Girl Math

  I'm so excited for this digital activity. I am so tired of worksheets. Yuck! I feel like since we have been hybrid, my creativity has been lacking, so I spent all day creating something that could have been done within an hour for a worksheet. However, it was worth it!  So, I always use slidesmania's templates. They are AWESOME! So, when I saw the building with the elevator template, I had to create an escape room. Thank goodness for slidesmania! She creates the best templates...and shares for free! I love it!  While slidesmania did all of the hard work, it still took a long time to come up with the plan for my actiivty. I thought about it for a while. I finally came up with the idea of an escape room with different options which would take kids to a different room. They have to answer correctly to find the room with the key to get out of the apartment building. What took the longest you ask? Decorating the rooms...I used remove.bg to remove all of the backgrounds. Th...

  After teaching for seventeen years, I have always found students struggle with domain, range, increasing and decreasing. I have also struggled trying to find different ways to teach the concept. Since math came easy to me, I just understood those concepts; however, students really struggle to see what I see. :) This year, my students are finally "getting" the concept of domain and range. For domain, I told the kids that there was a man walking the x-axis looking up and down. Where does he start to see the graph? Where does he stop seeing the graph as he is walking the x-axis? Same for range...a little guy is climbing up the y-axis looking left and right. Where does he start to see the graph? Where does he stop seeing the graph as he climbs? It isn't perfect, but I think the kids got it. As for increasing and decreasing...I told the kids to find the min and max first. Thank God for Desmos! :) I told them to label the x-value for min and max on their graphs. Then I treate...

Ever since NC has designed the Math 3 EOC with more question types besides multiple choice, I have embraced drag and drop activities. They are just so easy for me to grade! And right now, with learning Canvas and making video lessons for all of my classes, I do not have the time to grade. However, I feel that feedback is important, so why not make it easier on myself and allow for students to practice drag and drops for the EOC?  This activity provides the students with practice on solving absolute value equations and inequalities. I also included some application problems as well. It is a short activity, but I think with online learning...it is perfect. Since I use Canvas, I share the assignment using the external tool: Google Assignments (LTI 1.3). I love it! Each student gets a copy and is very similar to Google Classroom where I can make comments on their document. I like this because not every student goes back into Canvas to view comments. However, since I am making comments ...

This project is pretty fun and I've been using it for about 20 years and I have no idea who should get credit for the idea. But like everything else this year, it got a reboot. We converted it into a Desmos project and, quite frankly, I have no idea why we didn't do this years ago! Here's the breakdown. There's a farmer and his pigs. The farmer's wife is convinced that her husband is just taking naps all day instead of working so she records his snoring and compares it the pigs' snoring. She does this by using trig... of course! Each student will have slightly different equations of snores because the periods of the two functions (Brian and the pigs) are based on the cell phone number of the student. It is a little confusing at first, so I spent some time working on the set up with my kiddos. Once they had their graphs figured out, it was smooth sailing. After graphing the snores with sinusoidal functions, the students must then compare the two graphs and decide...

  Gotta love online learning. I created this activity in Google Slides so that students could type in their answers. Only issue - I can't see their work. However, it made it very easy for me to grade. Just wanted to share some of the basic activities that I am trying while doing this online thing. :( If you would like to give your students this activity, click HERE !  ~RJ

I see a lot of teachers using Circuits, so I thought I would try to make one! I created an online interactive circuit using Google Docs for properties of logarithms. I think it would have gone a lot better if students were in class, but overall, I think they received some extra practice. One of the main problems was students not understanding where the question started and where they needed to go. I updated the activity to indicate the questions this time.  I have also been introduced to TeacherMade ! Love it! I didn't use it for this activity, but you definitely could if you saved as a PDF. Teachermade automatically grades your worksheet - which is a life saver since I have three preps, learning Canvas, creating videos, and creating online assessments. I would highly recommend using Teachermade.  If you would like to use this activity, here are the links:  SE Properties of Logs Circuit  TE Properties of Logs Circuit  ~RJ

Most of my activities are geared towards in-class learning, but that has changed now. :( Our district is in a hybrid model with most of the students still working remotely. I made this activity as a quick way for students to show understanding of solving exponential and logarithmic equations. In Canvas, I used the Google LTI add-on for students to show mastery. I really like having all of my content and assignments in Canvas, so I didn't do a link. However, it is very easy to force a copy and link it to whatever platform you are using!  Students move the answers to the correct spot. I made the questions part of the background, so the only movable items are the answers. The kids can't mess it up!  What I love? So easy to grade! :)  If you would like to use this activity, here are the links:  SE Exponential & Log Drag/Drop TE Exponential & Log Drag/Drop