Math is funny

I'm so excited I found this and I'm teaching about the normal distribution in the first unit.  I do love math humor.

I however, do not enjoy moving.  The movers are coming on Monday.  I'm so tired of packing.  I also have a lot of school stuff left in the house, which I was going to put into my car to bring to school on Monday (I work 45 minutes from home, so it's not a quick gaunt).  But my car is pretty full already.  And the bookshelf in my classroom is full of books from the previous teacher from classes I'm not teaching.  Hopefully someone will take them!

At my interview, I asked if they had document cameras.  They said that only the English dept had them, because they asked for them.  I hope it's okay for me to ask for it, even though I'm just starting.  I keep wracking my brain of a good way to do INB and foldables with my students without one, and it seems like a hassle.  I was thinking I could take a picture of it blank closed, and then open, and I could just write on it on the smartboard.  But I was told the smartboards are so old that they don't really work anymore.  I think a $70 fix is easier than a $2000 fix.

Statistics

The first unit in Advanced Algebra is a statistics unit. It's the first year of implementation at our school, so I don't want to get too far into it before speaking with the other teachers. We have 10 hours of planning together next week, and I'm looking forward to meeting everyone.

 I have been looking for tasks to use in all my classes. I'm just not that impressed with the books. I want to use a few tasks that Georgia has given. I definitely want to do the Color of Skittles task.  It's amazing what kids will do for candy.  I also want to use a lot of things from Illustrative Mathematics and Math Shell.  I feel like IM uses too much paper when I print it out with their pdfs.  I am so used to only getting a box of paper for a semester, that I try to be very stingy.

I also did the first two foldables.  I just finished creating them in Word.  But I don't have a working printer, so hope they look good once I print.  I made one with the steps for finding standard deviation.  Problems a little much, but when I get in the mood, I just keep going.  I then did one for the normal distribution.  I tried finding one online I could use, and I could only find one, but there didn't seem to be an easily accessible template, so I started from scratch.  I'm not going to really start putting together an INB for this class until next week.

Handmade...hope the electronic one looks better!

I finished my foldables (and most of the INB) for unit 1 in Coordinate Algebra.  Most of that was stolen from other awesome people who post their stuff online.  Can I say how much I don't like TpT?  I don't know...maybe someone one day will convince me it's awesome, but I feel like I'm on the same team as everyone else, and I want to share for free and I'd hope other people would want to too.

About the only thing I got done when I went into school one day last week.

I have no idea if I did these right, so I might be embarrassed if I shared incorrectly.