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Just because you have an all-groupwork and all-Complex Instruction (CI) format doesn't mean you don't need practice activities too. ...

It was another crappy Friday in an arithmetic series of crappy Fridays that were running together and threatening to define the limit of my ...

UPDATE: Here is a working link to the zip file:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8XS5HkHe5eNNy10MWZVSDNKNnc Last year I blogged about...

In keeping with my Week 1 emphasis in Algebra 1 on activating prior knowledge of how to translate words into mathematical expressions, equat...

Kate Nowak creates some of the most innovative and engaging practice activities anywhere -- especially for those skill/concept areas that a...

One of the things I like best about my new school are my colleagues. In fact, I don't believe I could stand to teach English (instead of...

SBG works so well in my Algebra classroom I've been looking for ways it could transfer into my eighth-grade English classroom -- especia...

Maybe all of  your  Algebra 1 students showed up on Day 1 every year with a solid and fluent grasp of basic number sense, but  mine  sure di...