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These are Common Core Aligned Scaffolded Notes. They are made to be used as a note-taking guide in the classroom, particularly in states like Utah where Core-aligned books are not as readily available to match the state core. These notes include group exploration activities and classroom discussion. I have included a set of the "teacher's notes" that a teacher can use to review the lesson and also share on a class website with students who were absent the day of the lesson. This particular lesso

These notes (Teacher and Student Versions) are designed to help students recognize the patterns that can be found in integer exponents. With guided examples, students will discover and define the multiplication property, division property, power to a power property, and negative power property. This lesson also includes four different justifications for the zero power property, which is infamous for the student frustration that it causes in middle school and high school. These notes help meet th

This ledger combines the idea of classroom money, hall-pass coupons, extra-credit coupons, and other classroom reward strategies into one easy-to-manage system. Each student receives a ledger at the beginning of the year to track classroom credits and debits. They each start out with a back-to-school stipend of $20. In the column labeled "transaction type" students can earn money by doing things like solving a problem on the board or explaining their reasoning in front of the class. They are req

This template allows you to quickly create homework assignments that give more reliable data AND cut down on grading time AND never require a student to grade the work of another student. A portion of the assessment takes place in class so that students get that timely feedback BEFORE they are assigned the entire worksheet. It also takes care of students who turn in homework late or are absent the day that homework is assigned. Once this system is integrated into your classroom students will pe

These notes (Teacher and Student versions) are an great way to prepare Math 2 students for N.RN.1 by teaching them to evaluate, estimate, add, subtract, and multiply radical expressions in every index. This lesson uses the patterns in radical expressions to help students create their own definitions and explanations for simplification processes. It also ties back into N.RN.3 requirements by showing students how to identify if radical expressions are rational or irrational. These notes also work

These are scaffolded notes (Teacher & Student Versions) that are designed to guide student learning and note-taking during a lesson. They may be used to incorporate group work, individual exploration, and classroom discussion into a lesson. This particular set of notes uses the definition of Pi to help students discover the formula for circumference and area of a circle. It also uses Cavaleri's Principle to allow students to determine the volume for many common solids. The goal is for students t