Teacher Tip: Some students love to doodle. So, get that out of the way in the beginning. Ask students to draw their best doodle for you. Sometimes I will select an item for them to draw. One day I asked everyone to draw their best panda. It was a lot of fun for my students as well as for me to see their artistic abilities that have been hidden from me.
Here are some ideas for how to get going with whiteboards in your classroom:
Elementary Math
Fluency Practice
Read-Draw-Write Problems
Modeling – Ten frames, Number Bonds, Arrays
Show your thinking
Middle School
Fluency Practice
Modeling a problem
Tape Diagrams
Order of Operations
Graphing
Make a problem for your neighbor to solve
Algebra
Graphing Lines
Identifying Slopes and y-intercepts
Making Tables
Solving Equations
Model the problem with a picture or words
Make your own problem – give to a neighbor to solve
Geometry
Vocabulary and Notation Check
Sketching Transformations
Identifying Angle Pair Relationships
Solving for unknown angles
Practicing Trigonometry Ratios
Segment and line relationships with circles
Algebra 2
Factoring
Sketching parent functions & identifying them from a graph
Writing Equations for a graph and identifying key features
Solving Equations
Powers of numbers