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for bulletin boards at fractions of the dollar of what you would pay at the bigger stores i agree completely i have no blinds or any other window covering in my classroom so the sun is always beating in and heating up the room i went to a local thrift store and picked up fabric that i fashion curtains out of not only does it cool the room but it looks amazing too in addition to thrift stores you can also check out garage yard sales especially for storage bins and other containers for holding books and supplies 3 use teacher discounts and rewards programs multiple stores not only have special discounts for teachers but they also have rewards programs barnes and noble bookstores has a teacher discount program as do official teacher stores like lakeshore learning the major office supply stores like office max office depot and staples have a special teacher rewards program where you earn money back coupons and other deals on purchases often these discounts can also be combined with coupons so double savings 4 prioritize your shopping list and buy in bulk when possible the reality is that as much as we want everything we don t need everything when sitting down to figure out what you are going to buy for your classroom your upcoming school year or for your child ren s up coming school year that sometimes you have to realize that everything is just not possible money is limited and some supplies are more necessary than others figure out what is the most important most crucial and what is going to have the greatest impact and purchase those things first once you have figured out the most necessary things see if you can buy them in bulk while the bigger package is going to be more expensive it will more often than not work out to be cheaper per individual piece than if bought smaller amounts also don t be afraid to use the store off brand for supplies that are consumable a glue stick is a glue stick regardless of what label is on it construction paper is the same paper if it is a store brand or a name brand 5 jamie from miss math dork takes it a step further and encourages you to make a budget or else it s too easy to keep buying one more thing shop in stores that have a sale going on and check out thrift shops and yard sales for nice storage options i try to buy a little bit at a time all year and keep it stored until bts time knowing what you have to spend and setting a limit will not only make you a frugal shopper but will also help you to stick to your list and you should always make a list 6 figure out what you already have i cannot count the number of times that i have shopped for my classroom bought something and then when i set up my room in the fall i find out that not only did i already have it but in some cases i have it it in abundance for example i found a great deal on index cards then realized that i had 20 packs stuck in a cupboard in my closet whoops i recommend taking the time to make a list of what you already have making a list of what you already have not only keeps you from spending money that you don t need to but it also encourages you to examine what is really essential what you do you use a lot of glue sticks paper etc and running out of and are there things that you thought would be so great but you never used or forgot about 7 invest in quality versions of the reusable supplies while spending a little more on quality will not save you money immediately it will in the long run if you know that you are going to be splitting students up into groups often invest in some high quality totes so that you have supply boxes ready and able to go since scissors are used constantly invest in higher quality brands so that they hold up to the constant wear and tear of 100 students using them in one day of course still look for these to be on sale i just got very high quality 7 inch scissors on sale for 1 apiece that were regularly 7 each but be willing to pay a little more for the things that are non consumable i would love to hear your money saving tips please share them below posted by secondarymathshop at 7 23 2016 11 56 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels making changes new school year organization saving money monday july 18 2016 interactive notebooks the perfect combination of lecture and handout notes lecture notes stand and deliver in many minds guided fill in the blank notes spoon feeding in other minds neither one is better or worse than the other instead they are structured to meet your students at the place that they are at the reality is though that in a class of 28 35 no one is at the same place so how do you meet them where they are at while retaining the flow of the class this is a struggle that i have had for the better part of 20 years through a 7 period day 6 period day trimesters semesters block and probably more that i cannot remember in addition we have tried to be more green and paperless in my district as well which further adds to the struggle when you are trying to not make multi page handouts that will just be hopefully recycled at the end of the semester so this year i am trying going to pilot something different in one of my classes interactive notebooks that i think will be the perfect marriage between the two methods i wanted to share with you why and how i m going to go about it cut and paste 1 interactive notebooks help students to stay organized helps them to reference back to old material one of my biggest frustrations is when students are trying to find something in a folder that is jam packed with old assignments notes handouts and 1 000 other pieces of paper while it is fantastic that they are keeping all of these things they serve no purpose if they can t find anything in them by using an interactive notebook students have all of their notes in order and can actually find them when they need them some teachers also have students number the pages and keep a table of contents which makes so much sense so that they know exactly where the material is this is a fantastic thing especially at the secondary level when material spirals and keeps building upon each other although i did not use inb this year i had a couple of my honor s students free bring out their inb from the previous year yes they kept them to look up previous ideas 2 interactive notebooks help to hold students accountable for and engage them in their own learning with many of guided notes i find that a few of my students literally only fill in the blanks and don t write anything else down while this is by far a slim percentage of my students as a teacher i want to reach them all i asked my students why this was and the common response was that they don t know how to take notes and that they write slow especially if the blanks are words that they are not familiar with inbs allow teachers to go more in depth and help students to focus in on small pieces of information which leads to students writing more down students also seem to feel more ownership because they can annotate easier and add things around the page angles of elevation and depression 3 interactive notebooks should save paper resources and time since the interactive notebook pages are smaller and many less pages than traditional notes it should save on both paper and copy machine resources most inb pages can be printed two to a page or are tabs that you can paste into the regular notebook and write under both of