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Transformations Introduction 8th Grade | Notes and Practice Interactive NotebookWhat is an interactive notebook?Interactive notebooks are a great way for students to keep notes and practice examples in an organized way. What is included?This is a one page foldable I give to my students to introduce them to the topic of transformations. Students fold the paper in half to create a booklet that can be glued into their interactive journals. How do I use this?First thing you want to do is print it w

If your students are anything like mine, there are plenty that will have a difficult time picking up all the "rules" of solving equations. My students in particular get especially confused when they start solving before they've simplified both sides–they get through the distribution just fine, but then they just don't know what to do with all those extra terms! Most of the time they just start moving terms around from one side to the other which results in extra steps and opportunities for mista

This is a set of notes to be glued or taped into an interactive math journal. Notes include the methods for adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and simplifying square roots as required by the 8th grade common core standards. Notes for Teachers: My students use these in their interactive math journals. We use these notes over three days: 1) Adding & subtracting square roots, 2) Multiplying & Dividing square roots, and 3) Simplifying square roots. There are two sets of practice pages incl

This is the first page I have my students put in their journals for our unit on exponents. It's a great reference for them for those very simple rules like the zero rule, or when they forget what expanded form means. There are two sets of notes per page, and the second page is two sets of the answer key. Be careful not to print the answer key for your students! (Unless you want them to just have all the info already written in for them.) Print just the first page, and only half of what you nee