School is starting back soon!

I'm thrilled about a new year starting.  My focus this year hasn't really been on the classroom, it has been on management and lessons.  I am fortunate enough to have taught all of the courses I'm teaching in previous years!  I fell off last year (only one math class a semester doesn't give much time to focus on blogging about it).  But I'm back with a full math schedule.

Let's talk rules...

Ugh.  I hate thinking about the rules.  I know I want to keep them simple, but I always feel like I'm missing the million things I wish I could have posted, but they would become watered down.  So after a little contemplating what is important these are the rules that I came up with.

This year we have a new phone policy across the entire school for the cell phone jail.  I am stoked!!  This should cut back on referrals, but also keep me on my toes.  I should present A-game lessons.  This week I will be revealing another inspiration from this summer or a printable.  The graphic above was created using piktochart.com  It creates info-graphics that are pinterest worthy.  I want to do all my notes on their site.  I ended up getting the educator plan for $39.99/year.  Well worth it.

Inequalities: Flipping the sign

So my kids love the interactive notebook and were pouting that I didn't have some cool new foldable for this most recent unit.  The first reason being that one step and multi-step equations are practically the same methods for solving inequalities.  But I knew that I wanted to find something awesome to drive home when to flip the inequality sign.  After searching Google for at least three days, I found it!

Changing Image Tutorial  They include images for a tutorial on how to put it together and include a template.

I am slightly afraid my children with ADHD will be lost for the rest of the day as they make the sign flip, but at the same time they should be brainwashed by the time is all said and done.

This took a bit longer than anticipated, but the kids really enjoyed the final product.