Helping Students Learn Math

These notes are ideal for teaching FOIL/box method. Notes include both word to be printed for student use and a set of notes to use on the Smartboard. Answers are also included (both using FOIL and Box Method). Notes start with a bell ringer involving distributive property, introduces new vocabulary and then gives guided/independent practice.

This set of Cornell / AVID notes can help students answer higher order thinking questions and enhance their note-taking skills. The first set of notes helps students understand how to solve inequalities and graph them on a number line. The second set of notes helps students graph inequalities and see the differences between how equations and inequalities are graphed. The questioning scaffolds to cover all necessary information students need to be successful. These notes are editable.

This introduction to what exponential functions are is a great way for students to see how it differs from a linear or quadratic function. Students are able to take guided notes and see the differences in exponential tables and equations.