Want to keep your Algebra 1 students engaged? This collection of free printable Algebra 1 activities will help you map out an entire year of fun lesson plans!
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Want to keep your Algebra 1 students engaged? This collection of free printable Algebra 1 activities will help you map out an entire year of fun lesson plans!
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Free Download of Cards for Human Polynomials Activity. Great way to get students up and moving around the classroom while practicing naming polynomials.
Looking for engaging factoring activities for your Algebra 1 or Algebra 2 students? Check out these creative and hands-on factoring games and puzzles!
Wondering how to use algebra tiles to solve equations? In this post there are 3 examples for using algebra tiles to solve equations, a free set of paper algebra tiles and a free algebra tiles worksheet solving mat. Algebra tiles are awesome for making algebra visual, hands-on and help introduce students to new difficult topics in a fun way.
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Are you looking for a fun, hands-on linear equations project? This algebra project was one of my favorite things about teaching 8th grade math and algebra. My students would run into the room and right over to the windowsill, excited to see their grass, collect the day’s date, analyze slope, write linear equations and all without even realizing they were doing algebra!
Looking for engaging factoring activities for your Algebra 1 or Algebra 2 students? Check out these creative and hands-on factoring games and puzzles that will help make factoring fun!
Are you looking for some fun linear equations activities and teaching ideas? This post is chock full of ideas for stations, centers, review activities and independent work for linear equations. Includes links to games, math pennants, foldables for algebra interactive notebooks, an algebra 1 word wall, a puzzle, a hands-on algebra project, and a free pdf printable template that works great as a warm up or closer in an algebra classroom.
Are you looking for a fun hands-on activity for teaching quadratic trinomial factoring? A factoring activity we did in class using cereal is described in this post as well as links to other fun quadratics activities.
Great hands on activity for 6th - 8th graders struggling or just learning the Distributive Property. I like to tell my students that ...
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Free Algebraic Expressions Worksheet where the students must solve problems that will help then work their way through a maze!
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I love teaching all algebra topics with tons of interactive and collaborative activities that get students thinking independently and working together. This way everyone gets the practice they need to feel confident in algebra. Here are a bunch of slope activities that you can assign to students working in group or even digitally. I have updated many of the activities to now include links to interactive digital slope activities in Google Slides and Google Forms for blended learning.
Use this algebraic equations activity to help your middle school math students practice solving one-step addition and subtraction equations.
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Geometry is such a fun topic to practice in 1st Grade! There are so many hands-on ways to work with shapes and fractions. Furthermore, many students
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Teacher approved Desmos activities for Algebra 1 classes that will have your students engaged and thinking critically.
Engage students with these 11 hands-on scatter plot activities which require students to collect their own data and produce graphs in order to answer questions.
Want to keep your Algebra 1 students engaged? This collection of free printable Algebra 1 activities will help you map out an entire year of fun lesson plans!
Do you have students who struggle to "get it" in your algebra class? I've been there! The ideas and resources in this post work for special education algebra students and students who need some convincing that algebra is cool. The post includes links to a solving equations graphic organizer, quick check algebra templates, algebra pennants, math cheat sheets, partner math activities and an algebra 1 word wall. All of the algebra teaching ideas in this post are teacher tested and kid approved! I know they will work to reengage your students.
Looking for engaging factoring activities for your Algebra 1 or Algebra 2 students? Check out these creative and hands-on factoring games and puzzles that will help make factoring fun!
Are you looking for some fun linear equations activities and teaching ideas? This post is chock full of ideas for stations, centers, review activities and independent work for linear equations. Includes links to games, math pennants, foldables for algebra interactive notebooks, an algebra 1 word wall, a puzzle, a hands-on algebra project, and a free pdf printable template that works great as a warm up or closer in an algebra classroom.
Do you have students who struggle to "get it" in your algebra class? I've been there! The ideas and resources in this post work for special education algebra students and students who need some convincing that algebra is cool. The post includes links to a solving equations graphic organizer, quick check algebra templates, algebra pennants, math cheat sheets, partner math activities and an algebra 1 word wall. All of the algebra teaching ideas in this post are teacher tested and kid approved! I know they will work to reengage your students.
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Activities and resources to help students get the practice they need combining like terms. Includes FREE game download, and 12 engaging, easy to use resources. Check it out & repin for future reference.
