Thin Slicing Lesson

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,...

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

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...

This lesson bundle includes all four of my 8th grade thin slicing lessons on solving & writing single variable linear equations. Each lesson contains task cards that are "thin sliced" to help guide students to think through and learn the concepts in...

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...

This lesson has everything you need to teach a "Thin Slicing" lesson on writing exponential functions from a table of values for Algebra 1. These progressively challenging task cards start students with simple growth and decay functions in the form...

This "Thin Slicing" activity on comparing linear functions gets your 8th grade students thinking about linear functions. These progressively challenging task cards start students with simple proportional relationships and progress up to writing a linear...

This lesson has everything you need to teach a "Thin Slicing" lesson on writing single variable equations from a word problem or real world scenario. These progressively challenging task cards start students with simple algebraic expressions and...