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Students struggle over creating linear expressions from the text of a word problem. To help them I have created two resources here. The first is a walkthrough aiding them in the construction of a linear equation using: 1. slope and intercept 2. slope and point 3. two points The answers to this guided activity is provided. The second part of this workbook is a cut and paste activity where students read the word problem and search for the correct expression to go with the statement. An answer key

Students often struggle over creating expressions to solve from word problems. I have created this resource to help guide them and see the patterns in the various types of quadratic word problems that they can encounter. In this activity, students will paste the correct equations to the quadratic word problems. An answer key is provided which makes this activity very student directed. This allows teachers to focus individually on the students. Because the students get to choose their answer fro

Graphic Organizers for analytical geometry. There are so many little steps to finding: 1. Altitudes 2. Right bisectors 3. Medians 4. Distance to a line 5. Properties of a polygon These graphic organizers will help the student layout the steps in a clear manner for all 5 of these types of geometrical properties and problems.

Using Power Supplies, Resistors, Voltage and Ammeters, students will first build series and parallel circuits and ultimately discover how the current and voltage behaves. The second half of the activity explores the idea that circuits can be treated as a resistor having an effective resistance value. Students are challenged to make this connection in the context of an engaging and hands-on activity.

No experience needed in programming. Reinforce basic social norms and also learn the basics of coding. Scratch is a free online coding platform and I walk you through all the steps needed to make a simple program of two images of people bumping into one another. They apologize and continue on their way. Coding is a great way to introduce STEM into your classroom or at home and this will help increase your confidence in its use. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT

Here is a one page organizer to help students go through the process of finding the terms when factoring a complicated quadratic expression