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Solving Linear Systems Quiz Quiz Trade Cards | Grade 8 | Graphing & Substitution Need a fun review activity for solving linear systems by graphing and substitution that gets your students up and moving around the room? These printable Quiz Quiz Trade task cards give students the o...

Need a fun review activity for your 8th Grade math students when you return from Winter Break?

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A Teacher’s Guide To Holiday Gifts If a student brings you a gift, literally ANY gift, it means something special.

Gonna leave this here in case anybody needs some last minute inspiration.

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You find out how good at classroom management and teaching a specific subject you are when the internet goes out in the middle of your internet required lesson.

Today was a “finally eat my lunch at 3pm” kind of day.

Top 6 Best Two-Player Board Games for Game Night It’s game night and you are ready to host your trusty board game geek friends for another spirited marathon session of Settlers of Catan, Codenames, and Ticket To Ride. But wait… the ma…

Besides teaching math to wacky adolescents, one of my other passions is playing board games. Finally made a list of my favorite board games to play when game night gets destroyed by the scheduling gods and it's just the two of you.

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The worst part about taking a sick day on Friday is not seeing how it went until Monday.

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To Sick Day, or Not To Sick Day? The amount of trash on the floor tells you everything you need to know.

In honor of my first cold of the school year, a look back at the calculus I do when determining whether or not I take a sick day.

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I’ve been phasing it in over the past 3 years. While my students aren’t at the VNPS every class period, I’m working towards 3/5 days per week.

I highly disagree. These are great problems for students to work together on solving. They are able to come up with great strategies, and always want to solve more. I use them all the time in my classroom.

Not magic.

Here's a new "The Answers Are..." problem I created.
Remember, the rules are...

1. Use +, -, x , / one time each
2. Use one operation a second time
3. Create each answer from only 2 numbers in the bank
4. Numbers in the bank can only be used one time each

Can you figure it out?
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Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thoughts Thank you to every single student who uses the class materials properly and returns them to the correct storage location. You are the true heroes of the classroom.

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A Teacher’s Guide To Holiday Gifts If a student brings you a gift, literally ANY gift, it means something special.

Just a quick blog post about how I approach gift giving during the holidays as a teacher.

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Comparing Linear Functions BTC Thin Slicing Group Activity | Grade 8 Math This "Thin Slicing" activity on comparing linear functions gets your 8th grade students thinking about linear functions. These progressively challenging task cards start students with simple proportio...

Just a shameless plug for my newest lesson product on comparing linear functions for 8th grade math. 🙈

If you teach middle school math, or know someone who does, maybe check it out or pass it along?

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Today I received a message from a student on our classroom website messaging app.

"Thank you Mr. Zuercher for helping me with my meth".

Yep, you read that correctly.

How come I am exhausted after a perfectly normal day of school?

Hello there. 🙂

Students were working on systems of equations today and one of them made a mistake and exclaimed “Oopsie Poopsie” and now that is the class motto for mistakes.

Middle school is weird.

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Is It Wednesday Yet? I barely graduated high school. And by barely, I mean “pretty sure the school counselors did some creative accounting on my transcript to keep the graduation rate high” barely. When I tell my curre…

Greetings to people finding my Bluesky account.

Linked is my favorite blog post from the last year. I hope you enjoy it. If you like my writing, please explore my blog. If you don't like it so much, thank you for at least reading one of them!

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Hey there Bluesky community. I’m a middle school math teacher in Southern California. I hope to connect with colleagues, share lesson ideas, and learn.

I (sometimes) write blogs about teaching and create lessons for educators using Building Thinking Classrooms. Say hello. 🙂

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During a test yesterday a student approached my desk and asked to borrow an eraser, but I was all out.

Another student began hunting through his backpack to find a spare.

He finally found one, ran over and gave it to him, and said “you got this buddy!”

I love moments of classroom kindness. 🙂

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Ok, so how do I find other middle school teachers on this here application?