Teaching Math Together

A different way for students to look at the Expectations and Policies of the classroom. The students really enjoyed the change! It also helped that everything was separated by category so when I asked follow-up questions, they were easy to find! ****Unless you are Microsoft Word savvy, you'll want to make sure you stay within the margins of the boxes. Otherwise, they will move around and change size. Then you'll have to fix it back to line up. It can be difficult if you don't work with Micr

A fun way for students to practice solving Quadratic equations At the bottom of each problem in the scavenger hunt, I included a Mathematician's name and a number (This was helpful in case a student made a mistake, I was able to see which problem the mistake occurred). It was a great conversation opener and I even ended up offering Extra Credit for students who wanted to research them! The problems used, post-up problems & the Key is included. Students should be given one of the problems to b

Provides students with a fun way to review Exponent Rules. The last page (Page 6) includes the problems that will the teacher will use for the BINGO game, along with the answers that match them. There are 5 different "boards" for this game so the students will have different sheets to play off of. I find that they have more fun if they pick the board they will play from. By the way, after each problem, I have a student say their answer. If I see too many students mark their sheet after the a

These notes were used in my Algebra 1 and 2 classes where we are currently implementing Interactive Notebooks. The students liked that I had saved them a bunch of writing with this one :-). You could, of course, simply use these notes and treat them as regular notes and have the students write it out old school style. I've taught it both ways and its fine. **Helpful Teacher Comment** Be sure to allow the students to discuss words they think will fall under each Operation category before writ