Blogging Assignment for Math Students

I have been thinking about ways to incorporate blogging into my 7th grade math classes. We have so much to cover in such a short time that I started to focus on eliminating my daily warm-ups and do a daily blog instead. The warm-ups serve to focus the class and get them thinking mathematically. I could substitute a "problem of the week," which could be a multi-step logic problem or brain teaser that would take higher order thinking. The students could interact with each other via blog postings to gain assistance, ask questions, voice strategies, etc. This would allow all my students to work together, not just those within the same class. This task incorporates several of the process standards as set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics including, reasoning and proof, communication and problem solving.

Firsts

Well, here we go my first go- around as a blogger. I can't help but feel like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City. I hope to use this site to further my repertoire of technology based math lessons, as well as providing my students and colleagues a place to assist others and be assisted.

Wish me luck!!