For Math Teachers

This post would be of interest to math teachers beginning in 5th grade and going through high school algebra and geometry. This link will take you to a page of PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets that I think you will find helpful. They were composed by Karen Ferrell, math teacher at Northwest High School in the Northwest Independent School District (Texas).

The page includes a short description of each item. You can download any or all of them to your computer. The ones I thought would be especially useful were:

• Plotting Points-Fill in a chart with "x" and "y" values and watch the points automatically plot themselves.
• Graphing Equations-Much like the one above, plot points and watch the parabola materialize.
• Quadrilateral Predications-As soon as students know the basic geometric shapes up through parallelogram and rhombus, they will enjoy this.
• Jeopardy Game-This one can be used by any teacher, any grade level, any subject. I would first save this one as a template. You can them create a jeopardy game by editing the slides with names of categories, questions, and answers. You can save that game and use it every year. By saving your original template, you can create a new game for every unit. Great to use to review for tests.