Master Mathematics

This resource includes 40 news articles, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers or reading minutes. This resource is a great opportunity for students to practice comprehension skills and reading informational text. This resource provides a connection between reading, mathemat

This activity includes 40 problems to practice the parts of an algebraic expression. This activity is set up in a quiz, quiz, trade format but it could also be used for a partner activity or for flash cards. Students will identify the terms, like terms, coefficients and constants for each expression. This KAGAN cooperative learning strategy is a student favorite. A Microsoft Word Document that is editable and a PDF file are included.

This resource includes 10 news articles, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This bundle is great for February and March! This resource includes two articles for Pi Day, two articles for Black History Month, an article regarding March Madness and then five other articles with questions for students to answer. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. This is a great resource for

This BUNDLE was created for career exploration activities. This BUNDLE includes 11 lessons. Four lessons are movie video guides and six lessons are Math in the News Articles. Each lesson includes questions for the students, a vocabulary activity and other resources for the teacher to choose from. I have included my most popular movie guide for the Speed Cuber's Documentary on Netflix. This is a great video and lesson plan for a movie with a great message on inclusion. I have also included

This product was designed with Building Thinking Classrooms in mind. This resource was designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a lesson on introducing or developing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of integers. The lesson begins with rote integer operations and ends with a word problems and and open ended discussion problem. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Thin slicing: C

This is a lesson on circle graphs and distribution. It can be used to compare two sets of data. I usually do the M & M activity together as a group and then have the students complete the Skittles investigation on their own. This is a great constructed response type of activity because it requires the students to use a lot of different common core standards. The students are able to make a lot of mathematical connections in this activity. This is a great Halloween activity to do with stud

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article about a study that was down on 4th down conversions. The statistics show that if coaches tried to go for it on 4th downs they would eventually score more points. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers

This resource was designed for extra practice for Multiplying and Dividing Integers and Rational Numbers. This resource includes pixel arts, lessons, exit tickets and daily warm ups. There are a total of seven lessons included for use of Multiplying and Dividing Integers.

This activity is set up for practice converting rates. Some of the problems involve converting one unit and others require students to convert both units. This activity can be done in quiz, quiz, trade format in groups or pairs. This KAGAN Strategy is a student favorite! Formats: A Microsoft Word Document that is editable and a PDF file are included.

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article math anxiety and how to overcome it. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. I have also included a worksheet on identifying text features in a news article. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers or reading minutes. This resource is a gre

This activity includes 30 percent of change quiz, quiz, trade cards. There are percent of increase, percent of decrease and percent of error problems included. I have also included an answer sheet for students to show their work if needed. I have also included an interactive notebook page with the examples I used in my class. I have also included the worksheet I used for a guessing activity to practice percent error. The students really enjoyed all of the activities! This KAGAN strategy is a

This assignment includes 6 sales tax problems. I ask the students to meet with a different partner each time. Each one has a different mistake that I notice students will make. Students are asked to explain the mistake and then fix the error. On the last page, I ask students to create their own sales tax problem and then have a different partner solve their problem. Then, the students check their answer together.

This resource includes video questions and vocabulary for a Youtube video on the connection between Homebuilding and Mathematics. Two students work with the Make it Right foundation to see how math is connecting to the renovation of houses in New Orleans. The students are shown how math is connected to the building of solar panels and making a cement walkway in front of the home. This would be a great resource for a substitute for a mathematics class. This resource includes a Google Document

This lesson is designed to coincide with the Course 2 Glencoe 7th Grade Mathematics curriculum. This is Lesson 1-9 on Direct Variation. This lesson will explain what a direct variation is and how it compares with proportional relationships. This lesson includes what a direct variation looks like in the graph, table and equation. This lesson also includes some help with the vocabulary in the lesson. The vocabulary words include; direct variation, constant of proportionality and proportional

This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article regarding various animals and their use of mathematics. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math centers. or reading minutes. This resource is a great opportunity for students to practice comprehension skills

This notebook lesson is designed for the Mathematics 7 Glencoe series Course 2. This lesson is titled proportional and nonproportional relationships. This lesson includes the beginning part of the lesson and a slide for students to compare the difference between proportional and nonproportional relationships.

This product was designed with Building Thinking Classrooms in mind. This resource was designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a lesson on introducing or developing division of integers. The lesson begins with dividing integers and ends with a word problem and dividing more than two integers. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Thin slicing: Copy the problems and answers back to back and cut t

This product was designed with Building Thinking Classrooms in mind. This resource was designed for a low floor high ceiling assignment or thin sliced lesson plan. This could be used for a lesson on introducing or developing multiplication of integers. The lesson begins with multiplying integers and ends with a word problem and multiplying more than two integers. There are also evaluating expression problems. This would be a great activity for a Formative Assessment and/or Exit Ticket. Thin slic

This resource is great for an exit slip or warm-up. There is a week's worth of examples to use with students. This resource is great for adding rational numbers and subtracting rational numbers. This resource would also be great to use for a constructed response. This resource was designed to encourage my students to work harder at answering MSTEP and NWEA style questions and to justify their answers. Formats: There is a Microsoft Word Document available for edit. There is also a PDF file inclu

This resource includes video questions and vocabulary for a Youtube video on the connection between the Entrepreneurship and Mathematics. Four middle school students present their products to the Sharks on the television series Shark Tank. The students are provided feedback from the Sharks. Then, the teachers on the video explain the math involved in presenting their products to the Sharks. This would be a great resource for a substitute for a mathematics class. This resource includes a Micr