Engaging Everyone

Students will be given a check register and a statement from the bank and use them to reconcile the two.

When coaching teachers with a goal to improve classroom engagement and achievement, classroom management is often a major impediment to that process. In his book Coaching Classroom Management, Randy Sprick puts forth several basic tools that coaches can use. Kagan Cooperative Learning has also been shown to dramatically increase student engagement. The Classroom Behavior Coaching Form was developed during my time as a behavior coach as a simple, streamlined way to observe in classrooms whe

Help engage kids in practicing simplifying expressions with the Distributive Property. All coefficients are integers. Each student gets a bingo card, and the problems are presented on a Google Slide presentation linked in the document you download.

This project asks students to think of all the things they know about math (especially geometry) and use it to describe various pictures. Students are asked to address shapes, symmetry, angles, transformations, and more. I am using it as a semester two final project after a semester of Geometry lessons. It could work for many age groups - only your expectations would change. Easily adapt by allowing students to pick the ones they want, the ones you want or all. Want an extra challenge? Have

Great way to help students organize their Quadratic Formula. Print full page, insert in a sleeve and let them use it over & over to solve problems.

Self-checking Sheets activity to allow students to practice finding Pythagorean Triples.

This lists all numbers through 200 with their complete list of factor pairs. Perfect square numbers are shaded yellow to differentiate further. Useful for GCF, polynomial factoring and more. Especially helpful for any kid whose basic facts are a struggle. Print back and front, two to a page for an easy reference sheet for students.

Easy to use graphic organizer for recording mapping of ordered pairs. Includes a slide deck with a key.

Use these mats to help manage team, partner and Cooperative Learning structures. Added icons for face and shoulder partners help non-readers understand who they are partnered with.

Tired of having kids not know their multiplication tables well enough to find factors? This lists all factors of numbers up to 45 so they can easily tell what they are. Need more? Check out my Factor Pairs that goes up to 200!