This week we focused on Order of Operations without exponents. I developed a great activity that allowed students to analyze different problems while looking for mistakes. I instructed the students that they were human lie detectors 🙂 . Students determined if the statements where Truths or Lies. Students worked through each problem justifying why the problem was a Truth and why the problem was a Lie. They sorted the cards onto the sorting mat which has QR codes to reveal the correct answers.
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Next the students played a partner game in which students “Choose Your Fate”. Students were given an equation card with a QR Code. The partner chooses the fate (which step to solve the problem to) of the other partner. This is a great activity to really focus in on which step is first and which step is third and so on. This is also a QR Code activity which reveals all the steps to solve each equation. This is very rigorous and really helped my students slow down and look at each individual step!
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On Friday we began one of my favorite units which is coordinate grids. I love to integrate literature whenever possible, so we started off the unit with the Fly on the Ceiling by Julie Glass. This is a great book to begin learning coordinates and it actually tells a story about how Rene Decartes developed the coordinate system. Afterwards the students had their own flies on the ceiling activity to practice plotting flies onto a coordinate grid. I bought little plastic flies from Amazon. The students LOVED this activity!
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Until next time!
Peace, Love and Math!
Jennifer
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