Makin' Math Magic

My students struggle with any multiple choice standardized math question.(or any multiple choice test question!!) I posted a very wordy multiple choice question on my board and asked students to read it quietly for 2 minutes and then asked: "How many of you lost interest half-way through this problem and would just say choice C sounds good?" Almost every single one of my students raised their hand!!! My students struggle with multiple choice math problems and I needed to find a way to help them

I like to make my middle school math room more exciting so I have a bulletin board where I display "Of the Month" items such as number of the month, etc. It gives me an opportunity to bring math to life!!! I use it for mathematical discussions all month long in my classroom!! This download includes my August/September or Welcome month information that includes all of my "......Of the Month" items. I also have another download available that includes an entire year of "......... Of the Mon

I like to play "Weird Science" or "She Blinded Me With Science" to start our Scientific Notation BATTLE!!! Scientific Notation Battle gives your students an opportunity to practice scientific notation skills while playing a game with a classmate!! The skills included are -converting from standard notation to scientific notation -converting from scientific notation to standard notation -multiplying in scientific notation -dividing in scientific notation -adding in scientific notation -word probl

I LOVE starting my class every day with a warm-up! I LOVE a problem of the week for students to work on with classmates or alone and I can see their thinking process! I don't like collecting homework daily! I use this handout for all three every week. Students can do their daily warm-up, get a stamp for daily homework and have their problem of the week all in once place!! Students write their homework in the square provided(and in their planner of course!!) and the stamp for credit will go ove

I use this as one of the options for a final review project for my 8th grade math class. I print front/back. Students work in pairs to fill the jeopardy template with questions and answers. We work in class and students are expected to finish two topics (one for each partner)each day. Whatever questions they do not finish are homework. I then check those two topics the next day in class on the spreadsheet on the last page so most of the grading is already done before the project is due. The p

This is a nice review for the Laws of Exponents. It includes some short answer problems as well.