Posts Tagged: Geometry

Games for Transformation of Shapes in Geometry

If you don’t like where a shape is, then TRANSFORM IT! How do you learn to translate, reflect, rotate, or dilate a shape?   Better yet, how do you have FUN while learning about transformations??? You play these FREE math games that help students master the concepts!…

Super Secondary Manipulatives: Anglegs!

When I showed a set of Anglegs to a high school math department and everyone said, “What are those?” I knew I needed to blog about these amazing manipulatives! Anglegs come in six lengths of plastic that easily snap together to explore plane geometry. When you snap two Anglegs, of any length together, you can snap a special 4” protractor to explore angles.…

3 FREE Math Games: Multiplication, Exponents, High School Geometry

It’s January and it is TIME for AHA moments!! Make one of these games or one from our website and see what happens! To download all three of these free math games, simply join the Tabor Team (it’s FREE, too) and you’re set to go! Joining will also make sure you receive a new FREE math game every month!…

Geometry–Out of the Box!

I received an email this morning from a Geometry Instructor/Assistant Athletic Director who has been using the Tabor Rotation Framework at the Secondary Level for the past two years. Attached to it was a real-world assessment of the geometrical concept of transformations. I was engaged just by reading it!…

Math Stations: Big Classes Need “Pair” Bags

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”     -Michael Jordan That’s why teams working together at math stations are a vital component of the Tabor Rotation Framework. Effectively equipping teams for their work is imperative—especially in a math classroom at a math station! When teachers begin to sophisticate their use of students working in math stations in a classroom, many questions arise.…

Irregular! Impossible? Important!: Area & Perimeter of Irregular Polygons

“Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.” -Clarence Day, The Crow’s Nest Last week I received a comment and a request from Anne, an academic coach at an Elementary school in Georgia. I first heard from Anne this August when she visited my website looking for information about differentiating instruction and using small groups in math. …