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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last week the kiddos were having a lot of trouble with literal equations and I decided to make some task cards for them.  This is my first a...

Integer Idol is not something that I can take credit for creating.  It was something that I found going through you tube videos for songs ab...

Here is an activity that I made a while back for finding slope from a graph.  I took a Kuta Software worksheet and turned it into a matchin...

This year, I was introduced to a website called Collaborative Mathematics through the math teacher's circle that I participate in once ...

I have wanted to post this for over a week now so I can tell you how it went, but we keep having –40ºF wind chills in Minnesota and school i...

Most of my algebra kiddos are pretty good at evaluating expressions.  So, the lesson on it in the textbook should be a review.  To review, I...

I have never been able to find a way to quickly organize small groups and assign roles.  I have done the normal tricks of counting off and t...