Note: I am participating in a blogging challenge for the month of August. Learn about how you can participate here. Send me a tweet and let me know if you are participating! My last blog post was about giving more thanks in forms of writing a card. I loved how many people contacted me and shared their ideas about how they give thanks to others. I love when someone takes something I posted about and gives me several more great ideas. With everything others shared, it has inspired me to find ways to praise students more often for things they are doing in the classroom. I learned about a co ..read more

Note: I am participating in a blogging challenge. Learn about how you can participate here. Send me a tweet and let me know if you are participating! How is it August already?!?! Once this month hits everything gets real and joining this mtbosblaugust will be just the thing I need to get back into the swing of things. (My goal is to blog at least twice a week…hopefully more!) I am slowly going through stuff from last year to prepare. As I was going through I found some thank-you cards from students as seen here These are always so amazing to receive and their is something about getting ..read more

TMC 18 has come and gone. I have had some time to reflect about what I learned and how it went. This was my second year at TMC and I am not sure how but it was even better than my first in Atlanta. After getting off the plane that had no working lavatory (thank goodness for teacher bladders), I was worried that would be a sign of an awful trip. I immediately ran into a bunch of people. At the hotel, I ran into another group and we all ventured for dinner. I was impressed to see so many, that I met last year, and it was like we never lost touch. As someone who considers themself introverted and ..read more

What this is: I am going to highlight problems I used with my honors geometry students that I thought were valuable. You can see all posts in this series here. I am taking no claim that these are necessarily original as I might have stolen them from many of you reading this! How I used it: This was a review problem I gave in class. What is it: This was a problem to practice and review proof skills. Why I like it: This involves a few different ideas such as auxiliary segments and you can prove a couple different pairs of triangles. Their is also a couple different ways (as well as ways th ..read more

What this is: I am going to highlight problems I used with my honors geometry students that I thought were valuable. You can see all posts in this series here. I am taking no claim that these are necessarily original as I might have stolen them from many of you reading this! How I used it: This was a problem on a quiz I gave. What is it: This was how I tested to see if my kids could prove triangles congruent using more than one pair in your proof. Why I like it: There are so many different ways to solve this problem so it made it quite interesting. Some saw other different pairs of trian ..read more

What this is: I am going to highlight problems I used with my honors geometry students that I thought were valuable. You can see all posts in this series here. I am taking no claim that these are necessarily original as I might have stolen them from many of you reading this! How I used it: I gave this after students finished a quiz to play with before we got back together as a class. What is it: This was the very first dive into proving a pair of triangles congruent and then using them to prove another pair congruent. Why I like it: The kiddos were able to complete this without anything ..read more

What this is: I am going to highlight problems I used with my honors geometry students that I thought were valuable. You can see all posts in this series here. I am taking no claim that these are necessarily original as I might have stolen them from many of you reading this! How I used it: This was an exit slip I gave to the learners before they class one day. What is it: This is checking to see how they are doing with triangle congruency proofs and whether or not they can match up the corresponding parts. Why I like it: I had so many kids get #2 wrong. They either marked sides congruent ..read more

What this is: I am going to highlight problems I used with my honors geometry students that I thought were valuable. You can see all posts in this series here. I am taking no claim that these are necessarily original as I might have stolen them from many of you reading this! How I used it: This was a problem I gave to students to work after we had practiced how to prove triangles congruent. What is it: This is the first time kids see a proof that will involve auxiliary segments. Why I like it: The goal is to tell them nothing! You let them sit there and try to figure something out. Event ..read more

What this is: I am going to highlight problems I used with my honors geometry students that I thought were valuable. You can see all posts in this series here. I am taking no claim that these are necessarily original as I might have stolen them from many of you reading this! How I used it: This was a problem my kids worked on during a review activity in class. What is it: This focuses on using compositions and checking the order of transformations. Why I like it: We were able to talk about whether or not something was an isometry and it came out naturally in this problem. It was also gre ..read more

What this is: I am going to highlight problems I used with my honors geometry students that I thought were valuable. You can see all posts in this series here. I am taking no claim that these are necessarily original as I might have stolen them from many of you reading this! How I used it: This was a homework problem as we worked on transformations. What is it: A problem that focuses on finding the equation of the line that can be used to obtain the pre-image and the image. Why I like it: I have always given problems similar to this in the past and asking for the equation of the line. Fo ..read more