• Teacher Notes: Expressions before equations!  pdf

  • Mind-reading class activity  pdf doc

  • Expressions practice 1  pdf doc

  • Expressions practice 2  pdf doc

  • Toothpick Patterns  pdf doc

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Stamp It! is an engaging program for developing algebraic expressions that represent numeric patterns in a grid. 

Use Stamp It! online here.  

User Guide:  pdf  doc 

Teacher Guide:  pdf  doc

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CubeScape - Building in Three Dimensions

• A setting that develops understanding of coordinates in 3-D. Make different structures using commands that become more efficient the more algebraic expressions are incorporated.

• Click here to explore CubeScape online. 

• Click here for CubeScape With Octants - an advanced version incorporating negative coordinates.

• Student handouts:  pdf doc.  Teacher Guide:  pdf​

• Teacher Notes: Slope and Linear Equations  pdf

  • Race Track  pdf doc

  • Rate of Change

  • Alcohol Levels

  • Human Graphing

  • "Kitchen" Experiments 1

  • Flag Graphing Project

  • 1-D Graphing

• One of the powerful applications of mathematics is optimization -- finding the biggest or smallest solution to a problem. Students don't have to wait until calculus to maximize (or minimize) a situation. Linear programming introduces them to a real-world tool in business and other fields that only relies on linear equations and systems.

• See CubeScape above for a tool that helps develop an understanding of coordinates in 3-D.

• Exponential Patterns

• Recursive and Explicit Formulas

• Patterns Rule! activities

• "Kitchen" Experiments 2

• Natural World Data Paper

• Animation Project