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Ringgold, Georgia, United States
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Together we have 16 years of experience in the classroom. We have taught elementary school and are now middle school math and social studies teachers.
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Preview of Statistical vs. Non-Statistical Questions: Notes & Practice

Statistical vs. Non-Statistical Questions: Notes & Practice

This has been great way to introduce our statistics unit the past couple of years. Students will join in productive math talk as they justify their answers, create their own examples of statistical and non-statistical questions, work with partners, and put that practice to a test with a sort. It addresses a variety of learning styles, ensuring students are engaged and are set up for success throughout the unit. This could be used as an extension lesson in fifth grade or a reteach lesson in sev
Preview of Solving One-Step Equations: Addition & Subtraction Word Problems

Solving One-Step Equations: Addition & Subtraction Word Problems

Help students solve one-step equations with these practice sheets. Two practice sheets allows you to use them in different ways to assess student mastery and make instructional changes: INB practice, homework, guided practice, independent practice, or formative assessment.
Preview of Statistics: Finding the Missing Value Given the Mean

Statistics: Finding the Missing Value Given the Mean

Finding the missing value when given the mean is quite a challenging standard. This product includes two note pages that guide students into understanding the steps of finding a missing value, along with guided practice problems and independent practice. Answer keys are included! The four square organizer has been a great memory tool for our students in remembering the steps of finding the mean and checking their answer.
Preview of Three Read Protocol: Word Problem Strategy for Middle Grades

Three Read Protocol: Word Problem Strategy for Middle Grades

The Three Read Protocol takes the idea of a close read strategy, which is used to help students dive deeper into a text in order to answer higher order thinking questions. The same strategy can be used to help students break down mathematical word problems. This strategy focuses on the meaning rather than simply finding key words. A page of notes, along with one of the practice pages, has numberless word problems to reinforce the importance of the meaning rather than focusing on the numbers. The
Preview of Three Read Protocol: A Word Problem Strategy

Three Read Protocol: A Word Problem Strategy

The Three Read Protocol takes the idea of a close read strategy, which is used to help students dive deeper into a text in order to answer higher order thinking questions. The same strategy can be used to help students break down mathematical word problems. This strategy focuses on the meaning rather than simply finding key words. The item includes: anchor chart/postertwo versions of notes (includes numberless word problem option)extension/multi-step word problem practicesix pages of word prob
Preview of Statistics: Interquartile Range and Box and Whisker Plots

Statistics: Interquartile Range and Box and Whisker Plots

This product includes notes for finding the interquartile range of a data set and how to create and interpret box plots. This product offers two versions of notes to meet the needs of learners who need some accommodations. Students will apply their understanding to real life situations. These practice sheets require students to apply, justify, and conclude. This product is for teachers who are trying to reach DOK 3 understanding. All of these notes and practice sheets have been used/tested in ou
Preview of Statistics Notes, Vocab, & Practice: Mean, Median, Range

Statistics Notes, Vocab, & Practice: Mean, Median, Range

Whether you use these pages for notes, guided practice, independent practice, they are a great addition to your statistics unit! We use binders, but these pages can be printed at a smaller scale or two to a page to fit in interactive journals. This can be used as an extension lesson for fifth grade or a remediation lesson for seventh grade. This product includes: vocabulary graphic organizers notesguided practiceextension taskanswer keys helpful "How to Use" page with additional tips
Preview of Math Talk Sentence Starters

Math Talk Sentence Starters

Purposeful math discourse is crucial to student learning. These sentence starters are a simple way to start teaching students how to talk about math and will help guide students as they problem solve in pairs or teams. These are great to print and display in the classroom as well as a student copy for journals/notebooks. This product includes 5 different color schemes.
Preview of Percent Word Problems

Percent Word Problems

Make percent purposeful with these real life word problems. This product includes differentiated questions so you can choose which set of questions your students are ready for. Of course you can use these in different ways, but we love to reduce the size of the page and use them in our interactive notebook as a quick check.
Preview of Equivalent Ratios and Ratio Tables

Equivalent Ratios and Ratio Tables

This product includes: note sectiontwo guided practice sheets using two different strategiesindependent practice/application sheetanswer keys
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About the store

Experience

Together we have 16 years of experience in the classroom. We have taught elementary school and are now middle school math and social studies teachers.

Teaching style

Our passion is connecting math to real life scenarios to make learning engaging and purposeful. We love extending student learning through rigorous tasks.

Awards & shining teacher moments

Teacher of the Year 2019-2020

My own education history

Dalton State College, Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education with ESOL and gifted endorsements Walden University, Masters in Reading and Mathematics

Additional biographical information

After having our daughters, we were conflicted between wanting to be present for them without having to give up our love for teaching. We job share a middle school math/social studies position, allowing us to be at home with our girls more while also continuing to make a difference in the classroom.