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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”...

Turn integer practice into an engaging challenge with this Level Ups: Adding & Subtracting Integers activity for 7th grade math! Students progress through five scaffolded levels, starting with prerequisite skills and moving toward complex,...

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...

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...

Do you need a fun and effective way to teach algebra to students? Algebra will help students learn this in a logical and engaging way.   The concepts are: recognizing algebraic expressions, variables, coefficients and...

Ratios, Rates, and Proportions contains six lessons created for Grade 7-8 students. Each lesson begins with instructions and examples to introduce new concepts. After that, the teacher can do a few practice questions with the class. At this point,...