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Teaching Order of Operations

October 6, 2018

Order of Operations… OH MY! | TEKS 5.4e | TEKS 6.7a

Every year it seems as if working on Order of Operations is a brand new concept for my students, as if it has all of a sudden become a foreign language. I will admit that if you are just looking at a mnemonic device it might as well be a foreign language.. PEMDAS, BEDMAS, GEMS, yep, none of that makes sense to a student and when you throw it in with other mnemonics they have been exposed to it is ... View Post

Filed Under: Interactive Notebooks, Math Workshop, Teaching Tagged With: anchor chart, INB, interactive notebook, interactive notebooks, math workshop, order of operations, work stations, workstations

Setting Up Interactive Notebooks with Video

September 6, 2018

Setting Up Interactive Notebooks from the Beginning

Time and time again I am asked numerous questions about Interactive Notebooks because people know that I not only LOVE INBs but I have been using them, creating them and training other teachers on them for the better part of the past decade. Recently one of my Facebook Group members asked, "How do you go about setting up Interactive Notebooks from the beginning?" and when she asked this I knew ... View Post

Filed Under: Interactive Notebooks, Teaching Tagged With: INB, interactive notebook, interactive notebooks

classifying triangles with manipulatives

April 22, 2018

Classifying Triangles with Manipulatives in Fourth Grade | TEKS 4.6c | TEKS 4.6d

In fourth grade students are tasked with building a basic knowledge of classifying triangles based on their attributes, identifying angles (right, acute and obtuse) as well as classifying two-dimensional figures based on their characteristics (TEKS 4.6c, TEKS 4.6d). While this is a fourth grade skill, it seems to be an area that many grade levels beyond also need enforcement in before our ... View Post

Filed Under: Interactive Notebooks, Teaching Tagged With: INB, TEKS

Rotations Reflections and Translations

February 13, 2018

Transformations Can Be Tricky!

Each year, I secretly love when I get to teach transformations because I not only enjoy teaching them but I love seeing the LIGHT in student's eyes when they finally grasp on to what they are or they are able to teach a classmate. Seriously the best part of teaching. If your students are anything like mine they seem to get each of the different types of transformations (rotation, ... View Post

Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: INB, round up

Are you struggling with implementing Math Workshop at the Middle School level? After many years of using Math Workshop in my classroom I am sharing some of the basics on planning, setting up and implementing math workshop right away!

November 2, 2017

Math Workshop: Working it Out in Middle School

For many people, implementing Math Workshop in Middle School is a foreign concept. I'm here to tell you that it doesn't have to be. You can make it work. I did and I honestly think that my students learned more because of it. Setting Up the Week Many of you know that I am a HUGE Interactive Notebook user and being so does not mean it is the only think that I do in my classroom, in fact using ... View Post

Filed Under: Interactive Notebooks, Math Workshop Tagged With: INB, math workshop

October 4, 2017

Update on Converting Rational Numbers (Fractions, Decimals and Percents)

With a new school year there is always a reason to change things up a bit in lessons and doing so in my Interactive Notebooks is no different. Back in September 2012, I created one of my first flippables for my official interactive notebooks and that has widely been seen around the internet. This Converting Rational Numbers flippable is my best seller on Teachers Pay Teachers individually with ... View Post

Filed Under: Interactive Notebooks, Teaching Tagged With: INB

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Jennifer Jochen

Jennifer Smith Jochen has been an educator since 2003 with experience in elementary, middle school and college. Math has been her passion since a young age which no doubt resulted in her secondary math teaching career. Currently Jennifer is a Differentiated Curriculum Designer and Staff Developer traveling the nation to train teachers on the effectiveness of Interactive Notebooks, Math Workshop and All Things Math. When she is not traveling and training she lives in Fort Worth, TX with her husband and dachshunds where they are working to renovate their home together while channeling their inner JoJo and Chip!

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