Metacognition

Today was all about thinking about our thinking...a habit of mind that helps us "move our thinking"....which is our classroom goal!

Math Goals

Goals give us something to work towards.

The quote, "If we don't have high expectations, we have nothing to aim for" hangs from my east wall.  

I am a firm believer in setting goals.

So....today's learning target was all about setting two or more math goals for the six weeks, semester or year.  

What's Your Angle?

Eighth grade students have been super busy analyzing angle relationships in geometric and real life problems.  

Good questions to ask them...

What's the difference between complementary and supplementary angles?

Describe in your own words what vertical angles are.

Draw a picture to explain the relationship between corresponding angles?

All of these angle relationships were discovered from our very first miniature golf problem!  We've just taken a side trip to hone in on our angle skills so we can find missing angle measurements without the aid of a protractor!

Miniature Golf

Can it really be that we have been in school over a week?

Wow!

And this is only my first blog entry.  

Life in the math classroom has been crazy!

We started the week analyzing where to hit a golf ball to get a hole in one.

Students found the exact spot on the edge of a miniature golf course using their prior knowledge of angles.

In the middle of the week we pre-tested to give the students a glance of what we'll be learning and to give me a look at their math abilities.

Today we returned to the golf problem and started to dig deeper into angles.  Please check out the math and algebra assignment tabs at the top to see our learning targets for each day and homework assignments.

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Thank you!!!

Welcome to 8th Grade Math!

Are you ready?

I am!

Are you excited?

I am!

This is going to be a GREAT year!
We are going to learn some AwEsOmE things in math!

We are going to MOVE our Thinking...

We will have the math practices to help us...

And the FISH Philosophy will guide our actions as we strive for success.

This blog will be your source of information for all things math...

Assignments

What we're learning 

Common core resources

Looking forward to seeing you August 14th (or the 15th)!

Mrs. McCabe

How's Your Summer?

How's your summer going?
If it's anything like mine, it's going way too fast!

I've been busy working on our math lessons for next year.
So many new and exciting concepts to learn!

Enjoy the rest of your summer and we'll see you in August!