Catherine Clay

Easy concept--not sure why I didn't think of it sooner! My kids have always struggled with intervals of increase and decrease until this year! I decided to organize each concept in columns and use the same graph in each column. This allowed us to highlight specific sections and work on representing that section accordingly. Instead of having all parts on one graph, which becomes convoluted, this made it much easier for the kids to see exactly what I had been trying to explain. A ton of my s

This activity was designed to address the comparison portion of MCC8.EE.3. I thought it would be more engaging to compare salaries than sizes of planets. In searching the Internet, I discovered a list of the 400 wealthiest Americans and surprisingly, it did not include athletes or celebrities. This activity has students compare the salaries of billionaires to other billionaires and millionaires. Students practice converting numbers into scientific notation, division of scientific notation, an

Resource used to introduce function notation. It covers as ordered pairs, reading graphs, tables, equations & interpreting in context, so as I said--a little bit of everything. I make my products geared to lower-level students in hopes of all students being successful. I use it to cover everything in a class period, but could easily be used for homework and/or review before an assessment.

This is a flowchart created by myself in conjunction with my collaborative teacher to assist our level one students who were struggling with the elimination method of solving systems (also known as linear combination/addition/multiplication). Students resisted using the flowchart at first but after being forced to practice with it, they really saw it's value & eventually reached the point of no longer needing it. =)

Short, relatable stories for students to take what they have read and model it on the coordinate plane. This standard happens early with our curriculum map, before the idea of slope is explored. This develops the idea of linear functions, y-intercept, an x-intercept, input and output (which you could easily edit to read independent and dependent variable). Be advised: many of the students I serve are low-level readers, so you may not like my definition or explanation of discrete v. continuou

This is a set of four graphs I created for my students to practice skills such as: domain, range, end behavior, asymptotes, relative & absolute maxiums & minimums, intercepts, intervals of increase & decrease. I found this to be a skill set my kids needed to practice regularly. By the fourth graph, I also threw in some average rate of change problems as well. These sheets could be used as homework, quizzes (what I do--take best two out of four), practice sheets at a station, however you plea

My kids were really struggling with the various transformations, so I created the following graphic/table. We practiced with this sheet--one column at a time, and many kids felt far more confident after just one day. This was presented after they had explored the transformations with a MathLab. They liked it so much and said it helped them so much, they asked for their homework to be in the same format. I saw immediate improvement. I decided to assess this standard in the same format, which

7 problem practice page with key; 7 problem graded assignment (or you could use both for an assessment--cut down cheating, or one for now, one for re-do; 4 problem page (modified, exit, quiz, homework--whatever you like) & a link to the first page as a Google Slide for those of you who like to push work out through Google Classroom.

This is a follow up to my lesson on slope. Kids have seen how to find it from a graph, how to use the formula, or how to simply find slope with the idea of a table. I created this for practice and to hope kids make connections between the slope and the graph. I also hope they can determine if they are better when they use a graph, the table or the formula. Page 1 - I give ordered pairs and space for graph, formula, and table. (try all three) Page 2 - same format as page 1 - just without order

Interactive worksheets -- my newest passion. Students enter answers in cells. If they enter the right answer, the cell turns green. If they enter the wrong answer, the cell turns red. Instant feedback. I love it. I use them in conjunction with Google Classroom, so I can make a copy for each student. The problems are images, and I couldn't get them to line up perfectly, so if you like things to be just so, you may not want this one. It's not terrible, or I wouldn't use it. :) This file onl

Interactive Spreadsheet to be used in conjunction with Google Classroom- students given equations and prompted to fill in a table of values. They receive immediate feedback as to accuracy. Correct answers the font turns green; incorrect the font turns red. As they enter their y-values, a scatter plot graph forms just to the right of the table, so hopefully they make the connection between the equation, table, and graph. There are eight problems in this file as it was created in response

I created this Power Point for students to review from home. All 8th grade teachers in my building ran it on their TV's during homeroom, etc... to help ensure students knew perfect squares 1-20 and perfect cubes 1-10.

Something new I tried this year with GREAT success. I definitely plan to use it again in the future. Created Tables forcing students thought process and work to be organized. Students used these tables for class examples, homework, and warm ups. After several days, I started taking parts of the table away and began coaching on how to recreate on their own--all details and examples included.

When students used to have to do this in 8th grade, they struggled BIG TIME. There were so many steps to remember, things to think about, so I created this chart that guided them every step of the way. After doing homework, warm-ups, etc..., with the graphic organizer they reached a point where they could do it independently and/or were at least capable of recreating it on their own. Yes, I know answers to certain problems can be found much faster in some situations and all steps aren't neces

Students often want to mix up the concepts of converting from standard notation into scientific notation and vice versa. This year, I created and used this graphic organizer instead of notes. The first page has words telling them things they need to consider. The second page has the same organization without the words. I am very pleased with the improvement from year's past. I chose not to put numbers in standard notation to be converted on here as I did not want students to work ahead.

This lesson comes at the end of October in our curriculum, which is great because I refer to it as "Disappearing Variables." This is a quick way to deliver notes in an organized manner allowing time for practice, practice, practice. I even run it off on orange paper to add to the theme.... Kids seem to remember it better just because it was presented uniquely. (also the reason for the Chiller font)

This is a lesson I used when adding and subtracting radials was in the 8th grade math curriculum. Pages 1 & 2 - Explain how I implemented & organized in my classroom. Page 3 - page of a repeated problem with multiple like radicands Page 4 - page of a repeated problem with radicands that need simplifying first Page 5 - page of a repeated problem with radicands that need simplifying first

This is actually one of my favorite tests. I originally found it difficult to challenge & assess my students on concepts such as -even and odd functions -minimum & maximum (relative/local/absolute) -domain -range -intercepts -intervals of increase/decrease -average rate of change ...so I got creative. This test includes pretty much everything -- some multiple choice, short answer, vocabulary, application, and a little critical thinking (2nd page). I use this in Coordinate Algebra, so my stud

I use these interactive spreadsheets frequently so students have immediate feedback and know to seek me out for additional support when cells are turning red. I felt this would be vital in trying to teach dimensional analysis virtually, so I formatted all the conversion factors to provide immediate feedback. Understand: I limited conversion options to avoid formatting nightmares. Good for distance learning when it is difficult to monitor student progress. Before I share with my students in

Simple way for students to practice taking the square root or cube root of perfect squares. Cube root practice includes negative radicands. There are three tabs - square root practice, cube root practice, and mixed practice where students should pay attention to whether they are being asked to calculate a square or cube root.