Open Middle has some great problems for simplifying expressions. We practice combining like terms one day, and then the next day we do practice with the distributive property. How could we rewrite that so it doesn’t ‘hurt your ears’?” I tell students, “You know how your ears hurt after you watched that video for a few minutes? That’s what it’s like for mathematicians every time they see something like 5x + 7y + 3x + x + 8y. I may look at another option for next year, or cutting down the video clip somehow, because watching that video for over four minutes is torture, but it serves it’s point. A couple minutes in many of my students are groaning. So if you’re interested in a version of this, seriously just Google “Like Terms Uno” and several different options will come up.Īfter this we start talking about simplifying expressions. I’m not sure if those versions are uploaded to the internet legally, which is why I haven’t included links to them. In a quick Google search of like terms Uno, several other versions came up. The version I use I got on Teachers Pay Teachers a while back, and it looks like it’s no longer available. I really liked how this went, and I’ll probably use the stand and talk in the future versus the Desmos activity. This year instead of using the card sort above, I had students do a stand and talk to introduce this idea. Then I have students group the cards into groups that are like terms. Students will inevitable group some cards that are like terms which leads us into talking about what it means for terms to be “like”. Initially I have students group the card however they choose. I’m sharing back! “Here’s a Function or Not?” Desmos Card Sort with a bonus Nearpod inspired by Open Middle linked in the activity description.To introduce the idea of like terms to my students. Tag, you’re it! What will you create using the Card Sort feature? HINT: Select/click a card to see a larger preview. While Desmos enables users to create math/text cards, image cards, and graph cards right in the Desmos platform, you may have noticed that I like to add a level of color-coding to my card sorts.Ĭreating some, or even all, of the cards in Keynote, exporting the Keynote slides as images, and adding each of these images to an “image card” in Desmos gives a little more control and customization if you’re a color-coding enthusiast like me. Real Number Sort: ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, NEVER Grab these links and save them somewhere handy so you’ll remember you have these in your back pocket this fall, as well as this collection that’s sure to continue to grow! These may come in handy in the early weeks of the new school year, as they address some fundamentally mathy concepts. If you’re just realizing that Card Sort exists (I know… breathe… I was excited too), and you want to get started, check out Julie Reulbach’s wonderful post here where she also mentions that… yes… teachers can now create Desmos Marbleslides activities as well! to sort through, between blog posts, Tweets, Periscopes, Google Docs, and more! One feature that prompted immediate action for me was the official release of the Desmos Card Sort lab creation tool, which is part of the larger Desmos Activity Builder many of us have grown to love over the past year. Recently, I lived virtually and vicariously through all of the wonderful #MTBoS #TMC16 and #descon16 attendees.
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