Algebra 2

As students applied their learning of rational exponents, they discovered the problem of trying to take the square root of a negative number. As this

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Falling for Math

6th Grade How many leaves would it take to cover the basketball court? What would the gas cost to travel the border of the contiguous

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Algebra 2

Students in the Algebra 2 class have recently been exploring rules for exponents. Using those rules they then developed proposals for the meaning of rational

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Middle School Math

6th Grade  In sixth grade math, students are wrapping up some learning on rates. It is easy to put these ideas into real-world contexts, so

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Middle School Math

Algebra I We are finishing up the first section of our unit on linear equations, inequalities, and systems. As this section is foundational to later

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Math Matters

6th Grade Sixth graders are nearing the end of their first unit. Our last set of objectives centers around three-dimensional objects and surface area.  Next

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7th Gr Math

Last week, we used magnetic plastic shapes (Picasso Tiles) to explore and see the relationships between squares and square roots. We built squares of areas,

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