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| Numbers About Me Activity |
Students were supposed to write five numbers that had special meaning to them and tell me the significance that number had in their lives. I was shocked by the number of freshman I had that did not know the meaning of the word "significance."
Last year, I had students do this on the first page of their interactive notebooks, but I didn't get a chance to read them until the first time I collected notebooks to grade. This way, I was able to engage each student in a conversation about one of their important numbers as I circulated the classroom and picked up the completed activity. Some responses were quite interesting, but I'm pretty sure nothing could top my Algebra 2 student who predicted the date he would die as one of his important numbers...
Now that we are seven days into the school year, I need to pull these back out and re-read them! This time, I should be able to put a face with the name...
If anyone is interested in using this short activity in their class, I have embedded the file I used below.