Around, Around It Goes... Where It Stops, Nobody Knows!!!

This is a dice and spinner activity for Geometric Transformations.  It includes:
Translations
Rotations
Reflections

I'm including the editable copies as well as PDF in case you want to change or edit anything.  I found an activity online for inspiration but did not want dilations on mine as they are covered in a different unit.  Me, being me, of course had to create a new one to fit my students needs.

I have officially done it in class and made modifications as necessary so that I could share it with all of you!  

It was better than I expected only it did not take nearly as long as I thought.  Maybe half a class depending on ability.  

I printed two sets of dice on different colored card stock.  They are numbered so I made sure they received different dice to roll.  

I made 6 unique dice to use.  I never do anything easy if it can be multiple different versions 😋  Here are the first 2:

I laminated and constructed them myself prior to the lesson.  I used tape so I could undo them and easily store them.  Since I had to correct some of them, next year, I might just use large foam dice and tape the new corrected sides to them for ease as hand edited things drive me nuts!!!!??!?!?

I gave all kids a Smart Pal lamination sheet to put their transformation sheets in so they could do multiple without having to erase and get sloppy or torn.  I also made sure that the group or pairs had the same starting shape so they could compare answers.  I just monitored to make sure they were doing it and did not have them turn anything in.

Here are a couple of the 8 sheets I created.  2 unique shapes in each quadrant.

I gave each group 2 dice and a laminated spinner sheet. For the spinner sheet, I also gave each group a paperclip to 'spin'. I left all 3 together on the same sheet for ease and storage.  

I had each group start with rolling one dice and making the transformation.  I them let them decide to use the original or image to do the next roll (hello combinations without realizing they are.... my whole intention!).  After 6 or so one dice translations, I had them roll both dice and perform the combination transformations.  

Everyone seemed to enjoy the activity and do well.  The ability to use the dry erase was definitely the way to go as well.  I did differentiate and sometimes give particular shapes to particular groups.  I just wanted to be able to apply the rules and practice.  There are so many ways you can do it!  

I allowed them all to use their notes for the rules.  

As always, please let me know of any changes or recommendations! 

Download all resources in Word and PDF here for FREE!  

The font used for the titles is Austie Bost Envelopes and you may download it here for free in case you don't want to mess with formatting on the editable versions.

Enjoy,

Lisa

Transformations Mystery Pictures- Reflections!

Short post to share an activity and TPT find!

So I am not only teaching Math Models this year but also Geometry?!?!!?  There is an extensive Geometry Unit at the end of the Math Models Curriculum so here I go into a new curriculum.

Geometry was always my favorite subject in school, and while I loved doing it, it has been over 20 years since I have done it.  now I've got to teach it?  what, the what now?  It is not as easy as I remember, of course 20 years, a lot of things have happened.....

So now I get to re-learn Geometry and figure out how to teach it.  This has been awesome 😑....

One of the activities I used to practice rotations was this wonderful and well worth the $5 find on Teachers Pay Teachers.  It is by Nilcola Waddilove.

I loved the Rotations Picture and it was just what my students needed for a second day of practice with using the Rotation Rules.

I then decided that before I move on to my newly created Dice Activity, I wanted to make sure they had thorough practice.  While the above sheet did have 2 reflections practice, it did not have what I needed for reflection across y=x.  

So I googled first and found nothing matching what I wanted.  Me, being me, decided to create one!  I present to you my first Transformation Mystery Picture!!  It's not extensive and probably can be finished quickly but the image is SOOOOO MY CLASS!  

Download this activity in Word and PDF for FREE!  If you use word, the font I used for the title is Austie Bost Envelopes font and can be downloaded for FREE here.

Did another one to share!  

It is named AJ after the student who helped design it.  Download the Word and PDF for FREE!

Please let me know if you see any needed changes or have anything to share!

As always, Enjoy!

Lisa

Coordinate Point BINGO!

Quick post sharing my Coordinate Point BINGO!

