Girl Math

I always love a scavenger hunt! They are really easy to grade, and the students know where they went wrong if they loop around too early.  This creates a great learning opportunity. The conversations that I heard today were amazing! I mean, these kids are always great at working together, but today was extra special. This is a great way to practice without giving a boring worksheet!  Plus...it's fun for me to watch the students move around the classroom. I mean, they sit ALL day long! I made this a while ago, so in the pictures, you see the students flipping the cards to see the question. For y'all, I put the question and the answer on the same side. It was just easier, because honestly, I don't remember how I copied the papers to get front and back. I probably couldn't do it again if I tried. :) Here is the in class activity: U-Sub  Scavenger Hunt   Here is the NEW digital version: Scavenger Hunt I used SlidesGo for the Treasure Hunt template!  ~RJ

Sampling Distributions can be a bit tricky for students to truly understand and a strong introduction is needed to help ease confusion from the beginning.  In the past, I have tried many different activities, but I have finally found the one.  Yes, The One.  Students were even thanking me as they left the class on a job well-done.  A spreadsheet with the 2016 MLB Players' Salaries was shared with me by a dear colleague a couple of months ago.  Unfortunately, I have already forgotten who it was.  Too bad, because I'd really love to give him (I know that much) props as the sheet is setup beautifully!  Create a copy here .  Here's how it went down... I sent a force-copy of the 2016 MLB Salary sheet to my students via email.  Once everyone had it open, we began choosing random numbers from 1-862 (the number of baseball players).  The first set had n = 2, so each student chose 2 players at random.  The beauty is, they only had to type in the random numbers, the sheet was s