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Introducing May’s Owl-Some Featured Friend: MissMathDork

Seriously, who could ask for a better friend than MissMathDork herself? She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s kooky and sometimes I think we share a brain! MissMathDork and I met through Teachers Pay Teachers and have formed an awesome bond since we are both not only math teachers but share a lot

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Five For Friday: Tutoring, Wrap-Up and Progress

It’s that time again! WOO HOO, another Friday has come my way and that makes me SO HAPPY!First up this week was an impromptu tutoring session with a former student. She was struggling with distributive property and needed some help to finish her homework. I hate that I am missing

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Reviewing Proportions with WKU

Seems like many teachers I have talked to recently are reviewing proportions with their students. Just last week Ms. M shared with me that her students were working on the Proportions Solve and Snip while I was reviewing how to set up proportions using WKU. Ms. M‘s kiddos sure were

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Love my Owl-Some Friends!

I have some seriously OWL-SOME friends and because of that, I want to take time to share those Owl-Some friends with all of my blog readers and followers. What is an Owl-Some Friend? you might ask…. Well, there are two types of Owl-Some Friends here at 4mulaFun. There is an

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Tech Tip: Installing Fonts on Windows

After fielding a few questions lately on installing fonts in Windows, I thought it was time I go ahead and type of the steps I go through so that I could share them with the world rather than just the 5-10 people who have asked me recently. Now, I will

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Just In Time…

From the very first Solve and Snip that I introduced back in October 2012, I have been requested to bundle them all together for teachers who teach more than one grade. Well I am happy to announce, that bundle is NOW AVAILABLE! Some of you may know why I created

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2, 4, 6, 8… Who Do I Appreciate?

You, of course! Each year for as long as I can remember I have helped celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week (held during the first full week of May) in some form or fashion as a student, a teacher and a Student Council Sponsor. This time of year is so important to

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Measurement Mayhem with the Halflings in Action

This time of year so many of us are in what I like to call “Review Mode“. We are reviewing the skills we have covered all year, prepping for end of the year testing, trying to use every minute of the day to be educational while thinking in the back

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Need a new Flippable? {FREEBIE ALERT!}

As a kid, do you remember making Cootie Catchers and loving to ask questions and thinking that they would predict the future? I can’t even try to count how many times I made these as a kiddo and thought I was going to be kissed by my crush, always picked

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What is Area? Concept Review with Task Cards

As we are nearing the culmination of time before our 7th Grade STAAR testing for Math, I spent some time reviewing some key concepts that were tricking my students this past week. I was so happy to come across these awesome task cards by Miss Math Dork where my students

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