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I've been a high school math educator since 2008, teaching all grades 9 through 12, and all levels from university and college bound to essentials/workplace to special needs learners. My products and ideas have been gilded by the frontlines of my own classroom experience. I'm always looking for an innovative way to teach the subject I love!
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Factoring Quadratic Expressions, 30-Sheet Collaborative Math Mosaic
Highly Engaging!! Students practice common factoring, simple and complex trinomial factoring, perfect squares and difference of squares factoring to decode the colour key needed to colour their section of the large 30-section pirate ship mosaic. Every student has a different worksheet, ensuring individual accountability while allowing students to help each other and engage in great math dialog. The end result will look spectacular hanging up in your classroom :) This makes a great unit summa
9th - 12th
Algebra, Math Test Prep, Other (Math)
CCSS
HSA-REI.B.4
, HSA-REI.B.4b
Equation of a Line - Matching Puzzle (Standard Form and Slope Intercept Form)
Every puzzle forms a different 12-letter word! Thirty versions are included to outfit your whole class. It could be fun to have students use their word in a sentence to prove they've finished.Students cut out all the squares on their pre-scrambled sheet Students piece together the squares to make a 3 by 4 rectangle so that all touching edges form a matching pair of Standard Form (Ax + Bx + C = 0) and Slope-Intercept Form (y = mx + b) equations.Correct puzzles will form one of the thirty 12-let
8th - 10th
Algebra, Math Test Prep
CCSS
8.EE.B.6
, 8.F.A.2
Factoring Quadratic Expressions _ American Flag, 25-Sheet Collaborative Mosaic
Highly Engaging!! Students practice common factoring, simple and complex trinomial factoring, perfect squares and difference of squares factoring to decode the color key needed to color their section of the large 25-section American Flag mosaic. Every student has a different worksheet, ensuring individual accountability while allowing students to help each other and engage in great math dialog. The end result will look spectacular hanging up in your classroom or on display for a special day,
9th - 12th
Algebra, Math Test Prep, Other (Math)
CCSS
HSA-REI.B.4
, HSA-REI.B.4b
Factoring Quadratic Expressions, πrate, 30-Sheet Collaborative Math Mosaic
Highly Engaging!! Students practice common factoring, simple and complex trinomial factoring, perfect squares and difference of squares factoring to decode the colour key needed to colour their section of the large 30-section πrate (Pi-rate) mosaic. Every student has a different worksheet, ensuring individual accountability while allowing students to help each other and engage in great math dialog. The end result will look spectacular hanging up in your classroom :) This makes a great unit
9th - 12th
Algebra, Math Test Prep, Other (Math)
CCSS
HSA-REI.B.4
, HSA-REI.B.4b
Factoring Simple Tri-GNOME-ials (x²+bx+c) Collaborative Mosaic
Highly Engaging!! Students get lots of practice factoring simple quadratic trinomial expressions, then use the colour key to colour their section of the large 16-section holiday gnome mosaic. Every student has a different worksheet, ensuring individual accountability while allowing students to help each other and engage in great math dialog. The end result will look spectacular hanging up in your classroom :) INCLUDED: (in both .docx and .pdf format) ◾ Class set of 16 worksheets (all diffe
9th - 11th
Algebra, Math Test Prep, Other (Math)
CCSS
HSA-REI.B.4
, HSA-REI.B.4b
Factoring Quadratic Expressions _ POW! 25-Sheet Collaborative Math Mosaic
Highly Engaging!! Students practice common factoring, simple and complex trinomial factoring, perfect squares and difference of squares factoring to decode the colour key needed to colour their section of the large 25 -section POW! mosaic. Every student has a different worksheet, ensuring individual accountability while allowing students to help each other and engage in great math dialog. The end result will look spectacular hanging up in your classroom :) This makes a great unit summary, te
9th - 12th
Algebra, Math Test Prep, Other (Math)
CCSS
HSA-REI.B.4
, HSA-REI.B.4b
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I've been a high school math educator since 2008, teaching all grades 9 through 12, and all levels from university and college bound to essentials/workplace to special needs learners. My products and ideas have been gilded by the frontlines of my own classroom experience. I'm always looking for an innovative way to teach the subject I love!
Teaching style
Whenever possible, math should be driven by engaging problems that pull students into the concepts and skills I seek to teach. 'Fruitfully frustrated' is a good place to be :)
I enjoy writing and performing math raps (youtube CalfordMath), integrating Geometer's Sketchpad to bring dynamic understanding, gamifying learning (see my product 'Algebra Tile Factris'), and generally pushing creative limits to make math concepts accessible to my students.
I am aware of students' math stigmas and horror stories. I try to build on their natural math intuitions, sidestepping their perceived inability to 'do math' because they never won a class game of around-the-world with multiplication flash cards in grade 4.
My own education history
Concurrent BSc (honours mathematics) / BEd (intermediate/senior) from Brock University, 2008
Honour Specialist in Mathematics from Queen's University, 2012
Additional Qualification in Computer Studies, 2023
Additional biographical information
I'm an avid recreational chess player. I enjoy music, skateboarding, longboarding, rapping, programming (see my product 'Algebra Tile Factirs' for a computer game example, or my 'Colouring by...' products for an automated worksheet product), and doing math for fun (total geek).
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