Person Search

Tomorrow my students are going to be participating in a search within our classroom to get to know each other. 


Directions:

• Give each person a copy of the person search handout. Get your copy here: https://themathmentors.mykajabi.com/p/ice-breakers
• Students will walk around and interview each other. They may ask a question such as, "how many siblings do you have?" It can't just be yes or no. If the answer matches a square, have that student initial it. If not, ask another question. 
• Repeat until the entire sheet is initialed. 

We can't flip like Simone Biles but...

Place your students into groups of 3 or 4. In their group, they are going to create an olympic type game that we can play in our classroom. Groups will start with their own game and collect the data. For example, if we are doing a standing jump from a line on the ground, we would have a sheet to record how far everyone jumped. 

This would be great for a statistics unit. We could graph each distribution, write comparison, discuss measures of center, standard deviation, etc. The possibilities are endless. Write a comment for how you could use this in your room.  Thank you for reading!



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Rich Tasks

When I meet my students for the very first time on Tuesday, they will be sitting in groups of 4 and I will have them work on their very first task.



I will launch it by having students generate what good/bad group work looks like. Then we will be launching into our very first group task. Want how I am doing it and a copy of my first task? Sign-up using the form below!

Not Your VFW Hall Bingo!!

This is a game that students of all ages will love! I've played it with high school freshmen and seniors. If you would like a video explaining step by step how to run this in class as well as a pdf with teacher/student directions and a copy of the activity I played with my algebra 1 class, complete the form below. 

Ahhh...school is right around the corner!!!

Icebreaker Activities:

The first week of school, I focus on building relationships with my new batch of students. I do one icebreaker activity every day.  My favorite one is 2 Truths and a Lie.  Which one is my lie? 

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Don't break the ice, wait we want to!

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Increase student engagement

How would you like to engage every student in your room?  How would you like to be able to create engaging lessons in only 10 minutes or less?

Sample Lesson: How do you increase engagement when teaching formulas?  Blow them up and give students equations to cut and place on top of the actual equation!