I made a list the other day of all that I want to get accomplished in the next 13 days. Because that's when summer as I know it is over.
Those tasks ranged from packing boxes and picking out paint colors for our upcoming move to figuring out what to take camping this weekend to packing the kids for their 9-day trip to Niagara Falls with my parents to figuring out exactly what I want to do in Math 1 and Math 3.
No biggie.
I sat down the other night to try and figure out this whole Math 1 General thing. It's technically the second half of Math 1 (for those kids who needed it spread out) but I think we all know that these kids haven't mastered the first half yet. And being that I have no idea what their EOC test will look like (because of Ohio's recent removal of PARCC from the docket), I feel like I have a little leniency. (Is that spelled right? Because it doesn't look right but it doesn't have the little red squiggle underneath it showing that it's spelled wrong.)
We don't technically have a book for the class, but I have a copy of Pearson's Math 1 that I'm going to use as a guide. Although I love not being required to do a specific set of sections, I feel like I have an outline to merge with my Pacing Guide.
So my plan is to start the year with the following topics:
Those tasks ranged from packing boxes and picking out paint colors for our upcoming move to figuring out what to take camping this weekend to packing the kids for their 9-day trip to Niagara Falls with my parents to figuring out exactly what I want to do in Math 1 and Math 3.
No biggie.
I sat down the other night to try and figure out this whole Math 1 General thing. It's technically the second half of Math 1 (for those kids who needed it spread out) but I think we all know that these kids haven't mastered the first half yet. And being that I have no idea what their EOC test will look like (because of Ohio's recent removal of PARCC from the docket), I feel like I have a little leniency. (Is that spelled right? Because it doesn't look right but it doesn't have the little red squiggle underneath it showing that it's spelled wrong.)
We don't technically have a book for the class, but I have a copy of Pearson's Math 1 that I'm going to use as a guide. Although I love not being required to do a specific set of sections, I feel like I have an outline to merge with my Pacing Guide.
So my plan is to start the year with the following topics:
I'm thinking we could spend a quarter of the year on that. While I might feel guilty about not doing what I'm "supposed" to, I think these topics are the backbone of any math class the kids will take in the future. So I'm making myself ok with it.
I haven't done a whole lot more with Math 3, except that I talked to a friend of mine who taught Math 2 last year. She's the teacher who tries her hardest not to do any school work over the summer (which is foreign to me) and I had to apologize profusely to make her get back in school mode. I'll make up for it with chocolate in a few weeks. :) I was curious about how much they got to last year in terms of quadratics and was relieved to find out that she factored, solved, and graphed. Again, that doesn't mean that it "stuck" over the summer, but I think a nice little quadratic boot camp will be sufficient.
Oh, and I spent some time editing my foldable. Hopefully the third time's the charm! (Here's a link if you'd like it.)
And because it would make too much sense to work on either of these classes tonight, I've been thinking about how I'm going to do my warm ups/exit slips. I tweeted out a query:
For warm ups and exit tickets - socrative? Plickers? Kahoot? Exittix? Anyone have a preference? Justify your reasoning. :) #MTBoS
— Kristen Fouss (@Fouss) August 4, 2015
I've gotten a nice variety of responses, plus a suggestion to mix it up. That's what I think I'll do, especially at first when I'm trying 'em out in real time.
And another on the generosity of the #mtbos: Mary Bourassa is sharing her documents of warm ups. That's what I call generous. :)
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