I tried something that I learned by reading a conversation on Twitter this summer.  I would only be guessing at who was having this conversa...

I have been procrastinating by digging through my folder on my desktop labeled, "7th Grade Math".  Clever, huh?  I came across som...

Now that there are only two weeks until teachers have to report, I have officially decided that it is time for me to begin panicking and get...

This picture caught my eye on Pinterest a while back and I am finally getting around to checking it out.  This comes from Matt Coaty who w...

Here is another game from TMC14.  This is the game that my group worked on so I can take some credit in it's creation.  My group's g...

At TMC14, I attended the same morning session for the three days that I was at the conference.  It was a session for middle school teach...

Yep!  Tonight was one of those nights when I really needed to be pulling together my unit 1 plan for my algebra class, I found myself comp...

Well, I finally decided that I am going to remove the problem solving category from my grade book.  That isn't as horrifying as it sound...

The bottom x value is a 3.  It isn't very clear. A few years I switched schools and in that move, lots of stuff ended up in my offic...

It's hard to see on the picture, but the fish are Cs. As I was cleaning out files today, I came across some pictures of the "Al...

So, at the end of last year, I was reading through the posts on Edmodo that other math and social studies teachers had posted.  One that c...

Mathematical conversations are a technique that I learned over a year ago, but never put it into practice.  This year I am going to give it ...

The first lessons of the text book are so heavily packed with vocabulary that I found myself going back to my bookshelf and looking for wa...

Aren't they cute?!  I found these the other day at my local dollar store.  I plan to put them to good use this year when we come to th...

 I found another great game to practice adding and subtracting integers.  The game really forces students to be flexible in how they think...

I wanted to practice the Product Rule of Exponents Property.  My algebra kiddos worked on this last year in pre-algebra, but I am pretty s...

As my fellow Saxon Algebra I (2009) know, Lesson 5 combines absolute value and addition of integers into one lesson.  In the past, I have ...

Opps!  Should have had the "s" in coefficients in parentheses.  The next lesson in the text is about the different parts of an...

Well, school has barely ended and I am already working on next year. There will be no rest for me this summer as I get ready to have a blen...