TraylorMath

Tell your students they have to play a video game of their choice for homework and you'll get 100% completion! This PowerPoint activity asks them to analyze the action in their game in terms of the geometric transformations: reflection, rotation, translation and dilation. Why are we teaching transformations? Because they are a key element of video game design, animation, app design and lots of other STEM careers.

Full title: Would you teach writing without word processing? So why are you teaching math without calculators? This 34-slide PowerPoint presentation can be used to convince administrators, fellow teachers and parents that using calculators such as the TI-Nspire will greatly benefit students understanding of math. Includes photos of real 8th graders using TI-Nspires in Algebra 1 classes. If you already have TI-NSpire Teacher Software, a .tns version (without all the photos) is also included. Plea

Do your students have a hard time deciding what to do first when solving multi-step equations? Especially if there are variables on both sides? I have taught this process for many years, and distilled it down to Seven Steps that they middle grade and high school students can easily learn and use to solve almost any linear, multi-step equation! I've included a PowerPoint presentation that shows this process step-by-step, with four practice problems and a summary at the end. This is designed for 7