One step equations activities

Playing games in a math classroom isn’t all about fun and, well, games. While games are undeniably more fun than worksheets, I’ve also seen my students get so much more math practice, and answer so many more math questions, through games. One game that’s always a hit, while being simple to set up and play, […]

Can I say that I am a little obsessed with my One-Step Equations Booklet ?! I absolutely love colors, and I made sure to make my booklet po...

Partner scavenger hunt math activities get math students working together as they solve problems. Each student in a pair gets a unique set of problems to solve. The problems are different but the correct answers are the same! Students have incentive to work together until their answers match. Teachers re loving these activities for math review, stations, centers, partner work and even when their classes have a sub. You can check out all the middle and high school math partner scavenger hunts…

My history with teaching multi-step equations hasn’t been a pretty one, but spoiler alert, there’s a happy ending. A few years ago I was co-teaching with a relatively new teacher and I felt a lot of pressure to show him the ropes. I was new to the 8th grade math standards. Everything was going well […]

In 8th grade we expect that students already know how to solve one step equations. Many of them do, but there are others that struggle with them. I work with students who qualify for math lab, a second dose of math during the day. The majority of my students missed basic concepts when they were […]

Teaching multi-step equations the first time to 150 8th graders was my most epic fail as a teacher. Teaching it to them the second time was my 2nd most epic fail as a teacher. It was embarrassing because I was co-teaching with a new teacher and I was supposed to be the expert. Yikes! After […]

Use this algebraic equations activity to help your middle school math students practice solving one-step addition and subtraction equations.

Bingo is a great algebraic equations activity to help middle school math students practice! They're engaged and focused on solving equations.