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Grouping Symbols Poster
The other day I set out to re-create my order of operations posters because I just feel like they are lacking something. Plus, the fact that the M is not the same size as the other letters has been...
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#ReadThree - Crime Scenes, Cubic Meters, and Trigonometry
Earlier this summer, I read Pam Wilson'sRead Three posts. Her goal was to find three new math teacher blogs to read and pick a favorite post from each to blog about. I enjoyed reading her posts and...
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Free Printable Math-y Welcome Banner
So, I'm not at #TMC16, but I've been following along with the adventures on Twitter as best as I can. I've seen a ton of tweets about Sara VanDerWerf's math-y badges. Image Source:...
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New Name Poster
I've had the same sign outside of my classroom for four years now. In fact, it was one of my first classroom creations as a first-year-teacher. The problem is 1) I am no longer Ms. Hagan and 2) I no...
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New Left and Right Posters for my Classroom
So, I feel like I need to apologize in advanced because this blog is getting ready to be taken over by posters. I've got a new classroom to decorate, and I'm taking full advantage of that...
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SOHCAHTOA Posters
Yesterday, I printed off a heap of posters and started laminating them. Earlier this summer, I had no idea how I wanted to decorate my new classroom. I looked on pinterest for ideas, but it seemed...
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Printable Vertical Number Line Posters
Bad news. I printed off a bunch of new posters, drove up to school to hang them up/take pictures for my blog, and had to turn around and go back home because the custodians have waxed the floors. We...
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Printable Parts of the Coordinate Plane Magnets
Ready for more posters and more pictures taken in the floor of my living room? I have this lovely dry erase graph board in my classroom. (Okay. It's actually still in my old classroom. But, it will...
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Pythagorean Triple Posters
With a new classroom to decorate, I've been brainstorming math-y things I could hang on my wall. I'm teaching Algebra 1, Trig, and Math Concepts (a class for 9th graders not yet ready for Algebra 1)...
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Posters of Perfect Squares and Perfect Cubes
If you like making math pretty and colorful, you must check out Clarissa Grandi's website! The idea for the posters I'm posting below came from her beautiful classroom displays which she has posted...
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Growth Mindset Mistakes Poster
A continual focus in my classroom is helping my students build a growth mindset. One quote I've seen time and time again when it comes to mindset is "Mistakes are expected, respected, inspected, and...
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Red/Yellow/Green Team Cups Posters
One of my favorite strategies to use during group/team work is red/yellow/green cups. I bought a package of each color of cups at Party City a few years ago. I'm still using the same cups, so they've...
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Special Right Triangle Posters
Since I'm teaching trig this year, I wanted to create some posters to jog my students' memories about special right triangles. I designed the title to print on 8.5" x 11" and the triangle posters to...
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Rainbow Logic - An Activity to Promote Discussion in Group Work
First off, how is it already August?!? This month, I'm participating in Blaugust, a blog challenge to blog every day in August. You can check out a list of other participating bloggers here.Remember...
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New Order of Operations Posters
Yesterday, I was allowed back in my classroom for what feels like the first time in forever. They waxed the floors, and we had to wait ten whole days for the wax to dry. For a teacher who lives for...
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Area Maze Puzzles
A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet from Lisa Bejarano that sparked hours of google searching and oohing and aahing and saving every single puzzle I could get my hands on.The puzzles are known as "area...
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Volume 1: Japanese Logic Puzzles for the Secondary Math Classroom
I left a teaser at the end of yesterday's blog post which probably wasn't the nicest thing to do. Sorry! :) To catch you up, I posted about some awesome area and volume puzzles created by Naoki...
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Volume 2: Japanese Logic Puzzles for the Secondary Math Classroom
This is a continuation of a blog series about logic puzzles created by Naoki Inaba (creator of the area maze puzzle I blogged about here) that can be used in the secondary math classroom. Actually, I...
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Volume 3: Japanese Logic Puzzles for the Secondary Math Classroom
This is a continuation of a blog series about logic puzzles created by Naoki Inaba (creator of the area maze puzzle I blogged about here) that can be used in the secondary math classroom. Actually, I...
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Volume 4: Japanese Logic Puzzles for the Secondary Math Classroom
This is the last installment (at least for now) of a blog series about logic puzzles created by Naoki Inaba (creator of the area maze puzzle I blogged about here) that can be used in the secondary math...
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