Student math biography assignment

How is it possible to already be this far behind with blogging after the FOURTH day of school?!?  Oh, yeah.  It might be due to the fact that I still have lessons from last school year that need to be blogged about.

 And, I have yet to finish my #TMC14 reflections.  I feel like I’ve been constantly on the go since July.  I guess this is the life of a teacher.

This year, I decided I wanted to have my students write a mathematical autobiography.

 Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I did some serious google searching.

Student math biography assignment

 It took a while to find, but I finally happened upon some questions that I liked.  

This “Mathography” assignment asked students to write a three paragraph essay.  I wanted to use the same questions but make it less intimidating of an assignment for the first week of school.

Here’s my foldable version.

 Yes, I am truly obsessed.  I guess that’s why people kept referring to me as the &