#TMC14 My Favorites

My Favorites is a session where teachers share their favorite things in 5-10 minutes.

Rebekah Peterson @RebeckaMozdeh

• Friday Letters- warm-up as usual or write me a Friday letter (decorate a mailbox); respond to every letter; opens up lines of communication for quieter students
• Mathematician Spotlight- one per unit, corresponds to unit; students post biographical information; restate a quote, defend their position on the quote, find three bits of interesting information

Sara Martin @Sarah3Martin

• Window Math- weekly problems written on window; bigger prize for less correct answers, smaller prize for more correct answers 'cheaters'

John Mahlstedt @jdmahlstedt

• Write the date as a math problem
• Tell your students how awesome you are- literally! Answer questions about yourself. Fill in the blank notes to match. :) Bonus Questionssss

Christine Sullivan @mathiechris

• Planbook.edu
• Online plan book allows you to attach standards, links, activities, worksheet, etc
• End of year, comparing standardized test results to attached standards allows you to identify gaps and weaknesses

Bob Lochel @bobloch

• Meaningful Adjacencies Icebreaker- 5 favorite tv shows; order your cards so you are closest to the most people who share matches; maximize solutions; 3 minute video

Glenn Waddell @gwaddellnvhs

• Turn a styrofoam cup upside down and slit the top. Use an old smartphone to place inside  and record your teaching.

Justin Lanier @j_lanier

• Favorite blogger- John Holt from1968; 5th grade teacher in Colorado; wrote books of daily
  
• reflections, "How Children Learn" and "How Children Fail"; helped start homeschooling and unschooling movement;
• Three lessons: 1. Look around. 2. Teach (and admit the) crazy. 3. Trust children.

Michael Pershan @mpershan

• Global Math Department
• Newsletter sent out three times a week

Jenn Crase @fibanachos

• Part to Whole relationship
• Factor Product relationship
• Using visual models to understand equations
• Middle school level

Pam Wilson @pamjwilson

• Chalk Talk- everything is written instead of spoken
• Students have to process in a different way
• Students can write with highlighters in the dark with black lights
• Ghosts in the graveyard
• Plickers- app where students hold up QR codes and teachers take a picture and the app records the responses. Excitation!

Max Ray  @maxmathforum

• Grant with EnCOMPASS
• Aug 5-8 hybrid face-to-face online institute
• Software that collects student work and analyzes and categorizes parts

Heather Kohn @heather_kohn

• Partner Reading for Comprehension-partner 1 reads aloud; partner 1 questions/comments; partner 2 clarifies
• Cut and Grow- take a student writing sample and they choose one sentence to edit; cut out the part that is wrong and rewrite

Andrew @froynboy

• Animal rubric 
• Seating chart arranged in 90s hip-hop groups
• Character picture on desk
• Project is researching their character and presenting
• Play parts of song to call on groups
• Highest grade wins the unicorn award
• Video game themed tests

Cindy Johnson @johnsonmath

• Conic cards!
• Sorting!

Meg Craig @mathymeg07

• Equation Editor 3.1 prints and copies better
• Make shortcuts for symbols
• Create your own autocorrect for common fractions, radicals, etc
• Link goo.gl/TKlAz6

Sebastian Spear @Sebastian_S

• 99-card game; any number of players; center deck; avoid being the player that pushes the center deck over 99; no winners, one loser; cards add value to center deck
• Zilch-red negative, black positive; your hand must add up to 0; start with four cards and students make pairs; then change to five cards

Anthony Rossetti @aanthonya

• Stats Mafia-http://statsmafia.weebly.com 
• Abs Value Blackjack- red cards are negative; can win with positive or negative 21
• Moneyball Webquest Http://rosettimath.weebly.com/webquest.html

Jasmine Walker @jazmath

• Tabletop Twitter-posters; each student has a market; answer question; respond to people with @, and create your own hashtags
• Quadrilateral Dating Game-speed dating structure; "meet" quadrilaterals and record traits

Hannah

• Cell phone problem solution- warning on the first day; get out an envelope and put phone in it until the end if the day; if they refuse, sign a card saying they accept the consequences

Bob @bobloch

• Favorite movie genre correlation regression

Shelli @druinok

• StatKey; app that can convert between data displays, etc

Kathryn Belmonte @iisanumber

• Students true colors personality survey; 15 minutes; four categories; rank groups of adjectives to determine color

Dylan Kane @math8_teacher

• Five triangles problem; want students to have mathematical insights over being able to do a lot of steps

Glenn Waddell @gwaddellnvhs

• Buy your own domain-powerful way to represent yourself as a professional in a public space
• Lunar pages donates free domain

Julie @jreulbach

• Laminate plicker QR codes and attach to interactive notebooks
• hinge questions where each multiple choice answer maps to a specific misunderstanding for differentiation

Sam @samjshah

• Math journal-reactions and responses, artistic creations, student work, etc
• Launch Party
• Check it out: http://packerintersections.wordpress.com/

John  @Jstevens009

• Would you rather...math? Link
• Needs help with new ideas
• Goal of 100