McClure Math
@erinmcclure.bsky.social
Middle School Math Teacher, NYS Master Teacher Fellow, Desmos Classroom Fellow
Thinking games work so well on those days before a big break! 7th graders played the factor/multiple version of 24. 8th graders played versions of Racetrack as described in Ben Orlin's Math Games with Bad Drawings. We are in our linear relationship unit so some slope fun was fitting. #ITeachMath
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thinking games work so well on those days before a big break! 7th graders played the factor/multiple version of 24. 8th graders played versions of Racetrack as described in Ben Orlin's Math Games with Bad Drawings. We are in our linear relationship unit so some slope fun was fitting. #ITeachMath
So grateful for the dream team and all our participants and supporters! I can't wait for the next round with Steve Johnson and @adameschborn.com Thank you AMTNYS for the platform to share. #ITeachMath #FindingJoyInMath #AMTNYS2025
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
So grateful for the dream team and all our participants and supporters! I can't wait for the next round with Steve Johnson and @adameschborn.com Thank you AMTNYS for the platform to share. #ITeachMath #FindingJoyInMath #AMTNYS2025
Happy Halloween 🎃 sharing my intro to linear relationships story time with my 8th graders. Made the orange circle the "pumpkin". Students don't yet know how to write non-proportional equations and were able to figure out how that +1 pumpkin circle would affect the table and equations. #ITeachMath
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃 sharing my intro to linear relationships story time with my 8th graders. Made the orange circle the "pumpkin". Students don't yet know how to write non-proportional equations and were able to figure out how that +1 pumpkin circle would affect the table and equations. #ITeachMath
Made me smile so big today when our food on the go club brought my coffee order ❤️ #ITeachMath
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#FindingJoyInMSMath
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Made me smile so big today when our food on the go club brought my coffee order ❤️ #ITeachMath
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#FindingJoyInMSMath
Favorite addition to celebrate students for studying and trying to really master our content! I have students that earn 85% or better take a photo (with or without glasses) that I then email to their families. Kids find it silly, families love the positive contact!
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Favorite addition to celebrate students for studying and trying to really master our content! I have students that earn 85% or better take a photo (with or without glasses) that I then email to their families. Kids find it silly, families love the positive contact!
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
If you have never tried a Formative Assessment Lesson from the Mathematics Assessment Project, here's your invitation!! The time is worth it! These are some of my 8th graders working with transformations. www.map.mathshell.org/lessons.php
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
#StudentAgency
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
#StudentAgency
October 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If you have never tried a Formative Assessment Lesson from the Mathematics Assessment Project, here's your invitation!! The time is worth it! These are some of my 8th graders working with transformations. www.map.mathshell.org/lessons.php
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
#StudentAgency
#FindingJoyInMSMath
#ITeachMath
#StudentAgency
#FindingJoyMSMath I had a student leave 'egyptian hieroglyphics' on my board...hint was the first character is "s" 😂
October 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#FindingJoyMSMath I had a student leave 'egyptian hieroglyphics' on my board...hint was the first character is "s" 😂
One of my favorite warm-ups of the year! 7th graders have sorting challenges (I describe attributes) and 8th graders will use the manipulatives to solve systems of equations. #iteachmath #findingjoyinmiddleschoolmath #mathsky
May 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
One of my favorite warm-ups of the year! 7th graders have sorting challenges (I describe attributes) and 8th graders will use the manipulatives to solve systems of equations. #iteachmath #findingjoyinmiddleschoolmath #mathsky
Ice cream celebration with some of my students that had 2 or less zeros over the quarter. #iteachmath #findingjoyinmiddleschool
May 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ice cream celebration with some of my students that had 2 or less zeros over the quarter. #iteachmath #findingjoyinmiddleschool
