Algebra and geometry

Make exponent rules notes more engaging and memorable for your 7th and 8th grade students (and beyond)! The exponent rules — like quotient rule of exponents, product rule, power rule, and more — can make using exponents challenging. Discover a way to help students better understand and retain these rules by using the exponent rules math wheel, as explained in this blog post! Head to the post to learn how this great tool can be used in class. Students can then keep their math wheel as a study...

See how I get my students discovering the Pythagorean Theorem proof by conducting a series of trials. This hands on lesson was so fun, and students really got to see the Pythagorean Theorem in action.

Pythagorean Theorem and it's Converse

A few weeks ago, @lmhenry9 sent out a tweet asking about Cornell Notes in math class. This morning, @aanthonya sent out another request. Since Cornell Notes are a staple in the AVID classroom, I thought I would post a "how to" on using Cornell Notes in a math classroom. Rationale If you do a google search on Cornell Notes, you will find pages and pages about the history of Cornell notes, why you should use them, what the benefit is, etc. However, what is harder to find is the down and dirty...

Product Description Included is four booklets: reflections, rotations, translations, and dilations. Each booklet has information about the transformation, includes rules, a practice problem, and a sequence of transformations. There are many ways that students can construct their booklets. They can glue them into their interactive notebooks, use as 4 handheld booklets, or staple together to create one booklet.

I find when teaching how to write the equations of lines the best progression is as follows: 1st: Graph the function when given the equation 2nd: Match a given graph to its equation 3rd: Write the...

The origins of Barbie Bungee seem to be unknown, at least according to this twitter conversation. Looking for the earliest known copyrig...

okay. I am a nerd. I know it, and I embrace it. I LOVE the Pythagorean Theorem. When I was in high school, I had an amazing Geometry teacher who made us memorize the Pythagorean Theorem. We were warned; he would be stopping us in the hallway, in the cafeteria, at after-school activities and we would be expected to recite it back to him. As a result, I can state the Pythagorean Theorem with incredible speed and accuracy, bound to amaze students everywhere. "In any right triangle, the square...

Last week my students took their district benchmark assessments, so I was on the hunt for something fun and relevant for when they finished testing. I was so happy to come across a great activity from 123 Teach-Brittany Kiser that she had available as a freebie in her TPT store. Seeing that the topic fit […]

We made this neat little slider for our notebooks. We glued around the edges of the info sheet, and cut out little windows. Then the insert can be pulled out to the appropriate place when they solve the problem and the second window shows what type of triangle it is! Very cool, and available for FREE on TpT. Below are the updated pages that we used this year.

I love teacherspayteachers. The graphic organizer from all things algebra is the bomb dot com. It was a great asset prior to playing algebra wars. I had a few errors like a missing negative sign, so that needs to be fixed prior to posting it. I cut the foldable so the kids had their chart of squares that they need to remember on the side. If you are like my students and wonder why I skipped 14 squared, I told them I have rarely used it in higher math classes. Using this logic, I probably...

Unit 4b: Two-way Tables and Relative Frequency The first two weeks of this unit was at the end of 2nd quarter before winter break. We d...