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I need your help….
This summer I will be at home planning for next year’s students. Imagine that you are helping me to plan for my classes next year (actually, you ARE helping me). Comment below on which activities you enjoyed most in our math class and which activities helped you to LEARN the math concepts best. Be sure to EXPLAIN why/how the activity helped you. Below are a few examples of things we did this year:
- carousel activities (where you go around the room solving equations taped to the wall)
- popcorn activities (you selected small crumpled pieces of paper with equations on them to solve with your group)
- group work
- mastery stamps (I’d go around and stamp papers with correct solutions — and then you’d help stamp)
- homework (well, someone might have enjoyed this)
- Help Table (during seatwork, you could come back to the table for help
- dry erase boards
- independent seatwork (we didn’t do much of it, but you might have enjoyed it)
- “I Say, You Say” game to help you work with function tables
- computer lab (this activity or the times we went to work on math practice games in the lab)
- OP help
- any other activities or strategies I used to help you
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I actually liked all of the activities we did this year. I like the variety. I’m not sure if we had enough variety each week, but I’m sure you’ll tell me your thoughts, too….
I loved the Stamp activity because students learn easier from their peers than from a teacher and Being an ‘expert’ helps finalize that topic inside your head.
Very well stated. I agree that your peers can sometimes help you to understand the topic better so you can “own” the information that you are learning. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
WELL MY FAVORITE PART WAS WHEN WE GOT IN ARE BUDDY GROUPS AND DID POPCORN TO STUDY FOR OUR FINALS WHICH I GOT 76%
Remind me again… is that the day I left the index cards and I had a substitute?
i like all the activities we do in math.. but you could show cool funny math videos or play math games on the computer, do work with partners but you do like all those things…
Math videos is a really good idea for next year. I do have a collection of cartoons but I didn’t use any of them this year…. thanks for the suggestion.
This year i lovvvvvvved luve d\\<<<<<<<<3333 the way that yu taught area and mean i thnk tht yu shud continue to teach every thng the way that yu teach and keep given out those jollyranchers and all uv yur classes will continue to luv yu just lyk i do but either way and i hope to see you nxt year
much luv
Alexis
Hi Alexis, I am soooooooooooo thrilled that you loved the area and mean lessons. Do you remember what part of the lesson you liked, so I can be sure to that again? Thanks for your important feedback.
I loved everything we did this year. But you also have to go by what you wanna teach us. But if its the childrens ideas, then we are just trying to get stuff that is easy and fun. Not the stuff that we need to learn how to do more.
Yes, there are very specific skills that I need to teach you each year to get you ready for the next year and, eventually, for the math you will need in your real world outside of class. Did you have a favorite activity?
ummmmmm not really? I think i liked the groups because it made me focus and I love how i get help when i need it. Besides when people wouldn’t help me.. Some people say NO you can do it yourself.
I liked the volume of a cylinder activity. I also had fun doing the “stamp activity” because you get to compete with the people at your table
Hmmm…. you’re right…. you did get to “compete” — even though that’s not really how I had it planned, it is very encouraging for some students to compete with their group to see who can “win” the expert stamp first. Have a great summer.
omg! I LOVED EVERY ACTIVITY! Your students will like all of them because they are fun and it will teach them alot.so you should do all of them and see how they like them
Kattie, tell me one or two specific ones that were helpful for you.
i like when we did proportions
i loved the proportions to they were really easy . =]
i like thee…
op thing
the popcorn thing
and i think u should do more hand on hand thing
What do you mean by “the OP thing” — explain in more detail, so I will know exactly what part to do again….
i like the merry go round activity, when there’s differnt questions around the room that we have to answer(:
I like that one, too, because you guys can get up and move around while you’re learning. Is that why you like it, too?
I liked a lot of the activites we did this year. They have all helped me with my understanding of the math concepts. My favorites were probably going around the room solving the problems,the back table group work with the dry erase boards, and regular group work/group games.
I like the carousel activities, too, where you move around the room. Can you explain WHY you like those? Is it the movement, the discussions, the freedom???
I really liked it because we could move around istead of staying in our seats all day. It was nice to know you would always help us too.
the funest activity was the help table because if you need help you can go back there
I like the stamp because it made my notebook pretty : ) I especaially like the penguin one. It was cute. I also enjoyed “I say, you say” beacuse you got candy if you got the answer correct! I like candy…. a lot : D
i liked the stamp activity and also i loved that you let us take some test over and let us have a couple of days to do our homework. i also liked the jolly rancher warm-up that was really fun
i liked it becuse we were so active and we did not sit around so it was fun while we learned alot.
The carousel activitie, because we got to work with a partner and at our own pase.
I liked in your classroom alot because we were reviewed and review some more for major testaslo i liked how when we teached we never rushed in doing the lessons and 1 more thing is that we always had a good time learning math
i liked group work because it helped me learn stuff from other people and get tips.
The dry erase boards were pretty awesome. (Haha, my grammar needs work. xD)
Like, Keep Change Change and all that stuff. 
But I think your teaching methods were the best this year. They helped me out A LOT.
I’m gonna teach my sister those methods when she gets to Middle School.
I enjoyed walking around the class to do mathg problems.
I think that the group work was most helpful because you get to see other people’s way of doing thing and you can help people with what they dont know
i liked the dry erase because wene we write it out we understand it beter.
i think that all of these ideas helped me. your new incoming students will love these ideas because they will have no problem passing. keep up the good work!!!!!!! <3
One activity that i liked is the popcorn activity because we were able to get up and move around and talk (about math) in stead of just sitting in one seat silently.
I think that group work helped alot because you have about 4 or 5 people at your table that is there to heip you , and it gives you the teacher a little more time to teach because youo will’nt have to stop and explaine stuff because thats what the groups are for. The next thing was the dry erase bordes , I guess it was just fun , I mean because it gets kind of boring just writting with pencils , its a change.
Simone thanks for the great feedback. I like the group work and dry erase strategy, too.