Problem Solving through Games and Puzzles loosely based on Ben Orlin's Math Games with Bad Drawings. Inaugural Spring Conference of Buffalo Area Association of Math Teachers. Another fun presentation with @adameschborn.com! #BAAMT #mathsky #findingjoy #iteachmath
May 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Problem Solving through Games and Puzzles loosely based on Ben Orlin's Math Games with Bad Drawings. Inaugural Spring Conference of Buffalo Area Association of Math Teachers. Another fun presentation with @adameschborn.com! #BAAMT #mathsky #findingjoy #iteachmath
Capture the Flag with an unfair twist today in order to keep my students powering through review questions. Great conversations, and I feel the students were really helping each other grow in understanding. #iteachmath #mathsky #findingjoyinmiddleschoolmath
May 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Capture the Flag with an unfair twist today in order to keep my students powering through review questions. Great conversations, and I feel the students were really helping each other grow in understanding. #iteachmath #mathsky #findingjoyinmiddleschoolmath
8th grade state science test today so I volunteered to take all the 7th graders for 3 periods of review games and shenanigans. They were all engaged and so many actually thanked me for my ridiculous antics on the way out ❤️ #findingjoyinmiddleschool #iteachmath #mathjoy
April 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
8th grade state science test today so I volunteered to take all the 7th graders for 3 periods of review games and shenanigans. They were all engaged and so many actually thanked me for my ridiculous antics on the way out ❤️ #findingjoyinmiddleschool #iteachmath #mathjoy
Probability should be fun! Race to the top dice sums, predictions vs experimental data. Good energy in the room on the day before break even though we were still covering the curriculum! #iteachmath #findingjoy #mathsky
April 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Probability should be fun! Race to the top dice sums, predictions vs experimental data. Good energy in the room on the day before break even though we were still covering the curriculum! #iteachmath #findingjoy #mathsky
We have been working on determining the area and then side length of a tilted square in order to discover the Pythagorean Theorem. I had a kid beat me to the big reveal!! The student in blue was verifying the idea and named it "C's way". I can't wait for tomorrow. #iteachmath #findingjoy
April 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
We have been working on determining the area and then side length of a tilted square in order to discover the Pythagorean Theorem. I had a kid beat me to the big reveal!! The student in blue was verifying the idea and named it "C's way". I can't wait for tomorrow. #iteachmath #findingjoy
Great way to begin my day! @kurt-salisbury.bsky.social my 7th graders loved your Punch Out challenges in Desmos Classroom, one stating "defeating Mike Tyson helped me really know mean, median and range!"
#findingjoyinmsmath #iteachmath
#desmosclassroom
#findingjoyinmsmath #iteachmath
#desmosclassroom
March 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Great way to begin my day! @kurt-salisbury.bsky.social my 7th graders loved your Punch Out challenges in Desmos Classroom, one stating "defeating Mike Tyson helped me really know mean, median and range!"
#findingjoyinmsmath #iteachmath
#desmosclassroom
#findingjoyinmsmath #iteachmath
#desmosclassroom
Finding Joy in Middle school math: I'm pretty sure I was the only teacher in the building on a Friday afternoon with 10 students staying BY CHOICE after school. Breakout club for some, math questions for others; kids that run in different circles working together to solve problems.
#iteachmath
#iteachmath
March 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Finding Joy in Middle school math: I'm pretty sure I was the only teacher in the building on a Friday afternoon with 10 students staying BY CHOICE after school. Breakout club for some, math questions for others; kids that run in different circles working together to solve problems.
#iteachmath
#iteachmath
I like the number snake. Referencing your other post about Beast Academy curriculum, I'm incredibly impressed that they use that format beginning with their 1A level instead of linear fill in the blank practice.
March 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I like the number snake. Referencing your other post about Beast Academy curriculum, I'm incredibly impressed that they use that format beginning with their 1A level instead of linear fill in the blank practice.
Finding Joy in Middle School Math: understanding lines of best fit and outliers though @desmos.com 8th grade Dapper Cats lesson. My own children wanted to try my fun lesson. My 8th graders had fun and are confident with predictions through the line of best fit.
