Churchill Math Training Videos

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Backwards Lesson Design Review

Engaging with Essential Questions (click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker (this note-taker is for this video and the assessment video), can you template

Engaging with Assessments (click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: math content rubric

Lesson plan template

 

7th/8th Grade

Video: Statistics (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video:  Note-taker, Bore the Board, Census_question_reading graphs, central angles, circle graphs, data collection, graphic organizer - basic graphs, jelly blubber 1, jelly blubber 2, math journals, misleading graphs, Presidential data 1, problem solve with prez data, old faithful data, old faithful lesson plan, old faithful slides, shift 6 data, study design census word sort, study design graphic organizer, study design homework, study design thick and thin examples, super bowl graphs, ted talk about stats, whats my grade.

Video:  Rational Numbers (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video:  Note-taker, decimal grids, equal or not equal, fraction operations revised powerpoint, fraction operations using lattice, fraction word problems

Video: Proportions (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video:  Note-taker, Is this relationship proportional, mini-poster percents, mini-poster proportions, now and then powerpoint, percents matrix, proportion problems, sorting rectangles, metric and customary conversion table, unit card sort notes, unit contract, unit cooking activity, unit project, unit conversion lesson, how big is Hagrid, proportion problems paper, read write reflect organizer, solving graphic organizer

Video: Similarity (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, dilations, how tall is it, links to scale models, similar figures stations, unit rates and squares

Video: Probability (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, finding probability, intro counting problems, cartoon true false tests, probability notes, probability problems, visuals, whats in the bag

Video: Solve equations and inequalities (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video:  Note-taker, algebra tiles EQ poster, algebra tiles notemaker page 1, notemaker page 2, algebra tiles template, goal sheet background, mathematical feud, real world problems, round robin solutions, solve equations with balance 1, solve equations with balance 2, solve for unknown angles, solve inequalities, solve equations simile, solve equations important book, solving word problems, table, equation, situation extention, tile patterns

Video: Circles (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, area and perimeter 1, area and perimeter 2, area with circles, cast away calculations, home decorating recording sheet, house plans, reflection page

Video: Surface Area and Volume (click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, block counting, hay bale housing, honeycomb questions, If I ran the Zoo, If I ran the Zoo rubric, Nets, Packaging project, polyhedron project, SA and volume problems, sculpture dilemma

Video: Graphing Two Variables (click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, Big Race Graph Paper, Big Race Graphed, Big Race, centers, connecting ideas notemaker, etch a sketch, instructions for money matters, money matters

Algebra

Video: Algebra Tiles Part 1 (click here to view video) Documents accompanying video:  Algebra Tiles Template,

      Teacher Note-taker, Essential understanding poster part A, Algebra tiered warmup, brainstorm page, matrix - adding subtracting integers, target note-taker with quiz, the story of integer continent, essential understanding poster part B, student note-taker 2

Video: Algebra Tiles Part 2 (click here to view video) Documents accompanying video:  Algebra Tiles Template

      Teacher Note-taker, Solving Multi-step Equations:  algebra tiles evaluate student work, algebra tiles EU part 2 poster, solve multi-step problems EU, Solving equations with Algebra tiles, solving multi-step equations

       Distributive Property:  Distributive property EU for students, distributive property EU poster, intro distributive proper with tiles

        Square Roots:  Square roots EU for students, square roots EU poster, Square root graphic organizer, square root problems

         Multiplying Polynomials:  Area model, area model multiple, multiplication EQ, multiplication EQ poster

         Factoring:  What is the pattern

Problem-Solving

Video: (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-Taker, math content rubric, problem solving organizer, read write reflect notemaker, reading mathematics, reading sticky notes, reflecting mathematics, reflecting sticky notes, writing mathematics, writing sticky notes

Rich Tasks

Video: (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, business example, business 1, business 2, math task planner, parabola army problem, questions from 8 practices, rich task rubric, think tank problems 8th grade, think tank problems 1, think tank solutions 1, think tank, think tank assignment, think tank lesson, think tank museum, think tank rubric student use, think tank rubric - student 5 problems, think tank rubric teacher use, think tank rubric, think tank rubric1 student checks, think tank rubric museum

Patterns

Video: (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, absolute value graphing, arithmetic sequences, graphing quadratics 1, graphing quadratics 2, investigate patterns (email Holly for access to this file), johnny's orchards, make a graph story, more tile patterns, parent function activity, real algebra in a lab, task rotation, tile pattern team challenge (linear), tile patterns - more, tile patterns, transformations 1, transformations 2

Using Literature (including children's books) to teach Algebra 1 & 2 and Geometry

Video: (Click here to view video) Documents accompanying video: Note-taker, 500+ writing formats, as the parabola opens, conventions quick sticky notes, conventions rubric, idea and content quick sticky notes, ideas and content rubric, KIQ, math curse lesson, organization writing leads, organization quick sticky notes, organization rubric, recipe, research rubric, the Sneetches, voice sticky notes, voice rubric

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Help Wanted on
Mont Vernon
This book combines history
and mathematics with
adorable characters to teach
kids about the many talents
of the first U.S. President.
 

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The UnderAchievers:
Woven into a fun story, this
book provides excellent
math lessons for kids.  


Writing Across the Curriculum:
The NumberFix Project

 

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 Wacky We-Search Reports:
A popular book on writing
across the curriculum.