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...

Ok, so today was one of those days where my students had every right to tease me some for what I said.  It was completely unintentional, but...

By far, my most popular post had been the classifying real numbers foldable.  Tomorrow I will be taking my Algebra students through the pro...

I have noticed in the past that there are some students in algebra who can't set up the real number line correctly.  With that, I have...

This foldable is very specific to lesson 3 of Saxon, Course 3.  I wanted something this year that was more concrete and organized than what ...

I made this simple little foldable to teach finding the value of an expression given the values of the variables.  My only problem aft...

 I have been thinking about two lessons in my text that are three lessons apart from each other.  The first is a basic review of the order...

Lesson 2 in the Saxon algebra book focuses on the key vocabulary associated with expressions.  The text focuses on the words: constant, v...

 The first foldable for next fall has been made!  The first lesson that I teach in my algebra text is on sets and real numbers.  When I...

This week is my last full week with my 8th grade algebra students.  One of the topics for the week was linear inequalities.  In the past, I ...

I opened up my teacher edition last night to review the lesson and make some notes.  I got to the rules of the absolute value inequalities ...

Tomorrow, I will be teaching a lesson on the Pythagorean Theorem.  I wanted to let the students actually see why it worked.  However, with...

I am starting to feel very good about how well my kiddos are understanding now that I have been using foldables.  I see them being used and ...

Well, over the last two weeks I've learned that my 8th graders have forgotten how to cut and paste from kindergarten.  We made an accord...

So, this week I was trying to use foldables for notes instead of just letting my 8th grade Algebra students write their own notes like I hav...