#iteachmath #mathsky #edusky
#iteachmath #mathsky #edusky
March 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Finding Joy in Middle School Math: understanding lines of best fit and outliers though @desmos.com 8th grade Dapper Cats lesson. My own children wanted to try my fun lesson. My 8th graders had fun and are confident with predictions through the line of best fit.
#iteachmath #mathsky #edusky
#iteachmath #mathsky #edusky
Finding Joy in Middle School Math: the joy of pulling away from endless state test practice workbooks! Presenting questions, talking about common mistakes, supporting each other's thinking, and celebrating "how easy this is" after months of powerful thinking!
#mathsky #iteachmath #joyinmath
#mathsky #iteachmath #joyinmath
March 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Finding Joy in Middle School Math: the joy of pulling away from endless state test practice workbooks! Presenting questions, talking about common mistakes, supporting each other's thinking, and celebrating "how easy this is" after months of powerful thinking!
#mathsky #iteachmath #joyinmath
#mathsky #iteachmath #joyinmath
Finding Joy in MS Math: click battle @desmos.com to pull them into the lesson, then space and pacing created so the students can organize the data as they see best. My only group that graphed today went further to point out the data was non- linear and not a function. Great class discussion!
March 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Finding Joy in MS Math: click battle @desmos.com to pull them into the lesson, then space and pacing created so the students can organize the data as they see best. My only group that graphed today went further to point out the data was non- linear and not a function. Great class discussion!
Finding Joy in MS Math: new challenge for my 8th graders following their volume unit; What amount of space is empty in the cheese ball container?
#iteachmath #projectbasedformativeassessment #sharemathlove #cheeseballs
#iteachmath #projectbasedformativeassessment #sharemathlove #cheeseballs
March 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Finding Joy in MS Math: new challenge for my 8th graders following their volume unit; What amount of space is empty in the cheese ball container?
#iteachmath #projectbasedformativeassessment #sharemathlove #cheeseballs
#iteachmath #projectbasedformativeassessment #sharemathlove #cheeseballs
Happy Pi Day my math people! Five of my 7th graders were able to pie me today but this event helped raise over $2700 for cancer research through Roswell Park. #iteachmath #piday
March 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Happy Pi Day my math people! Five of my 7th graders were able to pie me today but this event helped raise over $2700 for cancer research through Roswell Park. #iteachmath #piday
Although these would make a fabulous set of earrings, I'm so excited to get these TI travel bugs placed so they can begin their adventure! Wonderful birthday present! Special shout out to my TI people for making this math teacher super excited!!
#sharemathlove #iteachmath #ticalculators
#sharemathlove #iteachmath #ticalculators
March 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Although these would make a fabulous set of earrings, I'm so excited to get these TI travel bugs placed so they can begin their adventure! Wonderful birthday present! Special shout out to my TI people for making this math teacher super excited!!
#sharemathlove #iteachmath #ticalculators
#sharemathlove #iteachmath #ticalculators
Finding Joy in MS Math: 8th grade students enthusiastically sculpt models of 3D shapes to test if they can slice it fairly thus proving if it follows V=(base shape area)(height) formula. Hands on experience means we aren't tricked with rotation.
March 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Finding Joy in MS Math: 8th grade students enthusiastically sculpt models of 3D shapes to test if they can slice it fairly thus proving if it follows V=(base shape area)(height) formula. Hands on experience means we aren't tricked with rotation.
Finding Joy in MS Math: when @desmos.com provides the self-checking opportunity that invites my students to take on the challenge of combining 9 expressions all at once! Built-in student agency, some students only combined pairs or groups of 3 at a time. #mathteacher #mtbos
March 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Finding Joy in MS Math: when @desmos.com provides the self-checking opportunity that invites my students to take on the challenge of combining 9 expressions all at once! Built-in student agency, some students only combined pairs or groups of 3 at a time. #mathteacher #mtbos