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...

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...

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

Just a quick idea today.  My kiddos have been struggling to correctly identify the point in equations that use point-slope form for linear e...

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...

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...

I was totally inspired by a conversation I was having with my dad last Saturday.  We were talking about a local grocery store chain's 45...

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...

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 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...

This was a quick and easy review that I made for my Algebra students while a substitute was in my classroom.  The students rolled integer di...