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  • Scaffolding Solving Systems by Graphing

    The photo shows a snippet of a handout I use as a discovery activity for solving systems by graphing. It shows the use of color coding as well. I start the lesson with a do now handout  that reviews graphing, checking a solution for a system and previews a word problem modeled by a system.


  • Excel Software as Accommodation

    I had a 7th grade student with PDD-NOS who was tested at a kindergarten math level. He struggled  with graphing. I taught him to use Excel on the computer to generate graphs and gave him a standing direction to use it whenever we had a graph to complete. The top photo below shows a warm-up…