In the past, I’ve always noticed that my Geometry and Algebra 2 students have HUGELY struggled with graphing horizontal and vertical lines....

I know of a few different methods people use to teach factoring, but I’ve never been a fan of the “fancy” methods.  They just do...

When I taught my students how to write a function rule, I used this graphic organizer .   It was really just an interesting way to organize...

Ahhh, slope.  I was afraid that slope was going to be boring in Algebra 1 (since they did it in Pre-Algebra), but it was super fun! Fir...

My interactive notebook pages for solving absolute value equations aren’t super fancy, but they got the job done! I made a flip book ...

I ended up loving my Introduction to Functions unit!  So far, it’s been my favorite unit in Algebra 1.   The first day, I talked about ...

I was a little nervous to teach about interpreting graphs in Algebra 1.  However, it went really well and it was kind of fun! First, I ...

My friend from Math Dyal has been so inspired by brain research that she's changed the way her students use their interactive notebooks....

My Algebra 1 students struggled with inequalities a lot more than I thought they would. When I taught this unit, I spent time solving one a...

In Algebra 1, I split the Solving Equations unit into two parts.  The first part was just all of the standard solving equations.  In the se...