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Perfect for Algebra I! Keep your students’ neurons charged with this engaging collaborative activity. After writing, graphing, and converting point-slope equations, your students will be more familiar and flexible with this form of linear function. Post-activity assessment included! In this roundtable activity, groups of 3-4 students are each given the description of a different line, and four tasks to complete. After each task, the students rotate papers clockwise before beginning the next

How have Olympic swimming speeds changed over time? Are male and female swimmers getting faster at the same rate? Is a linear model a reasonable way to predict how fast future gold medalists will swim the 100-meter freestyle? In "Swimming in Scatter Plots," students will construct and analyze scatter plots using 100 years of Olympic swimming data. Half the class will have data from the Men’s 100-meter freestyle, and the other half will have data from the Women’s 100-meter freestyle. Then, pai

***This product includes a SmartNotebook file.*** Ghosts in the Graveyard is a spookily fun review game for Algebra I, great for Halloween but can be played at any time. Teams will solve linear equations that have been "carved" into tombstone cards. Teams earn ghost icons for their correct answers, and place those ghosts into their choice of graveyards on the SmartBoard. At the end of the game, a surprise twist reveals that different point values have been buried in each graveyard. After ap

Engage your students in understanding a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem! Using scrapbook paper, this presentation will walk students through the process of making a Pythagorean paper puzzle that becomes a visual proof of the famous theorem. Can students rearrange the puzzle pieces to show how it all works? Can they explore the algebra behind the proof? Each finished product makes a colorful square tile. The tiles can be combined into a bulletin board display that resembles a paper quilt.

The experienced middle school student quickly grows weary of "getting to know you" activities and "favorites" surveys, especially when given these tasks by five different teachers in the first week of school! With some funny, unexpected, and open-ended prompts, this survey goes beyond favorite color and musical artist. I have found this little assessment to give me lots of information about students and their character, including level of anxiety, sense of humor, creativity, adventurousness,

Use this quick cut-and-paste activity to get your algebra students thinking about how absolute value inequalities relate to compound inequalities. Cut and sort 12 cards depicting the four general absolute value inequalities (greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to.) Match with the equivalent graph and compound inequality, then paste the results onto the provided worksheet. This flexible activity can be used in a variety of classroom formats and student groupin

Shh! No talking! Silent Sums is a cooperative skill practice activity for middle school students who are learning to solve two-step equations with rational numbers. All equations are in the form px + q = r. Each game sheet consists of four equations, with the first three rounds focusing on integers and the last three involving rational numbers. This product includes... 1) Cover Page 2) Objectives, standards, and set-up instructions. 3) How to play, variations, and implementation ideas. 4

***This product is a SmartNotebook file! Please ensure you have SmartNotebook software before purchasing.*** Strategy-style board game meets review session meets interactive technology! "Obstruction" is an engaging and fast-paced way to spice up your review day. You provide a set of 15-20 questions, power up the SmartBoard, and lace up your sneakers, because you'll be dashing around the room checking answers and giving feedback. If your students are like mine, they will be zipping to the S

What’s equivalent to clock(work + wise)? Well, clockwork + clockwise, of course! This set of ten expressions will give students a chance to do some really silly mathematics while engaging in the process of expanding an expression in the form a(b+c) with the distributive property. Treat each word as you would a variable, and boom! You're doing Wacky WordMath. Instructions, standards, student worksheet, and answer key included. Enjoy!

Shh! No talking! Silent Sums is a cooperative skill practice activity for middle school students who are learning to find the slope of a line. Each game sheet consists of four problems, with the first three rounds focusing on identifying slope from a graph and the last three rounds finding slope from two points. Try before you buy! The preview includes full instructions and one round of the activity to try with your class. This product includes... 1) Cover Page 2) Objectives, standards,

Looking for a worksheet alternative to practice multiplying binomials? Have fidgety students who need to move around the classroom? Try the Feedback Loop! This activity consists of 8 half-fold cards to be posted around the classroom, creating a "loop". Each card has a binomial product on the front, which students will copy and expand on their recording sheets. Walk to the next card, lift the flap, and there's the solution to the last problem. Your students will work their way around the l