Thank you so much for attending my session, "Math with a Purpose: Making Students Think". I truly am passionate about finding ways to foster creative thinking in my math class and have been since I started teaching in 2003. I have consistently been on a mission to find new and inventive ways to help engage learners no matter their learning style, possible accommodations, etc. and over time I've ... View Post
Where in the World is 4mulaFun?
Yes, I am continuing to travel this school year and while I have several places I am working with right now to set up workshops, I have also got some great ones already booked! Interested in knowing where I will be then check out below. September begins with my hubby and I taking a trip to Tempe, Arizona where I will be presenting a session and exhibiting at Arizona Association of Teachers of ... View Post
Taking On Tulsa!
I am SO excited to be in Tulsa today for the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference at Oklahoma State University! Not only do I get the pleasure to present to some amazing Oklahoma educators but I also have a booth set up in the exhibitor area with Interactive Notebooks, Flippables and more! Today's session is all about Engaging Minds while Raising Achievement with Interactive ... View Post
Getting Interactive with Younger Minds
Last week I had the privilege to work with a group of Kindergarten, First and Second Grade teachers in Southwest Georgia on how to incorporate Interactive Notebooks into their classroom setting as well as giving them strategies to benefit them! I will admit that when I was preparing for this workshop I started to get nervous because I haven't been in a second grade classroom since 2009. I loved ... View Post
My Atlanta Adventure
Wake up in the morning feeling mighty sleepy, got my layers on and I'm thinking I've got this city. Traveling all the way to the DF-Dub I've got this flight like it's nothing bub. {Now go back and sing that to the tune of Ke$ha's Tik Tok.} Yea, or so I thought. Hubs and I woke up at 4:30 am today to get to the airport for my 7:15 flight to Atlanta. I knew about the Polar Vortex and it's craziness ... View Post
Need Input from You- Webinars
So it's January and we are all trying to recharge to make sure that we can make it through the last five months of the school year. There are limited breaks in the Spring and it also is now big "state testing" time for many that are coming up. So how do we as teachers stay recharged AND providing engaging activities to motivate our learners? For awhile now I have had the thoughts of providing ... View Post