Exploring Mathematics

Nine real-world scenario percent application stations. Includes examples of tips, commission, markup, discount, and tax. Questions vary between asking students to solve for the percent change amount and total. Also included in the zip file is a worksheet for groups to use for their work and answers and a powerpoint with slides listing four student roles at each station. (Students number before starting and keep their number even as they move to different stations.) I write correct answers on

This file includes 36 cards with terms (constant and variables) written on them. Hand students a term as they walk in the door and begin class by having them sort themselves into groups by finding people 'like' them. Once students are sorted, have a class discussion about like terms and introduce vocabulary such as 'constant' and 'coefficient'. Also in this file is a 3-slide powerpoint presentation. Slide 2 includes all of the definitions that have just been discussed (variable, coefficient,

To help students organize information and begin to study for the test at the end of our expressions and equations unit, I created this list of 'info to know'. The list consists of 19 pieces of information that students need to know to be able to solve the types of problems on the test (identifying coefficients and constants, simplifying numerical and algebraic expressions, solving one-step through multi-step equations, and writing equations from story problems). However, the 19 items have seve

I have found that students struggle with writing equations from story problems. To help scaffold this skill, I first have them reverse it by writing story problems to correspond with variables and equations that I give them. Included in the zip file is a 5-slide powerpoint that I use to introduce and practice the topic. It starts with a systems of equations story problem, and we work together as a class to write the corresponding equations. I use this slide to introduce the concept of defi