Blue Mountain Math

Making Math Fun with Engaging Activities

About Me

Hi, I’m Linda.  If you are like me, you dreamed of being a teacher.

You imagined…

  • helping children develop their talents
  • making a difference in the world
  • helping students achieve their dreams

But teacher dreams meet tough reality when you:

  • can’t find enough time in the day
  • have 30 students with 30 different levels of understanding and 30 different learning needs
  • struggle with bored students
  • are overwhelmed with finding resources and activities
  • have to constantly hear “when are we going to do something fun?”
  • know there has to be an answer and keep looking. . .

 

Well, I looked and I found a surprisingly simple answer:  we forget to have fun!

  • Are your pacing guides overpacked?
  • Do you feel pressure to cover content vs. teach?
  • Do you have state testing stress?
  • Do you find yourself saying “There has to be a better way” ?

With all of this, it seems like there is no time for fun.

But what if you could have the best of both worlds – learning + fun?

I’m here to help!

My teacher kind of fun is when students are learning, being hugely successful, are happy and tell me that they look forward to coming to my class every day.

It is my passion to create print and digital resources that help students to succeed through activities, games, and collaboration instead of the proverbial worksheets.

The result:  students learn and they are happy.  I’ve got to tell you, this makes me pretty excited to go to work every day.

 

I’m Linda and it’s my passion to be in the classroom teaching students and extend my classroom to yours by sharing successful strategies and lessons.

I never want to do anything else again. I’ve had that other job (wearing a suit in an office with people reporting to me), and I gave all that up in a heartbeat to be with teenagers. I have no ambitions to retire, be promoted, or be replaced because I am living my dream. And it doesn’t get any better than this!

I am proud to be a teacher leader and a teacher-learner.  I have spoken nationwide at conferences, I have led numerous professional development trainings, and have more college credits that I can ever count. I am constantly learning new strategies so I can be better at my passion and so my students will achieve their dreams. I embrace technology, scour books for teaching strategies, and survey fellow teachers for their struggles.  All because I want to be a better version of me.

 

If what I’m describing sounds like your dream come true, I’d love to partner with you!

I know you’ll stop by this blog often:

  • If you are looking to supplement your curriculum with proven resources that will make your students work hard but smile as they do it.
  • If you need a few tips along the way about the classroom, dealing with parents, time management, grading or organization.
  • If you are looking to add digital activities/google apps in the classroom but need a place to start.
  • If you want to learn more about the brain and learning.
  • If you just need to refresh your spirit and attitude and be uplifted as a teacher. I will be here for you.

You can view my resources at Teachers Pay Teachers

My Teachers Pay Teachers Store

Before school starts (for me it starts August) I will be posting some ideas and free offers, so stop by in July for that opportunity.

Fun Facts about me:

➽I was always a shy child and later a very introverted adult until I kissed the Blarney Stone.

➽I love STAR TREK and STAR WARS. I will not debate on which is better, I love them both.

➽ I am obsessed with crime shows and mystery books. I don’t know why…..

➽I am at the movies almost every weekend. Sometimes alone and sometimes with friends. That’s me in the middle of the front row.

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  • Practice finding perfect square roots in a fun new way. No PREP, NO PRINTING, NO LAMINATING. Just practice, feedback for students and auto grading for teachers. Great for differentiating and works well in centers, stations, as review or homework. Print
  • Boom Cards™️ are a great way for students to practice every day skills like using percents. You can assess their understanding and students can play again to keep improving. This set uses a variety of word problems using percent. This set of Boom Cards features 40 different Digital Self-Checking Task Cards. (No printing, cutting, laminating, or grading!)
  • Boom Cards: Digital Task Cards are great alternatives to those printed, laminated task cards. Infuse your class with technology. Students love these cards so much, they ask to use at home. Use in math centers, as individual learning or assign for additi
  • 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!)
  • Students practice using the distributive property, both in distributing and combining like terms, in these 2 puzzles in google slides. There are 2 puzzles--one in each simple level and challenging level. In the simpler level, the outside edges are blank, so if students are having difficulty, have them arrange the pieces so the blank sides are on the outside.
  • Sector Area in a Circle Paper Chain is a fun, engaging activity that is self-checking, collaborative. Set of 15 problems that need to be cut apart, reassembled in the correct order and fastened together like a chain until the end is reached. Great worksh
  • 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 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.
  • This is a twisted trivia game where students (either in groups or playing individually with white boards) practice identifying solutions and writing inequalities from graphs. Check out the video preview to see the type of questions included.

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