Every year it seems as if working on Order of Operations is a brand new concept for my students, as if it has all of a sudden become a foreign language. I will admit that if you are just looking at a mnemonic device it might as well be a foreign language.. PEMDAS, BEDMAS, GEMS, yep, none of that makes sense to a student and when you throw it in with other mnemonics they have been exposed to it is ... View Post
Setting Up Interactive Notebooks from the Beginning
Time and time again I am asked numerous questions about Interactive Notebooks because people know that I not only LOVE INBs but I have been using them, creating them and training other teachers on them for the better part of the past decade. Recently one of my Facebook Group members asked, "How do you go about setting up Interactive Notebooks from the beginning?" and when she asked this I knew ... View Post
Proportions are my FAVORITE thing!
Recently I asked on my Facebook page what teachers favorite thing to teach were and while the answers were as varied as those who responded, I got a lot of questions about why proportions were my FAVORITE thing to teach. When I began teaching middle school I was reminded of the fun of proportions. I seriously felt that if I could teach proportions for an entire year (and not just one unit) I ... View Post
All About Ratios and Intro to Proportions
This past week we have been working hard and heavy on understanding ratios to build a strong basis for proportions. We ended the week with an intro to proportions and starting solving them from word problems. My students continue to amaze me with what they are capable of that I would never have imagined after the past three years in 8th grade and it seeming like they knew nothing from the prior ... View Post
Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percents Flippable
If you are searching for a fun way to teach , decimals, and percents, this foldable is a must for your classroom! Last week in my class, my regular students worked on creating a flippable for the different types of rational number conversions (Fractions, Decimals and Percents). I knew that I was going to be doing the same activity this week with my Resource Math students. I needed something that ... View Post