Oh those pesky coordinates!  Why they gotta make slope and coordinates the opposite movements?  Let's simplify some lives Mr. Descartes!  So I always make my students label coordinates and slope with arrows as below:

As I started preparing my Geometry unit, I had the pleasure of relearning a lot of things.  I found the easiest way to do a lot of transformations was by just looking at points as oppose to whole shapes.  As a result, I decided to pull out and dust off my old Coordinate Bingo!

It names a point on the coordinate plane and you name it's location!  Simple enough except most are translations of points.  I thought this was perfect practice for our transformations!

This was created several years ago from the Ah-maz-ing template by Steve Mashburn.  I wrote more about it here.

You have 25 'calling cards' and 30 unique Bingo cards for the students.

Download the resources here for FREE!

I gave each student a fill page blank coordinate.  I used the STAAR Test one so they could get used to it!  I've included it here too.

I put these in my handy, dandy Smart Pals so they could write on them.  The Bingo Cards were laminated so they could write on them or use markers.  Great way to utilize those 2 color counters ;-)

I found it easier to project the calling card as well as reading it too.

This turned out to be great review and reinforcement prior to translations!

Enjoy!

Exponential vs. Linear Growth Project

Would you rather have $10000 a day or start with a quarter and have it double every day?  

This is the essence of this project for students.  I have done it in both Algebra 1 and Math Models.  I have the 4 most common coin denominations, penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.  Students are first supposed to pick a scenario and tell me why.  They then do the math!

I set it up for 21 days as we use TI-84 graphing calculators and I wanted them to be able to view the tables without dealing with Scientific Notation.  One of our state standards is to compare and identify exponential and linear functions which this project accomplishes.  

On the back of the sheet is a detailed Rubric as well.

We have used this as an activity and a major grade.  The rubric is required for the major grade in our school so you might not need it.

I also make them present the project in front of the class.  Here is my teacher rubric for the presentations.

This year, all students were complete with their math and graphs, ready to start their poster on the 2nd day.  I will have them present the 3rd day.

I also provided them a graph template and gave each group 2, one for each scenario.  This seemed to help as well make a more clean presentation.  

The right hand scenario is based on a Fermi question and they get that amount on the 21st day, therefore you do not add the prior day amount on either scenario.  It's really just to have them apply exponential and linear functions and compare.

This did come at the end of my Exponential Function Unit and they have already done regression in the calculator.

Both years, the students seemed to enjoy this and usually fed into the logic of it by choosing the first scenario.  You, of course, could edit and change the amounts to reflect what you want them to achieve. 

Download all resources here for FREE in Word and PDF.  In the Word version, I used my favorite font, Janda Curlygirl!  You can download it for free here.

Hope you and your students enjoy!

Thanks,
Lisa

Puzzle Pizzazz - Vol. Spanish

After my success with math Double Letter Puzzles, one of our Spanish Teachers wanted one, so I completed a few for her.  I have 2 Spanish food words in English and 2 Spanish words that I hoped the kids would be familiar with.  I do not teach or speak Spanish so I picked words I was also familiar with ;-).

How does a math teacher know this one?!?!  

I eat at a lot of Mexican food restaurants ;-)

I also did a blank Double Letters directions so you could fill it in for each puzzle.  

I then laminate them all and post them in the classroom on the board with magnets or the hallway with Velcro.  I make 2 copies as well so I can do both.  Below is a Velcro one in the hallway.

Download all the Spanish puzzles here for FREE!  I uploaded both Word and PDF.  The font used in Word was Cheri and you can download it here for FREE!

For those of you interested in the 'Mathy' terms ones, you can find them all on my previous blog post here for FREE.  I also have further explanation of the puzzles and how they work.

If you have any others, please share!

Thanks,
Lisa

whY Bingo

So, for the first time in like 7 years, I thought about this bingo game I had put together years ago.  I searched the recesses of my hard drive to come across it thinking it would be great for STAAR Camp.  STAAR is our state standardized test.  As I reviewed it to share with the team, I was thinking.... 'why haven't i used this in forever?!!?!  What a great review and spiraling activity!!!!'  I think, too often, I get excited about something new and forget there are incredible things already here for my students.  I'm also easily excitable about new activities that I often get carried away!

