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Using Exceptional Expressions in Your Classroom

The heart of each E4 is the word web. We provide two versions for each lesson, one filled-in and one with blank boxes. These can be projected using an interactive whiteboard or as overheads (they’re even simple enough to redraw on a blackboard), making possible a variety of flexible usage scenarios.

  • Review the word web with students using the completed version
  • Brainstorm with students to fill in the blank version

You can also adapt the blank form for use as a worksheet. Feel free to be creative.

The last E4 will be available on April 24, 2010. We will now be updating the first 7 E4s.

  • #32 Show

    In the classroom students may be asked to show how they solved a math problem.

    Posted 04/24/2010 Read more...

  • #31 Find

    To find something is to look for something that is unknown or lost. It can be a physical object, such as a book, or it can be an idea, such as a solution to why Sarah is unhappy.

    Posted 04/17/2010 Read more...

  • #30 Focus

    The word focus can be used in the classroom in order for the teacher to direct a student’s attention on a particular task at hand.

    Posted 04/10/2010 Read more...

  • #29 Imagine

    The word imagine can be used to mean to conceive or to dream up an idea of a fictitious nature.

    Posted 04/03/2010 Read more...

  • #28 Time

    The noun usage of the word time is the most common usage of the word. Since it is a common way to convey ideas or events to a person, there are many words to describe the idea of time.

    Posted 03/27/2010 Read more...

  • #27 Less

    The word less may also be used during a mathematics lesson to express a relationship between two unlike terms, such as the axiom that the number two is less than the number three.

    Posted 03/20/2010 Read more...

  • #26 More

    More is often used to compare different amounts or situations.

    Posted 03/13/2010 Read more...

  • #25 Teach

    It is a frequent occurrence in a classroom that a student asks his or her teacher to teach them how to do something.

    Posted 03/06/2010 Read more...

  • #24 Give

    The first definition of give is the physical transfer of an object as in give me the book.

    Posted 02/27/2010 Read more...

  • #23 Think

    The most common usage of the word think is to explore an idea with the mind.

    Posted 02/20/2010 Read more...

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