If you are already thinking about your classroom and gathering ideas on Pinterest for a classroom management system, this post is for you. We have rounded up some of our favorite back-to-school blog posts and put them in one spot for your ease and enjoyment. On Preparing your MindsetPrepare yourself to lead your classroom confidently and effectively. Back to school requires ...
Best Math Practices for New Teachers
Welcome, New Math Teacher! If you have made it to this blog post, you are most likely about to enter your first year of teaching or your first year teaching math. (And if you are a veteran math teacher, we would love for you to share your tips in the comments :))We will be attempting to cover everything that will set you up for success in your first year. This is the last post in our ...
Are You An Overwhelmed New Teacher?
Welcome, New Math Teacher! If you have made it to this blog post, you are most likely about to enter your first year of teaching or your first year of teaching math. (And if you are a veteran math teacher, we would love for you to share your tips in the comments :))We will be attempting to cover everything that will set you up for success in your first year. This is part 3 in our series, ...
Tips for a New Math Teacher
Welcome, New Math Teacher! If you have made it to this blog post, you are most likely about to enter your first year of teaching or your first year of teaching math. (And if you are a veteran math teacher, we would love for you to share your tips in the comments :))We will be attempting to cover everything that will set you up for success in your first year. If you haven’t read part 1, ...
How to Teach Middle School Math
Welcome, New Math Teacher! If you have made it to this blog post, you are most likely about to enter your first year of teaching or your first year of teaching math. (And if you are a veteran math teacher, we would love for you to share your tips in the comments :))Let me be the first to offer my congratulations! I hope that you will find our blog useful, so please stay a while. We ...
How Teachers Use Our Math Videos
At Maneuvering the Middle, we take pride in the versatility of our resources. There is not one right way to use a student handout, activity, or even the student math videos.Our teachers shared how they used the student videos to meet the needs of their students and I was blown away. What is most fascinating is how teachers use them in ways we didn’t even think of when we were in the ...
Student Organization in Middle School
Do you struggle with student organization? When I taught high school students, students would throw away their papers as they left my room – IN FRONT OF ME. Has this happened to you? Today, I am sharing what student organization system has worked for me and how other teachers have students organize notes and other papers using Maneuvering the Middle materials.Many of these approaches ...
Ordering Rational Numbers
Comparing and ordering rational numbers is a complex skill with many steps, often complicated by the number of ways the problem can be presented. These tips and ideas will help scaffold this skill and make it more hands-on and engaging for your students.StandardsComparing and ordering rational numbers is predominantly a 6th grade skill in both Common Core and TEKS. It will also support ...
Planning and Designing PBL Projects in Math
If you are interested in Project Based Learning, you might be wondering - where do I start? How do I find these projects?All of the ideas in this post come from Project Based Teaching, a book that we are reading to learn more about implementing projects in our math classrooms this year. Click the link here to grab your copy - a must for any teacher’s shelf. Make sure to scroll down ...
What Makes Maneuvering the Middle Different
Maneuvering the Middle resources are used in an estimated 10,000 classrooms all around the world. (Wow!) What is it about our math curriculum that has teachers telling other teachers and their administration about it? Maneuvering the Middle Curriculum WorksThe reason we can proudly promote our resources as the best thing for students (and teachers) is because we have first hand ...