which will save on paper fewer copies means less time at the copy machine which means more time for everything else additionally since inb pages tend to be shorter it will be easier to go over them more in depth with absent students instead of having to wait for them to copy down multiple pages of notes from other students first instead you can create an interactive notebook of your own that can act as a key this way absent students can just borrow yours to fill in theirs and you can copy just one or two pages of your notebook if you need to send something home instead of multiple pages similar triangles cut and paste 4 interactive notebooks meet students where they are at interactive notebooks allow students to pick their pace if they need more examples they can write them on the notebook page around the inb paste in or if they want to explain how different ideas tie together they can write the page number of the related page on the inb page and have quick reference additionally for those students who have accommodations inb pages are easily differentiated to meet their needs i have even found that when surveyed my honor s level kids liked the idea they stated that sometimes it is nice to have the diagrams done so that they can go further and explore the ideas more in depth instead of getting bogged down with drawing everything congruent triangles cut and paste i am going to try out interactive notebooks in one or two of my classes for the first couple weeks of school and do traditional guided notes in my other after a couple of weeks i will let my students chose which one they like better i suspect it is going to the interactive notebooks i ll keep you posted click here to get my interactive notebook pages on angles formed by parallel lines for free i would love to hear how you use interactive notebooks in your classes please share below posted by secondarymathshop at 7 18 2016 12 04 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cut and paste differentiate engagement interactive notebooks making changes wednesday june 8 2016 activities to encourage collaboration 1 surface area and volume of a sand castle in a time and society where students spend more time communication through text messages facebook twitter instagram and 14 other social media platforms that i cannot even begin to name i find an ever increasing need to get my students talking to each other fact to face as a result i have been on a quest this year to implement as many collaborative activities as i can i have used many of them throughout this school year and have had some amazing results that include increased communication retention of information assessments grades and more positive attitudes overall throughout the summer i will be sharing some of my favorites some of my other favorite math teacher authors and many others so that hopefully they can become your favorites too today i am excited to share with you my surface area and volume of a sand castle activity as we were finishing our three dimensional figures unit in geometry i was looking for a really good way to a get the students talking and b show them how the different figures can share dimensions to build the structures that we see on a daily basis since i do not possess architectural skills and summer is upon us i decided to build a sand castle as do you want to build a snowman is running through my head i started with a goal of including as many of the main solids that i could and managed to include prisms cylinders cones pyramids and even a hemisphere i worked to have the solids share bases sides and dimensions whenever possible this is what i came up with i also came up with a second version that has the figure divided into 11 smaller figures to help struggling students visualize a path to follow to solve it additionally this helps students to organize their work so that you and they can identify an error if they make one i did not however hand this out to begin with as i wanted to see what they would do with it first before implementing this as partner group collaboration piece i sat down and created a list of questions that i could ask as i walked around the room to point students in the right direction get them thinking communicating and solving without actually giving them the answer some of the questions that i came up with 1 are there any surfaces that aren t exposed alternatively are there any surfaces that shouldn t be used in surface area 2 have you thought about breaking any of the larger figures into smaller ones 3 how are you arranging your work so that you can go back and check it later 4 are there any dimensions that you don t have how can you find them 5 do the unused surfaces from the surface area get used for volume free finally the day arrived to implement this and i must say it went amazingly after my students got over the expected moans and groans and sat down to start working on it they had fun with it i heard great discussion collaboration and genuinely helping each other understand instead of just giving each other the answer i set forth the rule that their final answers had to be within ten of mine to account for rounding error and that whoever was the closest won a prize extra credit candy excusing of an assignment ect my students quickly turned it into a competition and worked hard to earn the prize i ended up with multiple students hitting my answer down to almost the decimal point which is great based on the feedback i can honestly say that they enjoyed it and felt that it really reinforced the concepts we have been learning in this unit i have put the entire activity including a multi page answer key that highlights each piece and how to find their surface area and volume up in my teacherspayteachers store you can pick it for free here i would love to hear how you use it and implement it please comment below posted by secondarymathshop at 6 08 2016 07 22 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels collaboration engagement fun new resources friday april 8 2016 math misconception the final answer is the only part that matters for the longest time i really thought that getting the right answer was the goal and really the only thing that mattered this misconception stuck with me all the way through elementary middle and high school and was really not challenged until college through my k 12 experience i showed my work because i could not do the math without it however there was no reward for it there was not partial credit it was all about the correct answer as a struggling math student to the point where i actually started looking into careers that did not involve math this really frustrated me because i was often unable to find the correct answer especially in geometry when writing proofs ugh it was not until i took college algebra my freshman year of college that the work behind the problem became just as important if not more so than the correct answer it was also at that point that math clicked the emphasis on showing my work helped me to the understand make connections and to truly appreciate the beauty of mathematics moreover it also cemented my career path to become a high school math teacher who knew now as a teacher here is what i explain emphasize and illustrate to my students about why the final answer is not always the best answer to the problem 1 showing your work helps you to understand the why the answer is 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