Middle-High Math and More

This is a Google Slides product with a total of 365 slides. There are 200 actual warm-ups plus answer slides where applicable, and they are not your traditional, curriculum-aligned warm-ups. I figure since I have my students for 80 minutes, I want to start them out with something that gets them thinking but isn't as predictable and boring as a recap of yesterday's lesson or some prerequisite skills or whatever my principal would rather I do (hehehe.) So here's what's included. For starters,

These three worksheets, labeled Part One, Two, and Three, get progressively more involved and difficult. Part One asked students to understand the parts and pieces of exponential functions; the starting value, the growth or decay factor, and the time interval. It also tests their ability to understand why, how, when, and what to add to or subtract from "1" in order to find the growth or decay factor. I use this first worksheet as a quiz or graded classwork to gauge where my students are after

**I have a new listing for this product in a different version. You can still get the PDF version here, but if you'd like a Google Doc version, go HERE. I think the Fermi Project is as much fun for teachers as it is for those students that embrace it. Fermi questions are ridiculous math-based questions to which nobody really wants to know the answer, but that's half of their charm. The other half is that this is a REALLY good skill to teach our students. It requires problem solving skills,

**Please note that this version of this resource is a PDF version with a link to make a digital copy. There is also a Google Doc version of this resource HERE that bypasses the need for a PDF and gives you an instantly editable version of this resource. (You can also read all the reviews for this resource by clicking the above link.)This project may never be as popular as my project called The Fermi Project, but this will probably be one of my more creative projects. I've been using a PBL styl

For our section on translating written algebraic phrases and sentences into number-variable form, I had trouble finding a list or table that did a good job of explaining how to use the common phrases and keywords that students encounter. Some phrases, like "less than," are turn-around phrases that mean you have to write the end of the phrase first, and these turn-around phrases were scattered in with all the common keywords like "sum," "times," "minus," and "equals." Having answered four milli

I used this for the first time this year and I REALLY liked it. We have a very short statistics unit in Math 1 in North Carolina, and I have always hated that unit because it just feels like an afterthought at the end of the year when the kids are as burnt out as you are. But this worked WELL!! The way it works is this: the student picks two topics where they can find at least 20 pieces of data. Examples include population of states east of the Mississippi or the number of points scored in

This product is a Google Slides presentation with 100 Real World Word Problems with answers for use with any age teenager and some pre-teens (and most adults, to be honest.) This is by far the biggest and most time-consuming resource I've ever made for my classes, but it's also the most valuable. I teach mostly students who have not passed a math EOG in years, as well as EC Inclusion and ESL classes at a Title 1 school, so a good number of the kids I teach will never go to college. So I set o

The Fermi Project is as much fun for teachers as it is for those students that embrace it. Fermi questions are ridiculous math-based questions to which nobody really wants to know the answer, but that's half of their charm. The other half is that this is a REALLY good skill to teach our students. It requires problem solving skills, critical thinking skills, research skills, but overall the major skill therein is making educated guesses and how we learn to truly make them EDUCATED guesses. And th

I taught an Occupational Course of Study class this year and developed this project for them to learn and/or review area and perimeter while also introducing them to scale factors, angles, geometric design, and even the skills necessary to create a sales document on the computer. Please see the preview to see all that's included in the project. Even though I designed this to be a hands-on project for high school kids on a third to fifth grade level, this could easily be incorporated for middle

This product is all about Naming Polynomials. Included with this resource is a definitive table that lists the degree of a polynomial in one column and the number of terms in another column with easy to understand directions on how to name polynomials based on the two aspects of every polynomial name. There is also a practice worksheet with 17 polynomials to name and a Naming Polynomials Quiz where students must fill in the original table where they first learned the names of the degrees and t

This is one of 7 or 8 vocabulary worksheet and quiz resources I have developed for the entire Math 1 curriculum. You will find the others in my store. It's very straightforward with no bells and whistles, but I'm of the opinion that vocabulary quizzes don't need a whole lot of that. There is a worksheet with 14 words (listed below) with blanks beside them for writing the definition. What I did last year was print this worksheet out on both sides of a piece of paper. On one side, the student rese

The majority of the students I teach have never heard of a parabola or a quadratic function before we start our quadratics unit, but since word problems are universally assigned no matter the level of familiarity, I set out to accomplish a number of different goals with these. I wanted a mix of easy and mildly difficult. I wanted some with whole number answers and some with decimals. I wanted some with very straightforward questions such as "When does the ball hit the ground?" and some with m

The Vacation Budget Project asks your students to plan a trip to the city of their choice anywhere in the world for one week. Starting from how they will get there to where they will stay and how much they will spend when they are there, the Vacation Budget Project introduces students to vacation planning, money management, travel research, budgeting, critical thinking, problem solving, and even percentages. It is a very well-rounded project that contains an abundance of real world skills, all

Please note that this is two versions in one resource. If you prefer a simple printable PDF, you get it. If you would like a version to "Make a Copy" on Google Docs so that you can edit or add to Google Classroom for your students, you simply go to the very last page of the resource and click the link.**Please note that this version of this resource is a PDF version with a link to make a digital copy. There is also a Google Doc version of this resource HERE that bypasses the need for a PDF and g

Please note that this is two versions in one resource. If you prefer a simple printable PDF, you get it. If you would like a version to "Make a Copy" on Google Docs so that you can edit or add to Google Classroom for your students, you simply go to the very last page of the resource and click the link.This is one of 7 or 8 vocabulary worksheet and quiz resources I have developed for the entire Math 1 curriculum. You will find the others in my store. It's very straightforward with no bells and wh

Please note that this is two versions in one resource. If you prefer a simple printable PDF, you get it. If you would like a version to "Make a Copy" on Google Docs so that you can edit or add to Google Classroom for your students, you simply go to the very last page of the resource and click the link. This is one of 7 or 8 vocabulary worksheet and quiz resources I have developed for the entire Math 1 curriculum. You will find the others in my store. It's very straightforward with no bells and w

For Math 1 here in North Carolina, our first unit is titled Equations and Introduction to Functions. We decided as a team this year that it would be a good idea to not only pretest, but to also see what kind of catch up we'd need to play with some of our students who come to high school ill-prepared for the curriculum. So I made this 4 page worksheet that covers seven topics that they definitely should have gotten in middle school and they will definitely need to succeed in Unit 1 of Math 1.

The first page of this resource is filled with information and "Important Notes" about Half Life. It was written with all learners in mind, so it contains only the necessary academic language until students get comfortable with the topic and processes necessary to understand the basics of Half Life. Notes include why elements are used in half life problems, why there is often a number attached to an element's name, and how to determine the time interval when dealing with seconds or minutes. Th

This worksheet is solely about the Explicit form of sequences for both Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences. They are mixed in together and include a table with ten cells to fill out by noting whether a sequence is Arithmetic or Geometric and determining what the common ratio or difference is for each sequence. The next section of the worksheet contains only sequences with which the students use to write the explicit form of the given sequence. The final two sections have to do with using the e

The Exponential Growth and Decay Real Estate Value Project is an excellent cross-curricular project that melds Math and Social Studies and requires critical thinking and problem solving skills. The premise is this: Imagine that every two-term President of the past 40 years bought a "getaway house" on the day they took office. What would that house have been worth when they left office eight years later? Using national GDP in lieu of real estate inflation records which are never nationally con