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Interactive Notebooks

Empower the Student Experience through my Digital Notebooks

My digital notebook units were developed to mirror the content from my curriculum units. Therefore, they were specifically designed for digital instruction and include audio, small videos, movable pieces, boxes to type in and more. There is currently an ever changing landscape of education and the classroom environment. With that, I wanted to continue to

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5 Tips

Tips for Teaching Multi-Step Equations

I’m not currently in the classroom, as most of you know, but I do have a 7th grade daughter who is working through advanced 7/8 math virtually. It is NO fun for her and very difficult since she can’t be with her teacher. So, I’m doing a LOT of teaching with her at home. She

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5 Tips

5 Tips – Introducing Equations

This post contains amazon affiliate links.  Whether children realize it or not (ok, they don’t realize it), they start solving equations in FIRST grade. As soon a students begin discussing fact families, they begin getting their brain ready to understand and solve equations. Children as young as 6 can answer the question, “If 5 +

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5 Tips – Systems of Equations

For all of my life, I’ve been a self-proclaimed math nerd. Math has always come easy to me and I actually ENJOY solving equations. Crazy, right? For me, systems of equations are simple to solve. It just makes sense to me. But for MANY people, many of your students included, it doesn’t make sense. It

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Digital

Quickly Make Any PDF into a Digital Resource

When most of you were facing digital instruction, you were scrambling to find resources that were compatible with the online programs you were using.  I was getting so many questions about when (not if) complete curriculum and basically every single resource I’ve ever created would be made digital. That is a task I could honestly

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