Middle School Math Moments (now Cognitive Cardio Math)

Among other things, I've been working on my first Valentine's activity and my first giveaway - I started small:)  Feel free to enter, as well as share what you've been working on! An InLinkz Link-up

I have been trying the Whole30 Program for about 15 days now, and it's definitely challenging to avoid all of the foods on the "non-compliant" list. The only food I am really missing is peanut butter/peanuts. The reasoning for not eating peanuts, basically, is this: as a legume, peanuts have lectin (a protein structure that may be hazardous to humans), which is highly resistant to digestion and toxic to animals (when raw). All legumes have lectin, but it's usually destroyed during heating. In peanuts, it isn't destroyed, and lectins then fool your gut lining into letting them into the bloodstream by mimicking the structure of other proteins. Undigested proteins shouldn't be released into the body, so the result is inflammation in the body. Instead of eating peanut butter, the authors/founders of the program suggest sunflower butter, which they say is very similar to peanut butter. I finally picked some up today, and I really like it! Since the Whole30 does n...

I haven't done a Workin' On It Wednesday in a while! I hope what you're working on is going well! I've been working on eating clean and weight training, have started an Instagram account, and have been putting a lot of thought into factoring using the ladder method (about which I have a different blog post that I'm working on). Link up below! An InLinkz Link-up

This post has been moved to Cognitive Cardio with Middle School Math Moments .

There are times during the school year when I think I spend too much time on a math topic….not because the kids seem bored with it or anything like that, but because I have to get so many concepts covered that I’m afraid I’ll run out of time; so spending more time than I’m “supposed to” occasionally stresses me out.   But most of the time, I’m glad I spend so much time on concepts, even though I appear to be “behind” when talking with other teachers about “where we are.” When I say that I spend more time, it’s not that I make the students do worksheet after worksheet; instead, we practice/interact with the same skills in different ways, as I’m sure you do. For example, before the holiday break, we worked on finding the GCF. In the past, most of the students had only been taught one method to find GCF - by listing out the factors. I taught the students the prime factorization method and the ladder method (personally, I LOVE the ladder method, for most sets of numbers). Then we ha...

What do teachers need? What's the first thought that comes to your mind? I'm so curious to know the first thought that crosses your mind when asked that question (as a current teacher or former teacher). Will you leave your thoughts in the comments below? Whatever comes to mind first....!   Thanks! ** apple clip art by http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Katieludesigns ** font by http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teachesthirdingeorgia

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