Sunday, March 4, 2018

Monomials

This week, my young scholars learned to:

  • multiply monomials
  • divide monomials
  • simplify monomials with negative exponents
It was a productive week. Friday culminated with a wholesome individual whiteboard review followed by a card puzzle game that I found simply delightful.

Why is that as soon as you put a whiteboard and Expo marker within a 4 foot radius of any given student, they are immediately drawn to it and NEED to record all of their thought and feelings IMMEDIATELY on said board? Not sure! 

I was very proud of the puzzle game I created. Then I realized one of my answers was wrong. THEN it became a game to see who else could find the mistake.* What fun!


*See Mathematical Pratice #3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
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