Eddie McCarthy

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning what makes 2 events independent. After slowly working through a problem about rolling a die and choosing a card, they discover that they can multiply probabilities when working with these compound events. They then attempt problems involving picking marbles from a bag. Next, they learn about dependent events, and finally, mutually exclusive events. The last 2 pages are a copy of the key.

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning the steps to solving absolute value inequalities. There are 2 scenarios: greater than signs or less than signs. In order to remember how to solve these, they are presented with the mnemonic device GORLAND! (Greater than = or, less than = and) Then they solve a few problems using this new word they have just learned. Finally, they are shown examples of a few problems where there would be no solution.

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning what IS and IS NOT a monomial. They then multiply some monomials in order to discover the rule: We can add their exponents. After solving a few problems, they do the same thing with dividing monomials to discover that rule: Subtracting the exponents. Finally, students are shown a proof/explanation as to why a number raised to the power of 0 equals 1. *This lesson is definitely just an intro to multipl

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students start off by learning how to find 10% of a number, and they use this to find 20%, 30%, 40%, and other multiples of 10%. After noticing that 50% is half of a number and 25% is a fourth, they then learn how to find 5% of a number. This allows them to find 35%, 45%, etc. Finally, students do some real world math by estimating percents of numbers and approximating a couple tips at a restaurant. The last 2 pages are a copy o

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning what mean, median, and mode are, and then they find an example of each. After solving a few more problems, students learn some tricks to remembering what each term means. Finally, they attempt a few word problems about basketball, crime rates, and test scores. The last 2 pages are a copy of the key.

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning the rule for negative exponents, followed by a simple proof/explanation of why. After learning that 1 raised to any number equals 1, they begin working with negative exponents. They are shown how to rewrite negative exponent expressions with positive exponents, and vice versa. Next, they are challenged to rewrite fractions as expressions with negative exponents. For example, they see how to rewrite 1/2

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class, with a fun activity at the end. Students begin by learning what a polynomial is and what makes something a monomial, binomial, and trinomial. They then learn what makes something NOT a polynomial. After learning about "degree" and "leading coefficient", students learn how to put polynomials into standard form. The end of the second page is an introduction to algebra tiles, and the final page is a fun activity to help students ge

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning what exponentiation really means. They are shown that exponentiation is shorthand for repeated multiplication in the same way that multiplication is shorthand for repeated addition. Next, they learn terms such as base, exponent, and power. Before solving any problems, they are taught what it means to have 1 or 0 as an exponent, as students frequently confuse these basic properties. Then they learn how

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. The first half of the lesson is about compound inequalities involving the word AND. They first learn that x > 7 and x < 11 can be written as 7 < x < 11. Then they learn how to solve and graph these. Later, they learn about compound inequalities with the word OR and how these differ. This lesson should most likely be 2 separate days. The last 4 pages are a copy of the key. Related activity: Solving Compound Inequaliti

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class, with an activity at the end. Students begin by reviewing the distributive property and then using this to multiply polynomials by monomials. Next, they learn how to model these products with algebra tiles. They then work on taking it a step further by finding products and then combining like terms. At the end of the guided notes, there is a quick intro to solving equations with algebra tiles. Finally, there is an activity/assign

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by solving 2 inequalities that involve multiplication and division. While checking their answers, they realize that one answer they got is actually wrong. From this, they arrive at the conclusion that we must flip the sign when multiplying or dividing both sides by a negative number. After solving a few inequalities, they then translate and solve a few more. The last 2 pages are a copy of the key. Related activity

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by investigating what it means to raise a monomial to an exponent. From this, they discover a rule: We can multiply their exponents! After solving some problems, they explore what can go wrong when working with negative bases if we are not careful. Next, they take it a step farther by working with monomials and their coefficients, or "power of a product." The final part of the lesson assumes they have learned about

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class, with an algebra tile activity at the end. Students begin by learning how to add polynomials. They are taught how to model this sum using algebra tiles, and then they find a few more sums. Next, they do the same thing, except with differences of polynomials. After the guided notes is a 2 page algebra tile activity/assignment/assessment. The last 2 pages are a copy of the key for the guided notes. Related activity: Polynomial Ope

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning how to multiply binomials, and then they learn an easy way to remember the steps: FOIL. After finding a few products, students learn how model multiplication of binomials with algebra tiles. Finally, students practice multiply binomials by trinomials. The last 2 pages are a copy of the key. Related activity: Polynomial Operations - Word Scramble Activity

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. Students begin by learning exactly what it means to square a binomial: It does NOT mean just square both terms! After squaring two binomials, they discover the general rule for squaring sums and differences. After using this to square some more binomials, they begin multiplying a sum and its difference. Again, they discover a new rule and then practice some problems. Finally, 2 of the 3 rules that they have learned are modeled b

This lesson is meant to be used as guided notes for a whole class. The lesson begins with a review of what each inequality sign means. They then learn how to graph inequalities on a number line. Next, students solve some inequalities just as they would equations. In the middle of the lesson, the class will learn about phrases such as "at least", "no more than", and so on. Finally, they translate and solve 2 inequalities and then attempt to solve 2 inequalities that begin with variables on both s

This lesson is to be used as guided notes for a whole class. The lesson begins by reviewing what a "factor" of a number is and uses this to introduce prime and composite numbers. Then students learn divisibility rules/tricks for 2, 3, and 5. After learning how to decide whether a number is prime or composite, they attempt some examples. Finally, they learn the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic and how to write prime factorizations by making factor trees. The last 2 pages are a copy of the ke