Logarithms Foldable

@druinok - Whiteboards

Made4Math - Function Operations

It feels like it's been forever since I blogged! One of my New Year Resolutions was to find more balance in my life and while I'm happy to report that it is going well, it has meant a decrease in things like blogs and twitter. I've not had an extremely creative semester, so far, but here's some goodies from this past week :)

Function Operations
Last week, one of our lessons was on function operations... you know, (f+g), (f-g), f(g(x)), etc and honestly I thought it would go very smoothly since we had already done polynomials. Oh my goodness... it was a diaster! I did a self-guided worksheet (you can see it HERE), and thought the kids would zoom through it, but no... it took us TWO DAYS! I was at my wit's end and so frustrated because it was issues that I did not even anticipate!

Anyway, to make a long story short, we needed practice... and LOTS of it! So I grabbed my handy flash cards, a marker, and one of my big dice and here we went...

We picked an f(x) and a g(x), then rolled the dice to tell us what to do. It was definitely good practice! Crisis averted!

Inverses Foldable
So the next day, our lesson was on function inverses. It had been a while since we had done a foldable, so we did a foldable for our notes.

Let's just say that after a stressful week, I enjoyed coloring the foldable! :)

Get the entire foldable HERE

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The rest of this week's posts are now archived at Made4Math.blogspot.com - Head over there to see the rest of the goodies this week! :)

My Favorite Friday #20

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@MrsCookKHS - Leap frog activity for function behavior

@heather_kohn - #myfavfriday Jigsaw Puzzle Software

@misscalcul8 - Cheap White Board Erasers

My Favorite Friday - Week 19

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@misscalcul8 - Slope Formula

Tom Ward - My Favorite Texting Policy

Kristin - Hoppe Ninja Math - Teacher Blog

@gwaddellnvhs - My Pens

@algebrainiac1 - Loving the Internet & Seating Chart Heaven

Radical Rational - Developing Definitions

Tom Ward - My Favorite (Audible) Timer: Pandora

#Made4Math - Happy New Year!

Can you believe we have had SIX months of #Made4Math goodness? To help keep things organized, I've created a new blog for the archive posts, so from now on, all of the amazing things you've shared will be archived over at Made4Math.blogspot.com :) Make sure you update your bookmarks!

So in case you haven't noticed, #Made4Math has been on hiatus for a few weeks. That's because the month of December is crazy busy for everyone and honestly, we all need a break every so often! However, that just means that we've all had time to rest and rejuvenate to be able to share more amazing ideas in 2013!! :)

Project #1 - Quadratics Flashback
To be perfectly honest, this school year has kicked me in the booty! I felt like a hamster in a wheel most days and daily it was a struggle to get everything done. So I've had several projects sitting in the wings, just waiting to be shared! :)

In case you've not noticed, I really, really, REALLY love me some foldables! So back in August, when Nora of Simplifying Radicals posted her discriminant foldable, I knew I was going to steal it someday :) (Sidenote: If you've not read Nora's blog, go there now! It's amazing and chock-ful of math goodness!)

I love foldables for helping my algebra 2 kiddos take (and organize) their notes, but we needed some practice as well, so enter this matching activity...

Get the file HERE if you want it :)

Project #2 - Polynomials Foldable
Right before Winter break, we started Polynomials in Algebra 2. As you probably know, there is a TON of vocabulary that goes with that!! As a result, I knew my little cherubs would have a swell time writing down all that information, so instead I combined it into a foldable :)

I mean, SERIOUSLY! Look at all that information! Whew, that was a LLLLOOONNNGGG day of notes :(

If you would like the foldable, click HERE

Don't Forget!!!!
The rest of this week's posts are now archived at Made4Math.blogspot.com - Head over there to see the rest of the goodies this week! :)

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