High School Math Teacher Tips

Use this bulletin board in your middle or high school math classroom to promote problem solving skills and strategies.

Add any of these formative assessments in math class to get a better idea of where your students are at without adding extra prep time for grading!

Between ChatGPT, photo math apps, and equation solvers, students now have tools that can generate answers in seconds. And honestly? Trying to block every tool or police every assignment is exhausting. When we shift from answer-getting to reasoning, modeling, and explaining, AI cheating becomes a lot less useful and much less tempting. Here’s how to AI-proof your math lessons without reinventing your entire curriculum.

When we shift from answer-getting to reasoning, modeling, and explaining, AI cheating becomes a lot less useful and much less tempting. This blog post outlines how to AI-proof your math lessons without reinventing your entire curriculum.

Math worksheets are a great way to get an idea of what your middle and high school students understand. Get four low prep ideas for turning math worksheets into more engaging activities for your students.

Math warm ups are more than just busywork. They create consistency, which students crave sometimes more than we realize. Get tips for structuring your warm up routine in your high school math classroom.

When we shift from answer-getting to reasoning, modeling, and explaining, AI cheating becomes a lot less useful and much less tempting. Get tips for AI-proofing your math lessons without reinventing your entire curriculum.

Math worksheets are a great way to get an idea of what your middle and high school students understand. I am sharing a few low prep ways that you can turn math worksheets into more engaging activities for your students.

Have you noticed that your students’ attention spans are starting to look like the dog from Up? You finally get everyone engaged and listening, then what feels like 30 seconds later a handful of students are focusing on anything but math. I’m sharing these tips with you to help you engage your “I don’t feel like it” and “I’m just not a math person” kids. Learn more about my favorite strategies to increase student engagement and get all of my students to participate in class.

Getting to know your students and their learning styles is a huge part of creating an effective math curriculum. Visual learners thrive in an environment where they are able to read directions, look at graphs/pictures, or watch a procedure. Read the full blog post to get four new strategies for visual learning in your math classroom!

Math worksheets are a great way to get an idea of what your middle and high school students understand. However, day after day of worksheets can get very boring, very quickly. If you’re not looking to spend money or a lot of extra time outside of your prep period, read the full blog post to learn low prep ways that you can turn math worksheets into more engaging activities for your students.

Reach all of your middle and high school students with these math lesson planning tips! There's a lot that can be learned from the Multiple Intelligences Theory and I'm breaking down what this looks like for busy math teachers.

I know what you’re thinking…high school math centers? That would never work with my students. Give it a shot using these five classroom routine strategies and see what happens. Your students may surprise you!

How you spend the first five minutes of math class sets the tone for the rest of the class. This blog post outlines exactly what you need to do to build routines that are meaningful and work for you in your middle or high school math classroom.

Do your students forget everything they know about a math concept as soon as they start to work independently? Get five low prep ideas for teaching math vocabulary that your students will actually remember!