One of my high school math students’ most used math reference sheets is this free printable factors chart for the numbers from 1 to 100. I give my algebra and pre-calculus students a copy of this 1-100 factors chart at the beginning of the school year, and we end up referencing them a lot. This …
I created this free printable prime numbers chart that features all of the prime numbers under 100 for my Pre-Calculus students to reference while simplifying radicals recently. I think it would be useful for a much wider range of math students, though. My students were looking for a quick way to tell if a number …
I created this factors race activity to give my math concepts students practice listing all of the factors of a number. I shared it on twitter in January 2018, and it’s only now making it to my blog in January 2020. Better late than never, right?!? To prep for the activity, I printed 4 sheets …
This prime factorization foldable is one of my Algebra 1 students’ most-used resources throughout our radicals unit. I was inspired to create this foldable after one of my eighth graders commented that it would be cool to have something in our notes that gave us every single prime factorization. I took this idea and ran …
I created this prime factorization graphic organizer for my Algebra 1 students to summarize two different methods for finding prime factorization: the factor tree method and the birthday cake method. I teach my Algebra 1 students to simplify radicals through prime factorization because it works no matter what the index of the radical is. This …
Yesterday, I shared about all the amazing things I learned/experienced as part of the Tulsa Math Teachers’ Circle Summer Immersion Workshop. As part of that post, I mentioned that I had created some factor tree puzzles after being inspired by the puzzles shared by Dr. Harold Reiter and the puzzle created by one of the …
I created these prime numbers below 100 charts for my Algebra 1 students to glue in their interactive notebooks. To help my students remember their prime numbers, I created a quarter sheet with each of the prime numbers below 100 for my students to glue in their notebooks. I have a few students repeating Algebra …
I gave my students a prime factorization practice booklet which gave them a chance to try out both methods we learned for prime factorization – the factor tree method and the birthday cake method. After giving students a bit of time to work each problem, a student volunteer came to the SMARTBoard to present a …
Today I want to share with you a new method I learned for teaching prime factorization called the birthday cake method. Before I became a teacher, I sometimes battled fears that teaching could be boring. After all, once you’ve mastered high school math, there’s not much new to learn. Well, there might not be any new …