Group Activity

Challenge your 7th graders to think strategically and flex their integer operation skills with Expression Maker: Integer Operations Puzzles! This engaging math puzzle set includes eight progressively challenging task cards where students fill in...

This lesson bundle includes all 3 of my 8th grade BTC thin slicing mini-lessons on the properties of exponents: Multiplying Powers, Dividing Powers, and Power to a Power. Each lesson contains task cards that are "thin sliced" to help guide students to...

Looking for a ready-to-use 8th grade math lesson that helps students truly understand exponent rules? This Power to a Power Mini-Lesson is designed using the Building Thinking Classrooms “Thin Slicing” approach,...

Looking for a ready-to-use 8th grade math lesson that helps students truly understand exponent rules? This Dividing Powers Mini-Lesson is designed using the Building Thinking Classrooms “Thin Slicing” approach,...

Thin Slicing lessons are a great way to engage students and get them thinking critically about math. Using the "Building Thinking Classrooms" strategy of instruction, these three lessons help students discover how to solve a system of equations...

Team Target Review is a great way to get your students working together and talking about critical math concepts in your classroom. Teams of students work on increasingly challenging problems on a specific Common Core Standard, and their work can easily...

Solve and Switch is a round robin style group activity in which students practice creating, graphing, and solving systems of equations based on real life situations. Students work in teams to complete four different tasks, each student completing a...

Ever needed a review activity on solving equations with variables on both sides that was fun and engaging for your students? Team Target Review is a cooperative and competitive activity designed to get students thinking, talking, and working together...

Ever needed a review activity on solving multi-step single variable equations that was fun and engaging for your students? Team Target Review is a cooperative and competitive activity designed to get students thinking, talking, and working together...

This lesson has everything you need to teach a "Thin Slicing" lesson estimating irrational square roots to the nearest tenth for 8th grade math (8.NS.A.1 and 8.NS.A.2). These progressively challenging task cards start students with simple perfect square...

This lesson has everything you need to teach a "Thin Slicing" lesson on writing exponential functions from a graph for Algebra 1. These progressively challenging task cards start students with comparing and contrasting linear and exponential graphs, then...

This "Thin Slicing" activity on the Pythagorean Theorem gets your 8th grade students thinking about geometry and right triangles. These progressively challenging task cards start students with simple equations with square roots and right triangles and...