Helping Students Understand Pre-Algebra, Grades 7 - 8


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Facilitate a smooth transition from arithmetic to pre-algebra for students in grades 7 and up using Helping Students Understand Pre-Algebra. This 128-page book includes step-by-step instructions with examples, practice problems using the concepts, real-life applications, a list of symbols and terms, tips, and answer keys. The book supports NCTM standards and includes chapters on topics such as basic number concepts, operations and variables, integers, exponents, square roots, and patterns.




Catalog


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Close Reading the Media


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Teach middle school students to become savvy consumers of the TV, print, and online media bombarding them every day. In this timely book copublished by Routledge and MiddleWeb, media literacy expert Frank W. Baker offers thematic lessons for every month of the school year, so you can engage students in learning by having them analyze the real world around them. Students will learn to think critically about photos, advertisements, and other media and consider the intended purposes and messages. Topics include: Helping students detect fake news; Unraveling the messages in TV advertising; Looking at truth vs propaganda in political ads and debates; Revealing how big media influences the news we read; Understanding how pictures changed America during the Civil Rights Movement; Exploring the language of film and the symbols of costume design; Thinking about how media appeals to our emotions; Examining branding, product placement, and the role of celebrity; Reading and interpreting iconic news images; And much, much more! In addition, the book¿s lesson plans contain connections to key standards and step-by-step activities you can use immediately. With this practical book, you¿ll have all the tools and ideas you need to help today¿s students successfully navigate their media-filled world.




Understanding by Design


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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.




Resources in Education


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Pre Algebra Doodle Notes: a Complete Course of Brain-based Interactive Guided Visual Notes for Middle School Math Concepts


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The Pre-Algebra Doodle Note Book offers your middle school math student the brain benefits of visual note taking all throughout their coursework! The doodle notes include fractions, decimals, integers, percents, geometry, equations, expressions, proportions, probability, graphs, inequalities, the coordinate plane, slope, linear equations, systems, graphing, and more! Each workbook is licensed for only a single student to use. Copying pages is prohibited. What's included: - Over 170 doodle note pages for key concepts in Pre Algebra - Chapter organizer cover pages - Interactive vocabulary review pages for each chapter (doodle-style!) - Bonus pages! - Answer Key & Photo Samples for doodle note concept pages - Teaching Tips & Introductory Pages - 10 different blank templates for any additional notes Each chapter progresses through the lesson topics with guided notes, visual references, and graphic review sheets that follow the brain-based doodle note method. CHAPTERS: 1: Expressions & Integers 2: Equations & Inequalities 3: Decimals & Factors 4: Fractions 5: Ratios, Proportions, & Percents 6: Geometry 7: Area & Volume 8: Statistics & Probability 9: Formulas & Finance 10: Intro to Algebra Math doodle notes activate both hemispheres of the brain and lead to increased focus and retention! Because of dual coding theory, the student brain can process the new content more easily through the interactive tasks, visual memory triggers, and opportunities to sketch, color, and embellish! This book contains interactive visual note templates. It replaces a notebook (and possibly a textbook, depending on the way you teach), but does not replace your practice problem set. Although the pages do offer some examples and problems, you will definitely want to supplement with plenty of practice / homework on the side as well. TEACHER REVIEWS: "I could not believe the increase in engagement and understanding my students demonstrated! We love these!" "Perfect for students with Dyslexia, ADHD, or other learning disabilities." "My 8th grade summer school who are mostly boys loved coloring the notes. I'm pleasantly surprised! "Doodling helps my daughter's stress level during math lessons!" "Keeps them extremely focused!" "My students absolutely love the doodle notes, and they feel like they retain more information." "The color coding helps them to make connections." "My students and I are loving the doodle notes. They can't believe that I am telling them that they have to doodle. And they love watching me doodle too. Not only that but I have already seen a major increase in their math scores."




Algebra, Grades 7 - 9


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The 100+ Series, Algebra, offers in-depth practice and review for challenging middle school math topics such as radicals and exponents; factoring; and solving and graphing equations. Bonus activities on each page help extend the learning and activities, making these books perfect for daily review in the classroom or at home. Common Core State Standards have raised expectations for math learning, and many students in grades 6Ð8 are studying more accelerated math at younger ages. The 100+ Series provides the solution with titles that include over 100 targeted practice activities for learning algebra, geometry, and other advanced math topics. It also features over 100 reproducible, subject specific, practice pages to support standards-based instruction.




Ready, Set, Write, Grade 7


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Help students learn to write while encouraging them to write about topics that interest them. Open-ended activities cover generating ideas, prewriting, sequencing, writing final drafts, and proofreading.




Pre Algebra


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Appropriate for a wide range of student abilities. Works for both the middle school and high school students preparing for success in algebra.




Common Core Language Arts Workouts, Grade 7


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The Common Core Language Arts Workouts: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language Skills Practice series for grades six through eight is designed to help teachers and parents meet the challenges set forth by the Common Core State Standards. Filled with skills practice, critical thinking tasks, and creative exercises, some are practice exercises, while others pose creative or analytical challenges. These workouts make great warm-up or assessment exercises. They can be used to set the stage and teach the content covered by the standards or to assess what students have learned after the content has been taught. Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.