How to simplify your math class, tips, strategies, and resources to develop a math classroom plan to meet the needs of all your students. The purpose of this blog and video series is to help you the math teacher, to learn how to help your students achieve success in math class with these tips.
Simplifying is defined as making something less complex or complicated. Let’s face it, sometimes our math classrooms can become too complicated and hard to navigate because of all the things on our to do lists. What if there was a way to make your math class plainer or easier for you to manage and kids to learn. It doesn’t have to be stressful or overwhelming. There are many things you can do, but there is only one you. So let’s simplify things for you. Let’s look at the five things to simplify in your math class.
1. Math Centers
Math Centers/Stations can be a helpful tool in your classroom. Here are some questions to ask yourself about how you run math center/stations in your classroom. How can you make it easier for students to complete on time? How can you make it easier for you to manage?
2. Math Fluency
Math Fluency is important skill that needs to practiced in your classroom. Here are some questions to ask yourself about how you run math fluency in your classroom. How can you make it easier for students to practice fluency? How can you make it easier for you to manage?
3. Math Vocabulary
Math Fluency is an undervalued skill that needs math class support and practice either weekly or monthly in your classroom. Here are some questions to ask yourself about how you run math vocabulary in your classroom. How can you make it easier for students to practice vocabulary? How can you make it easier for you to manage?
4. Classroom Management
Math classroom management should be easy to implement and run in your classroom. Here are some questions to ask yourself about how you run classroom management in your classroom. How can you make it easier for students to learn responsibility? How can you make it easier for you to manage?
5. Math Lessons
Math lessons drive instruction and provide direction in your classroom. Here are some questions to ask yourself about how you structure your math lessons in your classroom. How can you make it easier for students to learn, practice, and assess skills in class? How can you make it easier for you to manage?
7 Quick Tips for Simplifying your Math Class
1. Shorten Classwork. Do your students have enough time to complete classwork? Shorten it, make it simplified. Don’t dumb it down, rather assign less problems. 8 problems is always solid effort for practice.
2. Take Away Non-math skills. Take things out of your math lessons that are not important and distract away from the standard. Does it help students learn a math standard/skill? If not remove it.
3. Remove Distractions in the classroom. Remove any distractions that will effect your classroom management.
4. Make an SOP. Make a daily or weekly SOP to simplify your workload. By planning ahead you can take the stress out of last minute planning. Having standard operating procedures and classroom management will help you excel.
5. Limit your To Do’s list. Having a long exhaustive daily to do list is not productive. Limit your to do list to 3 to 5 items that are doable.
6. Implement Systems. Having systems for centers, fluency, vocabulary, class management, and math lessons will save you time and energy.
7. Stop Assigning HWK. Homework is something that can be controversial. One way to simplify your math class is to stop assigning math homework. Instead of assigning an additional task for students to do alone at home that may or may not get done. Tell students that whatever they don’t finish in class is now homework. IT’s less stressful that way, because students have already started the assignment. They simply have to finish and complete it.
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It’s a 5-part video series about how to simplify your math class. Each quick 6-minute videos will give you tips, strategies, and resources to develop a math classroom plan to meet the needs of all your students. Learn how to help your students achieve success in math class with these tips.
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