Robert Regan

A number tiles card game with endless variety that can be played over and over. Simply cut out and play. Key skills: adding to teens and carrying to tens place by working with two-digit addends. Helps develop working memory and to see patterns when carrying to the tens place.

For teacher to guide students through strategies for graphing rational functions. Great for precalculus or calculus notes or practice. Another in my low-tech hand-drawn series of "just right" activities that I couldn't find anywhere so I made it up. Enjoy!

Graph attack! Aliens are attacking and the laser turrets must be programmed to stop them. Eight attack scenario tasks that require writing linear equations and graphing them. Equation forms are a mix of slope-intercept, point-slope, and standard. Great for mixed review or culminating activity for linear equations unit. Can be used as an activity sheet or cut into cards for a team challenge or stations.

Another in the low-tech series where I couldn't find anything like it so I made it by hand. Perfect for Algebra II or Precalculus when you want students to see what changes to the functions do to the graph. A progressive guided activity that starts with a parent function (square root of x) and then goes through various transformations (all the stretches, compressions, and translations).

Can't find the fraction activity that's "just right"? Neither could I, so I made one. Students will learn to SEE why they need to find common denominators in order to add fractions. This hand-drawn, color-coded activity features five problems that increase in difficulty. Best used as a color print-out. Students should be encouraged to draw on the diagrams to figure out the problems. There is also space for guided work on the numerical procedure for finding common denominators. The big idea is fo

Recommended as a guided activity for students who struggle with the meaning of decimals and their multiplication. Enhance the activity by using play money. Another in my series of low-tech, hand-drawn activities that do just the thing you can't find anywhere else.

Hone multiplication skills with an exciting, yet easy to learn, money accumulation competition. For two or more players. Dice or spinners required. This highly adaptable game is perfect for choosing a target multiplication skill and making it into a fun activity. For each turn, a player rolls to get the multiplicand, rolls again for the multiplier, finds the total, and then adds that to their running total. The first player to reach the target amount wins. Right now I'm using this game to pro

Students will analyze how multi-step equations work through comical word problems that feature themselves (teacher will have to edit names). Each of the seven word problems has a darkly humorous scenario that is then represented by a multi-step equation. Each group creates a poster and delivers a presentation that: 1. Explains how the equation represents the scenario 2. Provides the solution and explains why it fits. 3. Shows how to algebraically solve it. 4. Shows two false moves that students

Insightful short-answer comprehension questions to go along with Dr. King's last speech

A short test on mood and tone that includes multiple choice, short answer, and creative writing.

In addition to a straightforward point-slope problem, three real-life scenarios are provided that can be solved using the point slope formula. Sure, it may be easier to solve them without point-slope, but the point is that it can be used!

This is a week-long lesson plan I made for when I was going to be out for a week. It compares Longfellow's "Lighthouse" to Bradury's "The Fog Horn." It has daily activities and culminates in a writing assignment.

Using cutout cards with letters, numbers, and symbols, students set up given equations and then solve for a specified variable by performing algebraic operations with additional manipulatives.

Excerpt from Plato's "Meno" dialogue with added geometrical figures that go with the text. Excellent for introducing the Pythagorean theorem.

A summary with diagrams of Godel's Proof for the incompleteness of systems. Includes a bit of work in symbolic logic and discussion questions.

Students write a short screenplay about a war scenario using a system of equations. By creating a graph that represents a crucial war situation, such as intercepting an attack, troop build-up, or the time for missiles to arrive, students are then able to write an engaging dialogue between two commanders arguing about what the graph represents.

This 1-2 week group research project involves creating a game based on one of the historical periods studied in history class. Students will learn about MLA style in-text citations and Works Cited page.

A step-by-step student activity sheet that guides students through figuring out how to find surface area, and comparing their discovery to what they already know about volume of prisms and cylinders. Five cut-out 3D paper models are included with the activity.

Students will draw a map of one floor of their school and follow instructions to draw paths and identify midpoint, slope, and distance.

A quiz that tests students' ability to derive meaning from given roots. It does not require any memorizing, but does require word formation skills.