Sometime, over 10 years ago, I came across this incredible Bingo template created by Steve Mashburn in 2001.  It is Ah-maz-ing!!  It creates 25 unique Bingo Cards.

Here is a selection of the cards.  His mastery at work!  I admire people so much that can use Excel to this masterful degree.

Here is his original template.  I've looked extensively for where his original is posted and cannot find it.  There are, however, about a billion teachers who have used, referenced, and published it.  There are quite a few who have provided versions of it for you to use so try googling!  One great site that made several versions you can download for free is I Want to Teach Forever.  You can access their materials here.

So, all those years ago, I created one for Equations (mostly linear).  The essence of my teaching high school math is my students knowing and using y=mx+b.  Surprisingly, there can never be too much practicing, too much reviewing, or too much mastery in this skill.  So that is how I came up with whY Bingo.  It's all about that y.  I used questions that we saw repeatedly on testing and highly missed ones.  This was before our testing and TEKS change so some questions have moved down to intermediate school but are still relevant and necessary fundamentals.  **If you are a intermediate school teacher, be sure and check vocabulary as I know slope and y-intercept are not used in your instruction.**

Below is a close up view of a couple of my student bingo cards:

I used a Power Point as my 'calling cards' instead of strips as these are items that needed to be seen by the students and not just heard.  And some were super long!  These were very basic and just on white slides.  These were my early days of Power Pointing so please forgive. Here are some selected power point slides:

You may download the Power Point here.  I also saved it in PDF here.

The power point says they may fill in a blank Bingo but I've learned this can take an extensive amount of time and that is why I love the template that pre-prints them all mixed up for them.  

Of course, me being me, I did a 30 question Power Point for a 25 question template so I actually have 2 sets of bingo cards getting the extra 5 questions on the spaces.  You can download them in Excel or PDF here.  I have a laminated set of both and just mix them up.  you could also print so the students could work or take notes (and you won't have pinto beans all over your floor ;-))

I think this is excellent review, especially for STAAR or end of the year standardized tests!  Plus they get to play a game.  And why haven't I used it in fever?!?!!?  Ugh!!!  Already done and ready,  so that would have saved me time and as a teacher, we have so much extra time we just need more things to fill that empty void.

Hope you enjoy and please feel free to share or let me know if you see any needed corrections!

Thanks,

Lisa

Exponential FUNctions - Graphing

And today.... we graphed!  Below are the fabulous notes I received from my colleague, Mrs. Villarreal.  

I, of course, had to 'font' them up and fit them to my students needs with fill-in-the-blank and interactive notebook grid lines.

These are the finished ones.  I must place a disclaimer here: this is only the third time I have taught these.  In order to even learn them (as I had not done them in 20 years) I used these incredible resources I found on the internet by following along on this link.  Pretty sure I could not have done it as proficiently (or even 'ficiently') without these resources!  I wrote more about it on my earlier blog post here.

Download all the notes in both Word and PDF here for FREE!

I followed this up with another activity from Algebra Accents available on Teachers Pay Teachers:

$3 and it saved me about 4 hours of planning and manipulating!  Completely worth it!  The graphs were beautiful.  I know that a lot of blogs share free resources and that is generally what I do with mine.  I usually create activities that save me that $2 or $3 only to realize it takes hours sometimes away from my family.  This unit, I've used a lot of paid resources and as a result, I've been able to spend extra time at home and planning for my class.  Money well spent in my opinion.  Only took me 17 years of teaching to figure this out!  And this blog has helped me to appreciate the time that goes into creating activities like these! 

Another fabulous option that I completely forgot about until this writing was this one:

And the icing on the cake?  It's FREE on Teachers Pay Teachers.  Simply click the picture above to be taken to this incredible FREE resources from Lisa Tilmon!!!

In years prior, we used this note sheet for our 3rd day of Exponential Functions.  This was after graphing and regression lessons and assignments from this link. 

                             Download these in both Word and PDF here for FREE!


As always, please let me know if you have anything to add or see any needed corrections!

Thanks!
Lisa