Everyday Math & Vocabulary

Bell Ringers are great warm up activities to begin a class. Students come in and begin to work as the bell is ringing. Hence the title Bell Ringer.

Getting students to understand lessons are applicable beyond the classroom is sometimes difficult. The first student at each table arrived in our classroom today, selecting a food product box from a huge paper shopping bag. The following Bell Ringer was posted on the Smart Board via the Elmo document camera. The high school students were prohibited from using calculators or the computer for math computations. I admit, I was shocked when they began to ask basic foundational math questions. We reviewed how to problem solve the equations and then moved on to the vocabulary portion of the assignment. Researching the hard to pronounce ingredients in processed food items was more interesting than I had even anticipated. The vocabulary proved hidden science lesson. We learned that animal and plant tissues were in a common breakfast product and that a frozen pizza had a built in antacid and contained tree resin.