I'm beginning my 13th year as a middle school math teacher, mostly in 7th (4 years) and 8th grade math (9 years). I'm also lucky enough to teach one section of high school algebra/Integrated 1 each year!
See this project in action here: 10 Awesome Student Desmos Art Projects (Boomerangs)This project is an excellent way to get to know your students--even from afar!--while they engage in learning and practicing writing linear equations (vertical, horizontal, and slanted lines). The image they choose to "trace" using www.desmos.com is a great way to learn about their passions at the beginning of the year all while reviewing skills from previous years. This is a perfect project for the beginning of
★ Growing Resource! More words will be added (feel free to make a requrest!) and this will grow into a bundle with digital options for both Google and Microsoft paperless options!★ Help support English Learners (and ALL learners!) in your math class by explicitly teaching high-use academic math vocabulary. This product was crafted after attending an incredible professional development session by Kate Kinsella Ed. D, author of English 3D, who outlines a vocabulary routine which engages students
Students will BEG to play this game! Perfect for the beginning of the school year to get students back into the swing of things, this game requires students to think logically, use clues, listen to one another, and work together to determine a mystery 3-digit number using the fewest guesses possible. Once students know how to play, this game can be student-led! It is especially great to leave in your sub plans, "If students work diligently on today's lesson, let them know they can have the last
Get your students energized about working together! This is a perfect game to use at the beginning of the school year to emphasize the importance of collaboration. Students will play three rounds of a memory game involving math symbols--the first time they play alone, then in partners, finally in a group. Almost all students will do better in the game with a partner and almost all partners will do better with a whole group! Download includes instructions, debrief questions and ideas, tips, an
Get your students' brains back from Summer using this fun, collaborative (and SILENT!) math game! WORKS WITH MANY EQUATIONS: direct variation, slope-intercept, x^2, x^3, exponential equations, absolute value equations... Perfect for the beginning of the school year, especially if you begin the year with expressions or equations. This game requires students to determine a mystery equation through the use of logic when inputs are revealed one by one. Students will try their ideas and come up wit
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Experience
I'm beginning my 13th year as a middle school math teacher, mostly in 7th (4 years) and 8th grade math (9 years). I'm also lucky enough to teach one section of high school algebra/Integrated 1 each year!
Teaching style
My classroom is student-centered and the expectation is that group work and collaboration will happen every day. I'm not a stand and teach kinda gal and hope to be even more on the side this year as I start Math Workshop for the first time!
My own education history
BS in Liberal Studies from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
MA in Educational Technology from Touro University California
I hold both a multiple subjects teaching credential and a single subject math credential.
Additional biographical information
My teaching career has taken me all over California and I have taught an amazingly diverse group of students in the 13+ years I have been in the classroom. After spending four years teaching in the Mission District of San Francisco I landed in beautiful Napa with my husband and three year old son.
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