September is off to a great start. Here are some highlights from my week:
1. This activity:
I love that this task is accessible and challenging to different level learners. Students who didn’t know their multiplication facts used drawing and square tiles to help them figure out the dimensions. Higher level students were able to tackle part C.
2. Problems of the week from the Math Forum
After watching Annie Fetter’s webinar about Math Forum’s Problems of the Week, I am hooked. Not only is it a great source of interesting tasks, the teacher resources for engaging students in solving problems are awesome!
3. Mystery number
Kids love solving puzzles. At the start of the week, each student in the class picked a favorite number. Every day when the students entered the class, they listed different facts about their number. The day I visited they were working on factors. A student would share the factors for his or her mystery number and the class would have to guess the mystery number. I’ve never seen kids so excited about factors.
Unrelated to work, I am loving training in this fall weather for my next half-marathon. I am also loving that is pumpkin spice latte season (even though I’m a little sad to see iced coffee season leave) What about you? What are you loving this week?