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Are you looking for fun, hands-on activities to teach factoring quadratics or the quadratic formula? In this post are lots of ideas and free resources for helping students when teaching lessons on quadratics.
I am so excited about this new game! I wanted to engage all my students in an activity where they were finding the slope of a linear equation from a graph. I remembered playing "I have, Who has..." games with my elementary students back in student teaching. Click here to see this resource in my TPT Store. I have all my students stand up in the room. This gets them up and out of their seat! I pass out the cards to each student. There are 36 cards total. If you have less than 36 students give some students two cards. I tell the students to go ahead and look at their graph on their card and find the slope of the given line. Each graph already has two points given so this helps as well! You can start at any card because they all loop back to each other. You can start with a card or have a student start the game. I set the stopwatch on my phone to time the students or you can Click here for a free Google stopwatch. As the teacher, find the card that you are going to start with, on the Answer Key. You can follow along on the key to make sure the students are correct. If the question doesn't match the answer key then that student is incorrect. They love competing with other classes to see who can get through the loop the fastest. You really have to pay attention and know your card's slope! Our first run took about 7 minutes. The second run was only 3 minutes! You can also write the times from each class on the board and give a small incentive to the class who can do it the fastest! Have fun! Click here to get this Game for your students!
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When my math coach and I sat down to plan my algebra unit I had no idea how well my students would do and how far we would be able to go with it. There have been several teachable moments throughout this unit where we've been able to go above and beyond the ideas that I had planned to covered. This unit has been interrupted by so many things including Benchmark test. My mind reels with the thoughts of what we could have done had we not had all the interruptions. It has been a real confidence booster for so many of students who struggled through our last unit on fractions. My math coach gave me a huge box of materials to be used for Hands-On Equations when we started planning this unit. I have to admit that the box was so overwhelming that when she first gave it to me I wanted to ignore it. I didn't want to take the time to deal with it. I am so glad I decided to deal with that box. In a matter of thirty minutes or less my students were solving some pretty big equations yesterday. They immediately understand what a variable is and its role in equations. They understood that an equal sign doesn't mean solve this problem and find the answer. They were able to see the equal sign as the middle point on a scale where each side of it had to be balanced or equal. I was so incredibly proud of them, but even more important they were proud of themselves. They had been so scared of this unit just because it was called Algebra. But by the end of our time together yesterday they were all saying how easy algebra is. I was thrilled because algebra has always been my strong point in math, but I never really understood the why. I never saw the equal sign as the middle point of a scale. I was just able to regurgitate what my teacher was doing. Because of that teaching algebra has always been one of my low points. I didn't have the knowledge to explain it the way I need to. That changed yesterday. So what is Hands-On Math? We started class with some discussion about what an equal sign meant. I let them share their ideas and then I brought out my scale - though I use that term loosely because it is not an actually scale. It just looks like one. We started with a blue pawn representing X on one side of the scale and a cube representing 5 on the other side. Students were immediately able to see that in order for the scale to be balanced then x had to equal 5. From there I followed the book that comes with this kit. This little book made my job incredibly easy. According to this book, you can use this kit to teach students as low as 3rd grade how to solve algebraic equation. I might have rolled my eyes when I first read that, but after just one day I totally believe it. You can see from the picture above how we slowly stepped it up. Students were given their own scale and pieces so that they could manipulate the equations. Students were writing the equation and solving for X with ease. They were primarily using guess and check yesterday. I did show them how to solve without the scale or using guess and check at the end of class. Again they were scared when I told them what I wanted to show them, but as soon as I did it I heard lots of "Oh! That's easy!" They will begin practicing it on their own soon. I can't wait.
Hands on Learning Welcome to another edition of… Let’s be honest friends paper and pencil worksheets are becoming less and less engaging. Even before COVID worksheets have become 2nd to...
I love teaching all algebra topics with tons of interactive and collaborative activities that get students thinking independently and working together. This way everyone gets the practice they need to feel confident in algebra. Here are a bunch of slope activities that you can assign to students working in group or even digitally. I have updated many of the activities to now include links to interactive digital slope activities in Google Slides and Google Forms for blended learning.
Wondering how to use algebra tiles to solve equations? In this post there are 3 examples for using algebra tiles to solve equations, a free set of paper algebra tiles and a free algebra tiles worksheet solving mat. Algebra tiles are awesome for making algebra visual, hands-on and help introduce students to new difficult topics in a fun way.
