Knowledge Over Grades

Knowledge Checks are a great way to remind you (student) or your students (teacher) of math skills they need to have mastered in order to understand and succeed in current or upcoming lessons and tests. You will receive 25 questions and a list of 11 journal prompts related to low level fraction concepts. This exercise is designed to last 5 days. It can be started on a Monday and end on a Friday, or whatever works for your schedule. The questions get slightly more difficult towards the end. Ma

Teachers, do you ever wonder if your students really understand the concept? Here are 11 questions curated for a deeper level of thinking that encourages wonder and perplexity. Use the questions to check, guide and support your students' understanding of the concept of fractions that touch on the ideas of iteration, partition, identifying fractional space and length, equivalent fractions and whole numbers. Included is a suggested answer key, a full sheet of questions for you and the student and

Lost in Translation? Math Translation, that is... Download my Algebraic Translation Guide to help your students easily and quickly identify words and phrases in English that translate to math operations when solving word problems. All in one table, the most common words used for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with be viewed as examples, verbal word forms, and Algebraic translations. With this guide handy, they'll be on your way to math fluency! This guide is a digital download, s

Many students are missing arithmetic and pre-Algebra prerequisites needed to solve certain Algebra problems. It’s hard not knowing what you need to know in order to tackle the problem. That’s why I’ve created this guide that shows your students what they need to know before they solve the math problem in front of them. In this guide, you will see the prerequisites of the following topics: Linear EquationsSystems of EquationsGraphing a FunctionOperations on PolynomialsRational Expressions and