City Angles

Making learning angles fun with our city angles project..

While incorporating the math practices of perseverance and math models. 

Brains Grow and Change

So many of parents and students...and sometimes even teachers...hold the mindset that some can do math and some just can't.

This. Is. A. Myth.

It is NOT true.
Everyone can learn math!
Everyone's brain can grow and change.

Watch the video link below to hear from the expert, Jo Boaler, from Stanford University, that everyone needs to change this mindset.

https://vimeo.com/177320916?ref=em-share

Parent Letter

Dear Parents,

Happy Friday!  With two full weeks of school completed, we have accomplished a bunch!  Diagnostic pre-tests, setting up our ISNs (Interactive Student Notebooks), and learning the ropes of our classroom have all been checked off the to-do list.  This last week we dove into angles as we learn to identify types of angle relationships in order to find missing angle measurements.  Your student has a bit of practice to do over this three day weekend (pg. 137 & 138) if they did not finish it in class today. 

Schoology has been set up and our lessons and necessary handouts up to this point have been uploaded and ready to use.  Within Schoology is another resource, our online livebinder textbook, which is chalk full of helpful videos, math games, and how-to's to reference at home.  

My goal every year is to keep my classroom blog updated!  My hope this year is to continue farther into the year than I have in the past.  LOL!  Surely this year I will have more time! (fingers crossed)   :)  You can find our classroom blog at mccabesmathmoments.blogspot.com.

Just an FYI for next week Wednesday through Friday.  I will be attending the awards ceremony and professional development workshops in Washington DC.  My goal for my students is to continue to move their thinking so that I can see growth with their understanding of angles when I return.  We have had a great start with supplementary, complementary, vertical, corresponding, alternate interior and exterior angles!

I have loved getting to know your students these last few weeks.  I have seen positive attitudes and perseverance for solving problems...all necessary skills for being successful.  Students have willingly volunteered and shared their thinking and I have loved the times when their questions or justifications have pushed everyone's thinking...even mine!  

Looking forward to a great year! 

Mrs. McCabe

Justifying Our Thoughts

If there is one thing that I love to hear, it's students talking...about math!