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Temple's Tidbits

Rated 5 out of 5, based on 6 reviews

Ada, Ohio, United States

About the store

I started teaching in the 1996-1997 school year at a rural school in east central Ohio. While there, I taught business math, elementary algebra 1 & 2, and geometry. I came to my current school in the 1999-2000, started with calculus, pre-calc, trigonometry and algebra 1. over the years I've changed the math classes I've taught, even threw in a few middle school reading classes along the way. Math is my absolute favorite. I currently teach geometry, integrated 3, and algebra 3. No matter what I've been teaching, I've loved it.

Unit Circle Decoded

Transformation Guidelines: Making better descriptions & sketches

Trigonometry Flash Cards? Nope, not us. We use the Unit Wheel!

Programming & Math: Get into programming by starting with your TI-83 or 84

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Trigonometry Flash Cards? Nope, not us. We use the Unit Wheel!

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Temple's Tidbits

Wanted to make flash cards for the exact values of the trig functions and the needed formulas, but once I sat down to get started... it seemed a bit overwhelming. So many different formulas, so many different directions to know the information in. I came up with a very basic design first and over the years it's turned into quite the information toting little resource. Several of my former students have said how helpful it was in college, students who didn't have me for class wanted one, and a

10th - 12th, Higher Education

Geometry, Other (Math), PreCalculus

Transformation Guidelines: Making better descriptions & sketches

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Temple's Tidbits

For my IEP students this set of guidelines is very useful. It helps them stay organized when they are setting up their descriptions of transformed functions. It also aids them in knowing which transformations they should perform first to end up with the best approximate graph of a transformation. I do hand this out to all of my students when we first start reviewing transformations, but only my IEP students are able to use them on their assessments. There seems to be quite some differing opin

8th - 11th

Algebra, Algebra 2, PreCalculus

Identifying Quadrilaterals

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Temple's Tidbits

I've been teaching Geometry for 20+ years and have always found that students try to rely too heavily on visualization to complete geometry tasks. When teaching students about the family of quadrilaterals it is very easy for them to pick out scale pictures of the quadrilaterals, but when it came time to identify the quadrilaterals from a description, or to know which properties to look at for proving quadrilaterals one thing or another they struggled. I came up with this as a worksheet first.

9th - 10th

Geometry

Geometric Constructions

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Temple's Tidbits

Step by step instructions with diagrams for the geometric constructions required by state standards. My students can usually perform most of these constructions (we use deltamath mostly) without needing to read the instructions here, but they like to have this handout to double check with on some of the more advanced constructions.

9th - 11th

Geometry

CCSS

HSG-CO.D.12

, HSG-CO.D.13

, HSG-C.A.3

Unit Circle Decoded

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Temple's Tidbits

So many times I hear from students that they memorized the unit circle, it's radian & exact values at each special angle measure, much like I did when I was in school. If we had only known.... It's so much easier to remember when you can put it together with something simple like the order of some fractions between 0 and 2 or the order of some square roots between 0 and 1. I've used this with my own students and with students I tutor. Once they make the connections laid out in this sheet, it's

9th - 12th

Geometry, Other (Math)

CCSS

HSG-SRT.C.8

Condensed Geometry Notes - Circles

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Temple's Tidbits

Pretty much everything your geometry students need to know about circles... all on one little informational wheel. My students love having it all in one spot and have actually asked me to do this more often so this is the first one I am sharing on tpt. I have a couple of others, but getting them done digitally takes some time. Check back, I'll try to get a couple more done, but as you all know... spring it is, and it's a busy time of year ;)

9th - 12th, Higher Education

Geometry, Math Test Prep, Measurement

CCSS

HSG-C.A.2

Programming & Math: Get into programming by starting with your TI-83 or 84

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Temple's Tidbits

A friend got me hooked... gave me one little program, I started reading the manual to figure out how to do more with programs. It's great for students who have an interest in programming, also for students who get done fast or want something more to do. Of course I do not give them programs that do what we are currently learning, just for what we've already learned. If you've got some high achievers I hope they have as much fun with this as I did. Pretty awesome, some of the things you can do

9th - 12th

Computer Science - Technology, Geometry, Instructional Technology

CCSS

MP2

, MP4

, MP5

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Experience

Teaching style

I started in the era of lecture and example. I wish I could say that I've got the project performance thing completed nailed, but I don't. I keep trying, but I'm never quite satisfied with my work so I'm always try to improve on it.

Awards & shining teacher moments

None of my honors/awards came with evidence, really. I was asked by the senior class of 2007 to be the graduation speaker, I am facebook friends with a lot of my former students who still ask me for help now and then, Had the privilege of working with some of the best math educators in the country through a local college.