Mathterpieces

Step-by-step PowerPoint slides (converted to PDF) included to project during activity. This interactive student notebook foldable includes three ways to express a linear equation: equation, table/chart, and graph. And it does so for both proportional and nonproportional relationships.

Let the Power Rangers help your students learn the rules of powers! I also have FREE coordinating posters available. Step-by-step PowerPoint (also included in PDF format) included to project during activity. This interactive student notebook foldable includes product of powers, quotient of powers, power of a power, power of a product, zero exponents, and negative exponents.

Step-by-step PowerPoint slides (converted to PDF) included to project during activity. This interactive student notebook foldable includes four ways to think about adding/subtracting signed numbers: on a number line, using money, who's "not dancing," and by grouping.

Step-by-step PowerPoint (also included in PDF format) included to project during activity. This interactive student notebook foldable includes the steps to solving equations: distribute, combine like terms, move variables to one side, move constants to the other side, and divide by coefficient or multiply by reciprocal. I teach these lessons in the opposite order, from the end to the beginning, so it takes five lessons/days before the foldable is complete. This is why the PowerPoint goes in the

I have the kids add one of these reference pages to the front of their journals. With the intermediate grades, I used Problem-Solving Strategies; with the middle schoolers, I use Heuristics. Throughout the year, I challenge them with higher-level thinking activities and we talk about "what to do when you're stuck." These pages help guide them through that process.

Step-by-step PowerPoint (also included in PDF format) included to project during activity. This interactive student notebook foldable diagrams real numbers (rational/integers/whole/natural and irrational) in a Venn diagram-style format.

I have the kids add one of these reference pages to the front of their journals. With the intermediate grades, I used Problem-Solving Strategies; with the middle schoolers, I use Heuristics. Throughout the year, I challenge them with higher-level thinking activities and we talk about "what to do when you're stuck." These pages help guide them through that process.

Step-by-step PowerPoint (also included in PDF format) included to project during activity. This interactive student notebook foldable includes four ways to express linear functions: table, words, equation, and graph.