Having a Blast in Math!

When I was in college, I wanted to major in elementary education which was part of a double major program at my school.  Because of softball (I was on scholarship) I couldn't do that so I only majored in psychology.  When I told my mom this, she said I had to minor in something or I wouldn't graduate.  Thinking that my mother wouldn't lie to me about this, I minored in math.

Fast forward all these years and I still love math!  This year our district is "trying out" Engage NY for math and it's been rough at times, but there are some things that I really like.  One thing I don't is the lack of small group, differentiation in the program, so I've been doing a lot of supplementing.

One of the ways that I do this is with roam the room task cards.  All I do is put a variety of task cards around the room.  For this activity I had 2 different sets, that were working on variables and equations.  Based on what my kiddos needed, they either did the purple or blue cards.

Here they are hard at work:

This set was from my Evaluating Equations Task Cards set which includes 3 different sets of cards.

Another thing we've been up to is adding flip books to our interactive notebooks.  Here are 2 of our most recent ones:

 

 

Both of these are available in my store by clicking on any of the pictures above.  What fun have you been having in math?