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Cindy Johnson

Cindy Johnson. @ johnsonmath AKA The Conic Card Lady. Where I was…. I was teaching mostly low level Algebra 2 students who didn’t plan to go to college. Conics seemed impossible! Formulas were SO complex!

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Cindy Johnson

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  1. Cindy Johnson @johnsonmath AKA The Conic Card Lady

  2. Where I was… • I was teaching mostly low level Algebra 2 students who didn’t plan to go to college. • Conics seemed impossible! • Formulas were SO complex! • I struggled keeping everything straight in my mind. How are they ever going to get it? • In previous years my students did ok when the conics were separated but when they were supposed to identify the conic then solve, chaos began. • Students HATED conics!

  3. What I started with… • Index Cards and Markers! • What if I told them the answers? • What if I never gave them the formula? • What if we started with all the conics being mixed together and sorted them into the 4 types from the beginning? • What if I made the assignments very straight forward where they reinforced what was being discussed, but didn’t overwhelm them at all?

  4. Conic Cards Each deck of Conic Cards includes 4 types of cards - Graphs (5 each of the 4 conics) - Equations (5 each of the 4 conics) - Information (5 each of the 4 conics) - Formula/title cards Each deck has a unique answer key.

  5. What students do? Ultimately, they match all 20 equation cards to the correct information cards and graphs. Strategies I use… Small group activity Identify similarities and differences Make a conjecture. Quick mini-lessons to individual groups (1-2 minutes) Whole class discussions

  6. How to get them? • Email me: johnsoncindy2002@yahoo.com • Message me @johnsonmath You can retrieve it all at… https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7s7EabiuUj7ZU1uMW92TWNOSTA/edit?usp=sharing

  7. I’d like you to know…

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