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Hi Everyone! Are your students sick of worksheet drills of one and two step equations? In this game, students will be able to apply properties of operations as strategies to add, subtract, multiply and divide to solve simple equations. I have been been playing SMART SPOONS with the students in my classroom since 2004. I love this game and decided to modify it for my students to help perfect their skills. I have shared this edutainment game over the years with teachers all throughout the count

Hi Everyone! Do you speak math? Do you want your students to speak math? In this game, students will be able to identify parts of an expression using mathematical terms and view one or more parts of an expression as a single entity. I have been been playing SMART SPOONS with the students in my classroom since 2004. I love this game and decided to modify it for my students to help perfect their skills. I have shared this edutainment game over the years with teachers all throughout the country

This five-page rubric describes in detail what students should do to complete this project. It also has the guidelines for scoring the project in ten different categories. Students will create an original dance to a piece of music using rotations, translations, dilations, and reflections. Transformations will be used to demonstrate movement using their entire body. The dances will then be performed. It has been so wonderful to see the amazing ways the students have put together imaginative dance

Are you starting out the year teaching a Pre-algebra/ Algebra class? Do you just want your learners to be able to speak mathematically no matter what grade level you teach? Here is a very detailed lesson plan to help you begin! This document contains scripted lesson dialogue, probing questions, and detailed instructions to help you mirror the lesson in your own classroom. It is perfect for a new math teacher who needs guidance or a seasoned math teacher looking for innovative ways to introd

This four-page rubric describes in detail what students should do to complete this project. It also has the guidelines for scoring the project in ten different categories. In the quadratic formula project, students write their own song, spoken word piece, or monologue that helps them memorize the quadratic formula. The piece must use all the elements in the correct order of the quadratic formula. The pieces will then be performed. It has been so wonderful to see the amazing ways the students hav

This is a great way to start off the year! I use a math autobiography project to get to know my students and give them a chance to express themselves creatively. The description, questions, and rubric are included!

This four-page rubric describes in detail what students should do to complete this project. It also has the guidelines for scoring the project in four different factors that each have five categories. In the geometry in the real world project, students will need to pick a building, bridge, statue, etc, and conduct research on this item. Using the geometry of the structure, they will write an essay, create a poster, build a model of the structure, and make an oral presentation. It has been so won

This four-page rubric describes in detail what students should do to complete this project. It also has the guidelines for scoring the project in ten different categories. In the street map project, students apply their knowledge of special lines and angles to the street map of the neighborhood in which they live. Once the map has been developed, students identify, define, and label key math concepts. Then finally, the students design a creative way to display the map unrelated to a street or

This fun activity is designed to provide students with practice on how to discover points on a line using the slope definition of rise over run. Students work in pairs to race across a coordinate plane only using moves that support the directions for slope. Through this activity, students learn how a linear equation is formed on a graph and they receive practice with slope that will help them graph lines in slope intercept form. While racing with each other, students will be able to compare

This five-page rubric describes in detail what students should do to complete this project. It also has the guidelines for scoring the project in ten different categories. Everyone has a unique mathematics experience. Math is more than a subject taught within a classroom. Experience can influence current attitudes, feelings, and intentions around mathematics and life goals. The students present their assignment in a creative way. It has been so wonderful to see the amazing ways the students hav

This five-page rubric describes in detail what students should do to complete this project. It also has the guidelines for scoring the project in ten different categories. In the Spanglish project, students create a children's fiction book entirely in Spanish. Their story must incorporate at least 5 different mathematics concepts and at least 20 vocabulary terms from Spanish. It has been so wonderful to see the amazing stories the students have created.

Let's go shopping! In this activity, students have fun doing what they like to do best- BUY TOYS:) Students are arranged in groups of 2 or 3 for this activity. Each group receives this worksheet and a toy catalog. You can obtain free catalogs from any toy store or download an electronic version. Make sure that all groups receive the same catalog. Each group has a spending account of $1000. They decide what they are going to buy from the catalog and document it on the worksheet. If they b

The Black Panther was a hit movie this year, and it’s not a surprise. Cool technology, fast-paced action, and awesome special effectst fun wrapped up into a Marvel comic storyline, filled with mythological heroes and villains, makes for a super-fun-filled, hands-on, kinesthetic math adventure! This lesson studies several main ideas:●      Scale factor, the four transformations including translation, reflection, rotation, and dilation. ●      Holograms, how they are made and how they work. ●

Geometry can be a daunting subject for many students. Imagining shapes and figures and how they fit together in the physical world can be a tough thing to grasp. But if we can make it more concrete and help students wrap their hands, as well as their eyes, around it...we can help make geometry lessons easier to understand. We can help students actually enjoy and look forward to learning! The hit movie, A Wrinkle in Time, based on the book of the same name by Madeleine L’Engle, includes life le

Getting kids engaged in STEM can be a challenge - especially if they don’t have great math-esteem just yet. By using popular culture (superheroes in particular) teachers and parents can get their children involved in complex problem solving without breaking a sweat. In this lesson, students compete in groups to try to secure the Infinity Stones before the villain, Thanos, could use them to destroy half the world’s population! This lesson includes 3 challenges:The Space Stone Challenge (The Tesse