This idea came from having a sub for my math class (Saxon, Course 3, Lesson 43 for any Saxon users out there).  I had made a notes sheet f...

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 am going rogue with my lesson on measurement conversions.  I am leaving the book's explanation and doing my own.  I always try to be f...

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 ...

Today I was working on making a chart for my 7th grade kiddos about the commutative, associative, identity properties of addition and multip...

 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...