Eric Jayne

Students have difficulty using protractors to measure angles. This activity is a great starting point for teaching students to use protractors because it takes away the lining up piece (where they struggle) and only requires them to correctly read the angle. Students will also practice drawing an angle using a protractor. This make a great introductory activity before having students actually use a protractor.

The common core standards place an increased focus on writing in response to reading. Students need to incorporate ideas from texts with their own ideas to answer questions related to the text. One way to assist students with this task is through the A.C.E. strategy (Answering the Question, Citing Information from the Text, and Explaining and/or Extending their Thinking). This organizer helps students focus on the individual components of A.C.E. It helps them see which areas they need to wor

Students need to be taught how to take notes. Many of them find note-taking frustrating because they don't know how to do it efficiently and effectively. I made this sheet of note-taking tips as a student resource to go along with my note-taking instruction.

One of the areas that students seem to struggle with the most is problem-solving. This download contains my basic plan to approaching problem-solving. It's a plan that has produced solid results for me. Included in the download are the following: a definition of problem-solving from the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics that I use as a poster in my room; an explanation of using a 4-step approach to problem-solving (I send this to parents); a student planner that my students use eve