In Algebra 2, I teach conics at the end of the year. I always include the section that includes systems of non-linear equations, because I ...

I’m gonna be completely honest.  When I was teaching Algebra 2 Honors for the first time, I was super nervous to teach logarithms.  I ...

So, I always loved teaching logs in Algebra 2.  I have so many fun things that I did during that unit! This isn’t really an activity,...

I stumbled across this game called “Name that Conic” a few years ago on Walking in Mathland .  I have played it and changed it little by l...

I was hoping I would get to use this interactive notebook page idea next year.  I'm a little sad that I won't!  I was secretly hopin...

It's not a foldable, but I really like this interactive notebook page idea.  I (secretly) look for excuses to get out markers.  This pag...

One of my standard “tools” to get students to practice a kind of boring skill is to get out the mini-whiteboards and let them write with m...

Classifying conics is always a fun lesson for me to teach.  For me, this is the last lesson of my conics unit.  I try to keep the actual le...

When I was trolling Pinterest this past summer, I kept seeing cool interactive notebook pages for elementary school that used paint chips....

We all have lessons that just don't work out.  Sometimes we expect too much, sometimes or materials don't work, and sometimes w...

In Algebra 2, I loved teaching about compound interest.  I didn’t have to try as hard to keep my student’s interest, because we were talki...

Today I’m sharing a fun activity that I like to do with my students at the beginning of the year in Algebra 2.  At the beginning of the y...

In my curriculum, one of the first few lessons in Algebra 2 Honors was about the subsets of real numbers.  If I were teaching this again,...