EasierThanPie
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Mantua, Ohio, United States
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I began my teaching career at an inner city Charter School, where I had to develop my own resources and lessons due to the lack of resources. Now I teach in a district where low socioeconomic status is the norm. I choose to look at this as a challenge to be better and more creative, rather than letting the low funding and little resources stifle my students' learning and progress. You'll find just a few of the things that I have created to make learning more interactive and fun in my classroom.
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Parallelograms and Triangles Practice
In my experience, students always struggle with remembering when to divide area by two, and when to leave it as just base multiplied by the height. I have discovered that students do MUCH BETTER when they first understand the relationship between parallelograms and triangles, which is the goal of this practice sheet. :)
Students will calculate the area of pairs of parallelograms and triangles that have the same base and height. This helps students to see that the area of a triangle will alway
5th - 8th
Geometry, Math, Other (Math)
CCSS
6.G.A.1
Discovering Surface Area
Use this lesson to engage your students in calculating surface area in a real-world context.
Students work in teams to calculate the surface area of various packaging. This allows them to have something tangible to work with, and to see where the formula or other methods for calculating surface area come from! My students love this lesson, and often say it is what they remember most because it was hands-on learning.
This lesson/activity should be an introductory lesson to Surface Area. St
6th - 8th
Geometry, Math, Measurement
CCSS
6.G.A.4
, 7.G.B.6
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Experience
I began my teaching career at an inner city Charter School, where I had to develop my own resources and lessons due to the lack of resources. Now I teach in a district where low socioeconomic status is the norm. I choose to look at this as a challenge to be better and more creative, rather than letting the low funding and little resources stifle my students' learning and progress. You'll find just a few of the things that I have created to make learning more interactive and fun in my classroom.
Teaching style
I love data, and I love games - both are prevalent in my classroom! My students are responsible for tracking their progress, and I'm responsible for teaching them and giving them the tools and resources they need to succeed. Sometimes these resources are games and activities, and other times they are pretests, quizzes and post-tests. It all depends on the duties of the day. I try to vary my teaching and strategies from day to day.
My own education history
I graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Middle Childhood Education for Math and ELA in 2014. Since then I have attended workshops and professional developments to stay up to date on new strategies and best practices.
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