Tips and Tricks for Teaching Students How to Solve Linear Equations
Solving linear equations is an immensely important skill for middle and high school students to master. It is imperative that students understand what they need to do and why they need to do it. In this post, I would like to share some of the strategies and resources I use in my eighth grade math classes. https://www.pinterest.com/freetodiscover/
Language of Math poster
This Language of Math poster has helped my Algebra students so much over the years. One of the hardest things in Algebra - or any math course, really - are word problems. Once students see that word problems can be directly translated into symbols, and that those symbols turn into solvable equations, Algebra really starts to make sense! I made this Language of Math poster to help students translate word problems into equations to solve. Here is the version I printed for my classroom: