Google+ Communities

So, I'm trying to striking all the social networks to percentage nearly my interests--math, Elementary Education, together with writing children's books.

I am having a hard fourth dimension amongst Facebook, exactly I did brand a fan page if y'all role Facebook...  Lucy Ravitch--Author together with Teacher Blogger .  The work is that FB is broken for me.  I tin stance my page together with human activeness equally my page there, exactly to 'use Facebook as' together with I direct my page I larn an fault message--HTTP 500 Internal Server message!  I tried for hours to crusade together with produce it, exactly can't.

So, I decided to accept a interruption from that together with cheque out Google+.  I saw they induce got a Communities section.  I works life a few that jibe me, exactly I also decided to brand one. You mightiness similar unopen to of them too.

• Elementary School Teachers is the community I started together with I set subgroups of the degree levels together with unopen to subjects.  I promise it volition grow together with live on a bang-up house to percentage El Ed stuff.
• Elementary Education had 120 people.  It didn't induce got the subgroups that I thought mightiness live on useful, exactly it's an okay group.  I works life Loreen Leedy there--I'm a large fan of her books.
• Mathematics Education (K-12) had 500 people.  It has a wide  range of subgroups, from El Ed to high schoolhouse math teachers.
• Common Core Conversation had 832 people.  It has enough of subgroups together with seems similar a skillful house to be.
• Children's Books, reviews, writers & illustrators had solely 9, exactly seemed rattling good organized together with I intend it volition grow in 1 trial again Children's Book people showtime using Google+

For the community I started I fifty-fifty purchased a pic from Dreamstime to live on the profile...

I actually similar Google+ together with I intend it is getting bigger.  I dearest the ideas of circles together with that y'all tin set people inward to a greater extent than than 1 circle.  I induce got several labeled circles...

• Family
• PTA/School Friends
• Church Friends
• Writing Friends
• Blog Followers
• Acquaintainces

Are y'all using Google+ yet?

Math Activeness Thursday: Set Out Lines

Recently on Google+ I was reading through my Community pages (I convey an Elementary School Teachers Community past times the agency that anyone who wants to bring together tin give the axe hold out purpose of) in addition to in that location was an article shared on i of the math teachers community most how of import publish lines are.  Kids oftentimes don't convey a expert feel of numbers in addition to their placement.

I watch I would throw out a few ideas to produce amongst publish lines.  Number lines help kids visualize which numbers are closest to zero, higher or lower than each other, in addition to the placement of where numbers stand upward for along the line.

Many times inwards schoolhouse nosotros are entirely supposed to instruct the positive numbers, merely I know my ain children ever wondered if in that location were numbers going the other way.  We shouldn't hold out hesitant to exhibit them that indeed in that location are negatives.  When nosotros instruct a subtraction work nosotros tin give the axe exhibit them that in that location is a negative inwards there.  5-2=3 is also 5+(-2)=3.

In college I had an amazing math instructor that taught us how to instruct higher flat math to immature children inwards elementary ways.  He did a demonstration inwards a mo flat shape amongst poker chips.  The crimson chips were hot chips in addition to the bluish chips were mutual frigidness chips.  He used a thermometer drawing to exhibit how the temperature would learn upward or downwardly according to the chips the kids were given.  The thermometer was basically a publish work inwards the vertical position.

At commence the instructor gave the sec graders to a greater extent than hot chips.  For example: i educatee got ix hot in addition to about other educatee got two cold.  What's the temperature?  The kids figured out it was 7.  But later a few of those, he gave to a greater extent than mutual frigidness chips: v hot chips in addition to 10 mutual frigidness chips.  Guess what?  They figured out it was -5!  You should convey seen how the kids were in addition to then excited to know they could learn below zero!

So, that's i activity yous could produce amongst your students.  I would dearest to listen if they learn equally excited equally the kids inwards that mo flat class.

For today, I made a pocket-size freebie which is i page out of a parcel I am made.  I'm giving away the dark in addition to white re-create of the Lilly Pad Number Line!

The 12 page parcel is $3 if yous desire the colored pages in addition to frogs to learn amongst it : )

With the publish lines, the kids get sum inwards the numbers on the Lilly pads in addition to they tin give the axe produce about dissimilar things amongst them later they are cutting into strips in addition to made into a long horizontal line.  Here are about ideas...

• With a pocket-size edible bean handbag equally a frog, come across what numbers they state on in addition to overstep away along a record.  Have the children compare the numbers.  What was the highest number?  Which publish was landed on the most?
• Have the students overstep away along rails of how many books they convey read amongst the publish line.
• Use the Lilly Pad Number Line for the days of school.
• Use the work to overstep away along rails of daily points inwards the classroom.  You could exercise the negative numbers hither too, merely hopefully the kids are earning plenty points to remain out of the negatives : )

What other things produce yous produce amongst publish lines inwards the classroom?