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Free Fidget Spinners Lesson Collection If that’s all you came here for, Scroll To The Bottom Of The Post!  Have a great time with these, they’re awesome! Now…I also hope you’ll keep reading. BANNED: The process that has brought me to this post today is the most exciting thing about being …

Put A Spin On It The second N in the I.N.S.T.A.N.T acronym for increasing relevance in your lessons stands for National Events and Crazes. First, there was the Rainbow Loom, then there was Bottle Flipping, and today, the craze taking over the nation (and many nations from what I read), …

Fear not, this is not a post about religion! Easter is Coming!! Easter is only 15 days away, so resurrection is all the rage in the news these days. What’s that, you say? You haven’t been reading about resurrection all over the front pages? Maybe you didn’t even realize Easter was …

Definitely Make This One Real Ok, this is a short #MakeItReal Moment. I saw this picture in an article today and immediately had buckets of questions. According to the article I read about it, this is a building plan for NYC. I leave this #MakeItReal moment entirely to you. Since …

Watermelons! Watermelons Everywhere! WARNING: WHEN DEALING WITH WATERMELON CATAPULTS, LEARN PHYSICS FIRST! People like to send me jokes, memes, gifs etc., about math because, well, it’s a kind of defense mechanism. A lot of people have a bad relationship with math, so laughing about it makes it better. I’ve had …

Cold As Ice Recently, a friend of mine from college posted an observation of his from a shopping trip to the store on his Facebook page. As you can see, he’s correct. They don’t stock “winter water” anymore…just Spring Water. However, during our time together as suite-mates in college, our …

#MakeItReal Moments I’m starting a new segment in my blog called #MakeItReal Moments. Many of you know I host a weekly twitter chat called #MakeItReal on Wednesday nights at 9:30 pm EST. We chat for 30 minutes on the many ways to increase student engagement by increasing the relevance of …

This is not a political post! I just wanted you to know that 🙂 There are a lot of posts out there about the results of the U.S. Presidential Election. In fact, I wrote one for Alice Keeler’s blog before November 8th on how to use the election in your …

If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for great ways to incorporate Desmos into class. Tomorrow, most of my students will want to talk about Halloween, understandably. So, if you build it… Here’s an excellent new Halloween Activity! Have your students travel the Halloween Maze! Here are 3 great …