math and stuff
New standards means new plans. Except I’ve only just moved to Oklahoma, so I’m teaching Algebra 2 for the first time anyway. Good timing, I guess?
Anyway, I’ll be using SBG this year. Here you’ll find my complete list of units, containing the relevant OK math standards and ‘Critical Gaps’, along with my SBG skills lists.
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I’ve already shared my Geometry units and SBG skills list for this year.
I’ll be teaching Geometry for the first time this year. Actually, everything is for the first time this year, as I’ve never taught discrete high school math subjects before*. It feels like I’m starting from scratch with my planning.
I’ve already posted my list of Geometry units and skills, mapped to the new math standards that Oklahoma is introducing. (I’ve done my Algebra 2 units too. I really need to get around to posting those.) Recently, I’ve been working on filling out a bit more of the details of what I’ll be teaching. I don’t plan on making too much use of the textbook, but I still want a list of the definitions, postulates and theorems written out. So, that meant making the list myself.
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To be clear, this is not a document I’m giving to my students. This is for me, to make sure that my students are getting all the background knowledge they need as we progress through the course. There are still the day-to-day decisions about how I’m going to introduce these concepts in class, and how we will take INB notes each definition and theorem. I am very keen, though, to have students proven many, if not most, of these theorems themselves.
I’m considering this a first draft. I tried my hardest to make sure that everything that needs to be there is, but I’m not guaranteeing it. I would love feedback about anything, whether something could be worded a little more clearly, or there’s a giant hole of content that I’ve missed completely. I know I’ll be revising this document throughout the year.
* You could read this post and change every ‘UK’ or ‘Britain’ to ‘Australia’ and get a pretty good idea of what I’m used to.
You may have seen Sarah’s recent post about making posters of perfect square and cube numbers. She was talking to me about how she would go making the cubes. I thought about it for a bit, and thought there must be some way to do it in Geogebra. Turns out, there is!
Drag that slider, and you can change the number of cubes from 1³ to 20³.
This took a little bit of messing around to get right, mostly because I’ve never used the spreadsheet view in Geogebra before. Once I worked out that spreadsheet cells can contain graphical elements that get displayed, it was just a matter of plugging in the right formulas to generate all the lines.
Anyway, if you’d find this useful, you can download the file here:
Firstly, my recent exciting news that I don’t think I’ve blogged about yet:
The result of all that is that I’m teaching Geometry and Algebra 2 next year, and I have an empty classroom with no posters. Well, had an empty classroom. I’m working on that. 🙂
Here’s my set of Geometry Symbols posters. Sorry about the glare. I’ve never taught “Geometry” as a single subject before. In Australia, maths is still integrated through high school, so there’s just a little bit of geometry each year. So I found it very useful going through the units I have planned, figuring out what specialized symbols students will need to learn to take Geometry as a class. And putting them onto posters helps add a bit more color to my room.
Downloads are here:
Font is Arvo.
