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Old School Meets New School

Old School Meets New School. Blaire Miller Maiden Middle School Catawba County Schools. Maiden Middle School. Serve 480 7 th and 8 th graders 4 Academic Teams Smallest middle school in CCS

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Old School Meets New School

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  1. Old School Meets New School Blaire Miller Maiden Middle School Catawba County Schools

  2. Maiden Middle School • Serve 480 7th and 8th graders • 4 Academic Teams • Smallest middle school in CCS • Offer the most courses of all CCS Middle Schools thanks to Encore teachers who teach multiple subjects AND numerous online learning opportunities • Located in Western NC along the HWY 321 corridor – North of Gastonia and South of Hickory

  3. Chalk Dust…No Not Us • Interwrite School Pads in every classroom • Projectors in all classrooms • School set of Ipods; GPS units; Net books; Laptops and we’ve begun building a Ipad set • 2 Academic Computer Labs • In math classrooms, class sets of TI 73 calculators for 7th grade and TI 81/83 for 8th grade

  4. Class Structure • Warm Up (Use DPI Essentials Questions) • Check Homework (15 minutes given nightly) • New Material Shared • Practice New Material • Ticket out the Door (overt response to instruction)

  5. Learning Centered School • We are all being trained on “the Big 6” • OVERT RESPONSES expected daily These include White Board Use Thumbs Up Fist to Five Ticket out the Door • We are expected to constantly access our students’ understanding and readjust our instruction based on their responses

  6. Our Catch • With middle schoolers, you must have a catch • For me – it’s saying “MATH IS” and students reply “AWESOME” • Or, I say math terms in odd ways like MuliPLIcative Inverse (it’s amazing how stressing a syllable in a different way peeks their curiosity

  7. Anacronyms • In text filled society, special pneumonic devices are helpful for our students • P • E • M • D • A • S • Parentheses  • Exponents  • Multiplication or Division (whichever occurs 1st left to right)  • Addition or Subtraction (whichever occurs 1st left to right)

  8. Multiplying Integers Song(tune–If you’re happy and you know it) • A positive times a positive is a positive • (Clap, clap) • A negative times a negative is a positive • (Clap, Clap) • A positive times a negative, • A negative times a positive • Is equal to a negative every time. • (Boom, Boom, Boom)

  9. Mrs. Smith’s Circle Song • Take your finger round a jar • Circumference equals 2 pi r • For area, you multiply r squared by the number pi • Twinkle, twinkle you’re a star • Learning math will take you far.

  10. SMILEY FACE • Surface Area formula for Rectangular Prism • 6 cm x 9 cm x 12 cm • 6*9 = 54 54 • 54 • 9*12 = 108 108 • 108 • 6 * 12 = 72 72 • 72 • 468 cm sq

  11. Keep Math Activities Relevant • Finish Scale Drawing Instruction – ask students to design their DREAM Bedroom • After One step and Two Step Equations - ask students to create board games that incorporate equation solving • Take a trip – with maps and rules, ask students to convert measured to actual distances

  12. On Line Challenges • Purple Comet • National Math Day

  13. Assessments • Class Scape – Monitor student progress throughout the year (not just at EOG end of year REVIEW time) • County mandated LDP (given quarterly) • Math Fax – access our top level classes computation skills quarterly

  14. New School • http://www.catawbaschools.net/schools/MaidenMiddle/staff/Blaire_Miller/default.aspx • Screen shot lessons • Calendar • Homework • Class Document • Pictures

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