Cartesian Battleship

Another great game from Dan Meyer's blog is Cartesian Battleship. He really has some great stuff, including in this case worksheets and overheads. This activity is probably a little to simple for Grade 10, but would be a fun way to review the cartesian plane.

Cup Stacking

Another great activity shared at Dan Meyer's blog is Linear Fun #2 Stacking Cups. It challenges students to use styrofoam cups to measure the teacher. Its the type of activity that hits a wide range of curriculum points at the same time.

Vector Racer–Teaching Slope

Dan Meyer has a great blog. It has served as an inspiration for my teaching and has some great and creative ideas for teaching math. Race Track is a game to familiarize students with the cartesian plane (and some basic physics principles) by racing around a track. http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=2008. A more precise description is given here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_(game). This is also known as vector racer and there are online versions.

A New Blog For a New Curriculum

Saskatchewan is moving to a new high school math curriculum, and I was trying to think of a way to organize ideas for assignments and lessons that included the ability to tag information with its curriculum strands. I realized that blogger has that type of ability, so I am going to give it a try; any ideas that I have will be put here.