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Scientific Notation – an Introduction
The instructional unit presented in this post is designed to leverage student understanding of money and relationship between denominations. For example, having two $1 bills and one quarter has the same value as one $1 bill and five quarters. Scientific Notation is introduced at the end. Meaning Making My first step in presenting a new…
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Introduction to 2 Variable Inequalities
Previously, I shared how I use a Google Jamboard to introduce 1 variable linear equalities with a focus on conceptual understanding. I use the same approach for the 2 variable version (example problem below). A conceptual gap that typically arises is the students do not understand what the shading represents. This is what I am…
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Life Skills Math – Not So Easy
As I wrote previously, shopping is dense with math tasks as are grocery stores. Here are some division situations that are sneaky challenging and require a student to know when and why to divide before even reaching for the calculator. I will use these to help illustrate the fact that life skills math is not…
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Introduction to Inequalities
For students with special needs, the teacher speaking “math” to students sounds like the teacher from the Peanuts cartoons. This is apparently the case when students are learning about inequalities such as x < 4 because I have seen many high school and college students struggle with this topic. The challenge is that teachers are…
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Intro to Graphing Inequalities
For years over many settings from middle school to college I have witnessed students struggle to make sense out of inequalities like x < 4. Not only is the concept of an inequality of an inequality challenging, merely reading the symbol is problematic. This post shows an concept based approach to making sense of inequalities.…
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Counting Out Value of Coins
