Math Monkey

Translation ppt description This PowerPoint is eight slides long and introduces one of transformation (translation) to intermediate students. Slide #4 stresses the horizontal and vertical movement of each point. Slide #5 and 6 introduces the correct labeling “prime and double prime”. The exit question slide reviews three concepts that I wanted to stress; vocabulary, horizontal & vertical movement, and labeling. This is short and sweet but if students understand this, they should have success

Pyramids and Volume ppt description Explore how to find volume of real world pyramids. This lesson satisfies the some of the requirements for common core G.GMD.3. It is well suited for the intermediate (middle) school students. A prerequisite for this lesson is that students know how to use Pythagorean Theorem. Slide #2 is the vocabulary slide, be sure to look at the PowerPoint notes because it contains the concepts that are to be stress with each slide. Slides #3-4, shows how to draw a pyr

Multiplying Integers Rules ppt description A math teacher shared this with me at a math competition a couple of years. It uses a tic-tac-toe board to teach integers rules for multiplying and dividing I decided to make a slide show with it. Students will often put a tic-tac-toe board on their quizzes.

This is a reward for students to raise their grades. I give students a choice between eating with the principal and the counselor. If the student reaches a predetermined goal (i.e. increase grade from 54% to 64%) then they are rewarded. I kept the file as a word document so you can make modifications.

This is just a table of squares from 1 to 20. It is a nice reference sheet for students.