We created this rate of change graphic organizer to glue in our algebra interactive notebooks. This year, I emphasized rate of change much more than I did last year. I used this as an opportunity to constantly review the difference between dependent and independent variables. Whenever students would struggle with interpreting the rate of …
Slope
My Algebra 1 students created this page in their interactive notebooks to help them remember how to do rise over run. We glued in a positive and a negative sign. One each symbol, we wrote the directions to rise and run in order to make each type of slope. Download Plus and Minus Signs
Do you want to give your students lots of practice finding the slope between two points? Do you want to spark the interests of your students about what you will be learning that day? More than that, do you want to spark the interests of every single person who walks into your room? Inspired by …
My Algebra 1 students recently completed a four types of slope pictures project. I’m excited to share the resulting slope artwork with you! This weekend and today were spent attending my first ever student council state convention. It was full of fun and games and amazing speakers, but I have to admit that I am …
Less than a year ago, I made my first every foldable – a slope foldable. It was one of those random ideas you get in the shower. Or maybe I’m the only person who thinks about how to teach various math concepts in the shower… I made it. I loved it. I blogged about it. …
During student teaching, my first cooperating teacher at the high school level shared with me the slope tree method of teaching slope. After introducing what slope was, we asked the students to draw a tree in their notes. However, they couldn’t draw just any tree. Instead, they would learn how to draw a special kind …