I want to share a NAGS Foldable I made for my Algebra 2 students to review multiple representations of relations. This year, I am taking an entirely different approach to Algebra 2 than last year. Last year, I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into with teaching Algebra 2. I tried following the …
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I want to share the Five Easy Pieces Activity I used with my Algebra 2 students on the first day of school. This year, I am emphasizing problem solving strategies and cooperative learning in my classroom. So, I chose first day activities for my classes to participate in that would require or encourage them to …
I’m excited to show off my real number system nesting boxes to you today. I hope everybody is having a fabulous Monday! I’ve really been enjoying my last Monday of summer. And tomorrow, I will celebrate my last day of summer. Teachers report on Wednesday for inservice, and we will have students in our classrooms …
So, I’m about to share an idea for a describing graphs game with you that I have no idea if it would actually work. I haven’t tried this out in my classroom. One of the presenters at the conference I’m at this week presented an idea yesterday for bellwork. I’m kinda attached to my current …
Before beginning radicals with my Algebra 1 students, I had my students complete a Vocabulary Knowledge Rating Chart. I created a book type foldable with three of these (identical) charts for my students to glue in their interactive notebooks. This was my first idea to try out from Styles and Strategies for Teaching High School …
I realized I never wrote about the literal equations scavenger hunt activity I did with my Algebra 1 students for much-needed extra practice. During our unit on linear equation, my Algebra 1 students really struggled with converting equations from standard form to slope-intercept form. So, I decided to save our unit on systems of equations …
If you teach conic sections as part of Algebra 2 or Pre-Calculus, I am about to share a life-changing teaching method for you called Conic Cards. Conic Cards are the creation of Cindy Johnson, a National Board Certified Teacher in Oklahoma. She blogs at Conic Card Lady. Cindy originally shared her Conic Cards at a …
Today I want to share some Algebra 2 foldables and interactive notebook pages designed and created by my students. It was so fun to see their take on creating foldables of their own after spending a year creating foldables in our interactive notebooks. Earlier this month, I assigned my Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 students …
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I created this parts of a radical graphic organizer for my Algebra 1 students to glue in their interactive math notebooks. I want to share the file with you as well! As a first year teacher, I am still working on my pacing. How long do I need to devote to this unit? How fast …
I created this graphing linear inequalities graphic organizer for my Algebra 1 students to glue in their interactive notebooks. I’ve basically thrown the textbook the rest of the way out the window. Last semester, I tried to present Algebra 1 concepts in the same order as the textbook even though my students were not using …
After introducing absolute value with a guess the age activity, my Algebra 1 students completed this graphing absolute value foldable in their interactive notebooks. I had my students create the absolute value graphs by first substituting in values and creating a t-chart of points to graph on the coordinate plane. As a class, we graphed …
Today I want to share a guess the age activity I used with my Algebra 1 students to introduce the concept of absolute value. Monday was my students’ first experience with absolute value in Algebra 1. A few students who took Algebra 1 last year already knew what absolute value was. A few others wrongly …
I created this Characteristics of Graphs & Functions Foldable recently. After doing domain and range with my Algebra 2 class, my next goal was for students to be able to recognize x-intercepts, y-intercepts, maximum and minimum values, and vertical and horizontal asymptotes. I summarized these for my students in a booklet foldable for their interactive …
We started our Describing Graphs Unit in Algebra 2 by playing some domain and range pictionary. I used the domain and range graphing cards from Zero-Knowledge Proofs. I gave each student two pages of cards to cut apart and keep in their notebook. My students were surprisingly impressed by the small pocket we created to …
Today I want to share an Adding and Subtracting Polynomials Activity I created for my Algebra 1 students. One of our objectives in Algebra 1 is that students will be able to add and subtract polynomials. My students are usually pretty good about remembering to distribute the negative when the second polynomial is written in …
Tomorrow, my Algebra 2 class will begin identifying the domain and range of a function from a graph. I created a domain and range foldable to help my students keep the three different notations separate. I used a basic three door foldable. The first flap contains all of the information about set notation. The second …
Original Version of Flyswatter Review Game I created this flyswatter review game to give my Algebra 1 students practice identifying the different forms of linear equations. A little over a week ago, my Algebra 1 students took their test over graphing linear equations. This test covered finding slope, x and y intercepts, graphing linear equations, …
I created a new ordered pairs foldable that I am super excited to share with you. While teaching Saturday School, I created this foldable. Instead of designing a foldable for one of my future units, I created a foldable for a past unit. I’ve had several visitors come to my blog after searching for an …
Well, today was the last Saturday School of the semester. And, it was my most productive Saturday School yet. When I agreed to supervise Saturday School, I was pretty excited that I would be getting paid to do work that I would normally be doing on Saturdays, anyway. Well, that and supervising students who needed …
Today, I want to share a parallel and perpendicular lines foldable I used to introduce the concepts of these different types of lines to my Algebra 1 classes. Quote of the Day: “I’m going to name my kid ‘Perpendicular.’” I’m not the biggest fan of what I had my students write inside the foldable. It …
Here’s a Point-Slope Form Foldable I created for my Algebra 1 classes to glue in their interactive notebooks. It covers writing an equation given a slope and a point, writing an equation given two points, and graphing an equation in point-slope form. Today, my Algebra 1 students learned about point-slope form. This is the third …
After my Algebra 1 students finished their standard form of a linear equation foldable, I created a standard form cut and paste activity for my students to complete. I chose a equation in standard form that I wanted them to practice converting to slope intercept form. I printed each element in the original equation, new …
Today I’m sharing a standard form of a linear equation foldable I created for my Algebra 1 classes. Last week, my Algebra 1 students worked with linear equations in both slope intercept form and standard form. We practiced graphing equations in standard form by converting to slope intercept form and by graphing intercepts. At first, …
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