Don’t you just love it when things come together? That’s how I feel about transformations and congruent triangle proofs. They were made for each other. I love to follow up our transformations unit with our triangles unit. In this unit,…
Transformations Unit: Geometry Interactive Notebook
After studying the basics of geometry and its basic relationships among lines and angles, we move on to our transformations unit. Specifically, congruence transformations. We will not learn about dilations until we reach our similarity unit. This unit has one…
How to Use Digital Stickers for Google Classroom
While making the switch to distance learning, we’ve adapted just about every aspect of how we teach to fit our new teaching platforms. But you know what has been the most difficult adjustment? Grading. Now don’t get me wrong, I…
How to Use a Digital Interactive Notebook
If you’ve visited my website before, you may notice that I have a slight obsession with interactive notebooks. While interactive notebooks are not for every teacher or every student, they solve so many problems for me that I cannot live…
Save Time with Math Symbols Keyboard Shortcuts
As a math teacher, do you find that inserting equations and symbols is frequently slowing you down? Making worksheets, notes, activities, and assessments takes longer because we are frequently moving our hands from the keyboard to the mouse and back…
Google Sheets Lesson Plan Template
Previously, I shared a post about how I use a Google Docs template to plan my lessons one week at a time. Spoiler Alert: This year I switched to a Google Sheets Lesson Plan Template! I still love the Google…
Teacher To-Do List Methods to Boost Productivity
Who doesn’t love a good to-do list? This may sound weird, but I don’t always stick to the same to-do list. I like to bounce around from one method to another. As one to-do list method becomes stale, I switch…
Templates to Streamline Your Back to School Prep
Let’s just be honest. Back to school is the busiest, sometimes most stressful, time of year. We have so much to prepare and plan before our new students arrive to learn, but don’t worry. I’m sharing some quick, and easy…
Classroom Organization in High School
If you don’t already know, I love talking all things organization, especially teacher and classroom organization. Much of what I’ve accomplished as a teacher is due (at least in part) to my organizational skills. Continue reading for my favorite classroom…
Geometry Interactive Notebook: Coordinate Geometry Unit
You may have heard me say this before, but this is one of my favorite units. I love teaching proofs with a numerical application. It makes a lot more sense to students than the usual proofs that are all letters…
3 Low-Prep Geometry Projects for Distance Learning
As our unusual school year comes to an end, we are left wondering, how do we wrap up the year online? Usually the end of the year means projects to summarize a year’s worth of learning. So, how can we…
Google Forms Tutorial
Setting Up Google Forms to Assess Student Learning In what skill have you suddenly become proficient since becoming an online teacher? There are so many things that weeks ago I had limited experience with (if any at all): Google Classroom,…
