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Crash Debate Lesson Plan

Imagine that within 5 minutes of walking into your classroom, all of your students are engaged in an evidence-based debate. Sounds amazing, right? Not only will each student make a friend or two, but every person will know what level of self-direction and participation you expect every time they come to class. Crash...

Math Art Activities for Classroom Warm-up

For many students, math seems boring and tedious. It's all numbers and no visuals. Fortunately, you can completely flip that view of math upside-down. How? With warm-up math art activities. It wasn't that long ago that we used to post something for students to do as they entered the class. These...

Resources for Free Data Analysis Activities

Creating data analysis activities can be difficult and time-consuming. It's even harder to make data analysis activities that are fun and engaging. Many students struggle to see how numbers can actually be interesting. The good news? There are lots of free data analysis activities online that you can adapt for...

Fun Graphing Activity Without Any Prep Work

Are you looking for a fun, no-prep graphing activity? As you are gathering math activities for the coming school year, it always helps to have a few no-prep activities that you can fall back on. Or sometimes you just need a fun and easy assignment to break up the routine....

Looking for a database? Try PetFinder!

If you are teaching students about data analysis or practicing graphing and computation, think beyond the traditional databases used for your subject area to make the exercise more interesting. One of my favorite databases is Petfinder. What could be better for making a data table or a graph than a...
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