Manipulating Math Minds

This file contains all you need for a fun filled MONTH of REAL WORLD Math, IT IS A BUNDLE OF TWO PRODUCTS THAT I CURRENTLY HAVE FOR SALE! By purchasing the bundle you will save 10%. The first file is a complete unit on maintaining a checkbook: understanding parts of checks and deposit slips, writing checks and deposit slips, keeping a checkbook register, and balancing a bank statement. The second file contains all you need for two to three fun filled weeks of REAL WORLD Math. It contain

This file contains all you need for a fun filled week of REAL WORLD Math, This is a complete unit on maintaining a checkbook: understanding parts of checks and deposit slips, writing checks and deposit slips, keeping a checkbook register, and balancing a bank statement. I usually do this project after our state testing, and my students get very interested, as they are headed to High School the very next year. This would be a great unit for young adults, as well as homeschoolers. If you like t

This file contains all you need for two to three fun filled weeks of REAL WORLD Math. It contains 4 action filled PowerPoint presentations (over 50 slides in total), and all supporting documents for students to complete each phase of the project (27 pages). This is a complete unit that focusses on creating a household budget, and maintinaing a positive balance at all times. Students will be required to calculate monthly car payments, devise a month's worth of menus, and lastly they will compl

This file includes everything you need for a full week of REAL WORLD Math! To begin this weeklong activity, I teach a lesson on converting between fractions, decimals, and percents. The following day, I teach how to calculate, and the impact of, discounts and sales tax. The notes, practice worksheets, and keys are included for both of these introductory lessons. Once these two background lessons have been mastered, the real fun begins. On days three and four, I have SALES signs posted all

When spring is in the air, I cannot help but think about BASEBALL!!! However, we still have several months of school remaining. So why not combine the two? This file contains 2 baseball themed quadratic equations worksheets. The first one requires students to test for factorability of quadratic equations by using the discriminant. The second requires students to use the quadratic formula to solve quadratic equations. And as always, I have included both solution keys. Together, they serve

This is a very versatile unit, It can be used early in the year as an introduction to TI 83/84 graphing calculators for Algebra I students. Or it can be used later in the year after state testing, as preparation for the upcoming year (this is how I have used it for years). My 8th grade students are very restless and lack much interest in school after state testing, So, I break out the calculators and they are in total AWE! So, it serves as a nice break. This file contains all you need f

This file contains all you need for a fun filled week of REAL WORLD Math. This is a complete unit on simple and compound interest. This would be a great unit for young adults, as well as homeschoolers. It contains 4 units that I sell individually as described below. Purchasing this bundle saves you over 30% off individual items. Interest Foldables - 2 separate foldables used to introduce simple and compound interest. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Simple-and-Compound-Interest-Fo

Solving equations is a skill that has to be mastered for students to perform basic algebraic operations in later years. While it seems so logical to me, my students often struggled with what steps are to be taken first (+, -, x, ÷), even though it is just order of operations…in reverse. A few years ago, I started using “Equation Estates” to teach this, and the confusion no longer exists. We even had a little fun along the way! I teach JH, and they can TOTALLY relate to this set up! The ba

This file contains easy to follow class notes, as well as coordinating worksheets and answer keys for translations, reflections, dilations, and rotations as well as a stations review activity to use after the unit has been taught. The notes and the worksheet start with concrete examples displayed on graphs. Then, they progress to more abstract problems without graphs. STAAR, Core Standards, transformations, geometry, dilation, translation, reflection, rotation I have also posted coordinating

Solving equations is a skill that has to be mastered for students to perform basic algebraic operations in later years. While it seems so logical to me, my students often struggled with what steps are to be taken first (+, -, x, ÷), even though it is just order of operations…in reverse. A few years ago, I started using “Equation Estates” to teach this, and the confusion no longer exists. We even had a little fun along the way! I teach JH, and they can TOTALLY relate to this set up! The ba

This file contains 2 interest foldables (that are sold in other bundles in my store). One is simple interest using the formula I = PRT. The second is compound interest using the formula A = P(1+r)^t. And as always, I have included both solution keys. Together, they serve as a nice introduction to interest including vocabulary, proper use of the formulas and problems that require students to calculate just interest as well as ending account balances. These would pair well with the self-chec

Spring is an awesome time of year, and when I usually teach my financial literacy unit. So why not make a few worksheets that combine the two? This file contains 2 self check interest worksheets(that are sold in other bundles in my store). One is simple interest using the formula I = PRT. The second is compound interest using the formula A = P(1+r)^t. And as always, I have included both solution keys. Together, they serve as a nice introduction to interest, as well as an appropriately timed

Solving equations is a skill that has to be mastered for students to perform basic algebraic operations in later years. While it seems so logical to me, my students often struggled with what steps are to be taken first (+, -, x, ÷), even though it is just order of operations…in reverse. A few years ago, I started using “Equation Estates” to teach this, and the confusion no longer exists. We even had a little fun along the way! I teach JH, and they can TOTALLY relate to this set up! The ba

This file is a BUNDLE of TWO of my posts (sold at a discount if purchased from this post). It contains both styles of the Geometry Notebook as well as the 12 worksheet and keys for the Geometry unit (approx 3 weeks). Each worksheet has a few basic cumputational problems, and concludes with one or two VERY rigorous multi-step application problems, Each application problem has at least one measurement conversion, and usually involves money as well. I created these this year, and by the end of the

Solving equations is a skill that has to be mastered for students to perform basic algebraic operations in later years. While it seems so logical to me, my students often struggled with what steps are to be taken first (+, -, x, ÷), even though it is just order of operations…in reverse. A few years ago, I started using “Equation Estates” to teach this, and the confusion no longer exists. We even had a little fun along the way! I teach JH, and they can TOTALLY relate to this set up! The ba

This file contains 2 simple interest components (that are sold in other bundles in my store). One is a foldable to guide the students through using the formula I=PRT. The second is a self checking riddle WS that covers the same topic. And as always, I have included both solution keys. Together, they serve as a nice introduction to simple interest including vocabulary, proper use of the formula and problems that require students to calculate just interest as well as ending account balances.

This file contains 12 worksheet and keys for the Geometry unit (approx 3 weeks). Each worksheet has a few basic cumputational problems, and concludes with one or two VERY rigorous multi-step application problems, Each application problem has at least one measurement conversion, and usually involves money as well. I created these this year, and by the end of the unit my students were begging for "easy" HW. When they told me that, I knew I had accomplished what I set out to do, help prepare th

This file contains two formats of a foldable type notebook for students to use while working through the junior high geometry unit. It begins with perimeter, works through area and surface area, followed by volume. It concludes with dimension changes and scale factor. The basic shapes and formulas are on each page, and can be completed with examples chosen by the teacher. Directions for printing the pages, and book construction of both types are included. This is a great way to keep three

Solving equations is a skill that has to be mastered for students to perform basic algebraic operations in later years. While it seems so logical to me, my students often struggled with what steps are to be taken first (+, -, x, ÷), even though it is just order of operations…in reverse. A few years ago, I started using “Equation Estates” to teach this, and the confusion no longer exists. We even had a little fun along the way! I teach JH, and they can TOTALLY relate to this set up! The ba

Solving equations is a skill that has to be mastered for students to perform basic algebraic operations in later years. While it seems so logical to me, my students often struggled with what steps are to be taken first (+, -, x, ÷), even though it is just order of operations…in reverse. A few years ago, I started using “Equation Estates” to teach this, and the confusion no longer exists. We even had a little fun along the way! I teach JH, and they can TOTALLY relate to this set up! The ba