Math 1

Converting equations from standard form to slope-intercept form is challenging for students in the beginning. So, I tried one of my colleagues approach this year and I ended up absolutely LOVING it! Students ended up catching on extremely fast and I'm so thankful that she shared this approach with the rest of the team. First, she tells students that there are two steps in converting equations from standard form to slope-intercept form. The first step is the "X-CITING MOVE" (insert VERY...

I'm going to try to get my box.net materials updated over this coming week. In the meantime, here are a couple of decent worksheets that yo...

Are you looking for a fun quadratics inquiry activity linking parabolas to rectangle dimensions? In this post super math teacher Ms. Childers shares her amazing algebra activity with us.

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After a great day of teaching exponential growth and decay, I felt like my students really knew the topic forwards and backwards. We did thi...

This year, I'm jumping on the bandwagon for Interactive Notebooks. It's a process for me, but since my students don't have textbooks it works works great (so far). Below are some pictures of my Distance and Midpoint Formula Foldable. I got this idea for the foldable from similar one I saw in a classroom last year. However, in the one I saw it was all handwritten by the student and it was only the formula, definition and one example for each on the inside. I added a visual representation as...

Here are the notes I used this year for the 2nd unit of Algebra 1: Day 1: We started off the unit with a classifying variables sort. This was a good way to jog students’ memories about their …

Update 8/3/15: I've decided that you probably shouldn't use this game in class and I blogged about that here. I could just delete this post, but I figure there's always the chance that someone will think of a way to improve it. This is the second part of my ramblings about exponents. You should probably go read the first part before you read this! I don't think there was ever a moment in my life where I said, "Hey! That review game worked really well today. It really helped to prepare my...

Slope Graphic Organizer for Algebra 1 and Geometry Interactive Notebooks

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Egg hunt to practice multiplying polynomials! #iteachmiddleschool #iteachmath #iteach456 #iteach678 #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers

Before Christmas, we finished one of my favorite units of the year in Algebra 1 - Relations and Functions. With regards to pacing, we are WAY behind where I would like to be, but there's not much I can do about that. Last year, my pacing was off in the other direction. We spent a full two months of the school year on data and probability because we got through the rest of the standards too quickly. I do know that this year's students have a much better handle on solving equations and...

It's Christmas Break! My Algebra 1 students are almost done with our unit on Linear Graphs and Inequalities. We've gone through all but t...