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Puzzling Holiday Fun

With the holiday break, I made countless lists about cleaning and organizing. I added lesson planning and making some fun…
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  • Boom Cards™️ are a great way for students to practice using percents to find the selling price of discounted items and assessing their understanding. This set of Boom Cards features 40 different Digital Self-Checking Task Cards. (No printing, cutting, laminating, or grading!)
  • Polynomials - Task CardsStudents will practice identifying, adding, subtracting and multiplying polynomials in this 32 card resource. Students will also rewrite in standard form. There are many fun ways to use task cards in the classroom and I have included several of my favorite ideas. Check out the preview to see the if the questions are appropriate for your students.
  • Great practice, worksheet alternative, formative assessment for students that you can HEAR if they are successful. No printing, no laminating. A Lifetime tool for the classroom.
  • Boom Cards™ are a great way for students to practice every day skills In this deck, students practice adding expenses from a budget, finding savings on budget choices and finding budgeted amounts. I use this in my teen finance course during the budgeting unit. This is great reinforcement of rounding and using percents. This set of Boom Cards features 35 different Digital Self-Checking Task Cards. (No printing, cutting, laminating, or grading!)#bluemountainmath #boomcards
  • I love using Geogebra in the classroom. Here are some of my favorite activities for Geometry. If you haven't tried Geogebra, get started. You can read more at the blog post.
  • Boom Cards™️ are a great way for students to finding gross pay by pay periods. This deck has 40 cards for students to practice finding Gross Pay in a variety of ways. For example: Mary makes $400 per week, how much does she make annually or Joe makes $2000 per month, how much does he make weekly. This will help reinforce vocabulary of Gross Pay, Bi-weekly, Bi-Monthly, Semi-monthly, Weeky, Annually and Weekly. This is part of a life skills/ personal finance/ comsumer math curriculum.
  • Here are a few ways to help students be more organized and connect with your lessons. Simple ideas like posting goals, sharing lessons on a calendar and using error analysis to help students improve logic skills.
  • Looking for some sponge activities to keep students working for a few minutes at the end of a lesson? Here are some of my favorite. Check out the latest blog post.
  • Boom Cards™ are a great way for students to practice every day skills In this deck, students practice finding combination and permutations. This set of Boom Cards features 35 different Digital Self-Checking Task Cards. (No printing, cutting, laminating, or grading!)

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