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High school critical thinking order of operations resources for SMART Notebook
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Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more!
The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Solving Equations and Inequalities- 5 Lessons- A.REI.b3
Common Core State Standards aligned
Standard A.REI.3 - Students can solve for one variable in an equation and inequality.
Included in this Solving Equations/Inequalities bundle:
Lesson 1- Solving 1 and 2 step equations
Lesson 2- Combining like terms then solving for a variable
Lesson 3- Solving Inequalities and graphing on a number line.
Lesson 4- Solving with variables on both sides of the equation (distributive property included)
Lesson 5- Solving Equations/Inequalities Review
Each lesson i
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs!
Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words!
In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo
Grades:
2nd - 12th
How I Teach Evaluating Expressions
This is a 30 page Smartboard file over evaluating expressions. Students learn to plug values in for the variables and use order of operations to solve them. There are plenty of practice problems with answers.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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INTERACTIVE Mind Map w/Doodle Notes Geometry Basics: Segment & Angle Bisection
INTERACTIVE Mind Map with Doodle Notes HS Geometry Foundations: Segment and Angle Bisection / Partition.
Use a visual that helps establish quality work-habits and consistency in mathematical communications.
Lay down the foundations for writing geometry proofs. Make your own instructional video. Show a clear picture of the basic relationships among segments and angles, to avoid frustration with sloppy justifications later in the year.
This lesson contains 11 SmartBoard pages with probing questio
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Riddles and Brainteasers
This is a collection of 54 riddles/brain-teasing exercises that are great for weekly warm-up activities or as a brain break activity when students are overwhelmed. Also great to use as sub plans for an unexpected absence. Each of the questions has an answer as well as an explanation of the answer when necessary.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Common Core Complete Expressions Unit - Algebra 1 -
Rational vs. Irrational Numbers - Interpreting Parts of an Expression - Interpreting Complicated Expressions - Order of Operations
Included in the Smart Board File:
-2 4-Lesson, 60 min per lesson sets of slides (1 per week)
-1 Smart Board file explaining how to teach each area of the lesson most effectively
-2 group projects over parts of an expression and self discovery of what expressions are and what their pieces are
-1 Unit Check Point quiz (completed at the end of week 1)
-1 Unit Test wi
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Grades:
7th - 11th
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ORDER OF OPERATIONS STICKS N CHIPS STYLE - MIDDLE SCHOOL
THIS IS A VERY INTERACTIVE ORDER OF OPERATIONS LESSON. THIS CAN BE USED FOR 6TH, 7TH OR 8TH GRADE MATH BUT IT IS THE FIRST LEVEL. I ALSO HAVE 7TH AND 8TH LESSONS. PEMDAS IS THE ACRONYM FOR ORDER OF OPS AND THIS WILL HELP STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLE WITH COMPUTING ADDITION/SUBTRACTION LAST. USING THE WHITEBOARD, STUDENTS CAN MOVE THE CHEETOS AND DORITO STYLE- THIS KEEPS THEM ENGAGED. THERE ARE OVER 20 SLIDES AND THERE ARE 5 EXTRA EXAMPLES YOU CAN DUPLICATE AND CHANGE. I WANT YOU TO ENJOY AND USE THI
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Beginning Pre-Algebra Smartboard
This file contains all 10 lessons for Chapter 1 of Prentice Hall Pre-Algebra. Topics covered are: variables and expressions, order of operations, evaluating expressions, integers and absolute value, adding integers, subtracting integers, inductive reasoning, looking for a pattern, multiplying/dividing integers, coordinate plane.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
How I Teach Exponents
This is a 42 page Smartboard lesson on exponents. The lesson starts with the explanation of the base and the power. Next the process is explained. From there it goes to the explanation of -2 squared compared to (-2) squared. There is practice on simplifying both of those types first. Next the student has to write expressions using exponents. This leads to solving orders of operations involving exponents. Students should get a thorough understanding of exponents by the end of this lesson! Also in
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Discovery and Inquiry Learning Strategy SmartBoard Lesson
Want to train your students for hands-on, discovery learning? This is an incredibly fun, engaging way to introduce students to the four basic steps in inquiry learning. It uses Greg Tang's Grapes of Math patterns and poems to train students to think of a viable strategy, commit it to paper, share it with others, then reflect on their strategies and the strategies of others to revise their thinking. It is a great way to introduce and use the eight Common Core math practices needed for all effec
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)
I created 'Thinking Time' last year and now all the classes in my school are using it. There are over 100 slides. This is a brilliant tool to have in the class room. It can be used as an exciting early morning work, a time filler on any given day or as a way of really getting the kids into a thinking state of mind. There are slides appropriate to all ages and different cihldren will get different things from the activities. I use this every single day that I'm teaching and the children LOVE
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Secondary/Adult) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Name that integer critical thinking activity
Once students have reviewed all four operations with integers, have them put their knowledge to work creating a game where other students guess their integers based on clues they provide. Samples are provided which model what students are expected to do.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
The Great Gatsby / Roaring Twenties SmartBoard Presentation
The collision of artistic, political, and cultural forces of our early 21st experience is easily matched with a look back at the “Roaring Twenties,” the era which inspired Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This SmartBoard presentation (a social studies/ELA interdisciplinary experience) gives students a colorful look at the many forces which gave us the first “youth generation” in American history. Along with the better-known details (college pranks, stock market booms), many incidents in A
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Grades:
11th - 12th
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Algebraic Expression and Integers
Notes, examples ,practice problems, and quizzes. This can be used to go with an Algebra/ Pre-Algebra course or it can stand alone. Everything is on powerpoint. If you have a smartboard, you can write on it as you go. Works well with challenging students. I will update as the year progresses.
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Order of Operations Games
This resource has 3 different Order of Operations games on a SMART Notebook file. Each game is easy to explain and only requires dice, pencil, and paper for set up. Students get a chance to both create and solve different equations using the Order of Operations. All games are inclusive to all learners and can range from simple adding and subtracting to including brackets, multiplication, and division. Games can be played individually or with a small group, or even used as an assessment. I'v
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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ORDERS OF OPERATIONS; for Smart boards.
Step by step instructions on the orders of operations. 1,2,3 and 4 step expressions to simplify. Many student practice pages with answer keys. Student pages from easy pages to more challenging. All pages are printable. 19 Pages. SMART BOARD software is required to run these files.Thank you for your purchase. If you would like to know about freebies, sales, new resources, click on follow me and you will get this information first.I truly and genuinely appreciate all feedback. I would like to kno
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5th - 10th, Adult Education
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Can you see the order of operations? smartboard game
This smartboard game is designed to review and assess students ability to use the order of operations correctly. It uses positvie integers only. Click on a pair of glasses to go to a question page. Click on the guy with glasses to reveal the correct answer. Click on back to return to the homepage. Use the red x to cover glasses on the homepage to note used questions.
Grades:
5th - 9th
Algebra 1 Intro to Algebra Review Part 1
This review was made using smart notebook software. This 38 question review covers writing algebraic expressions from a phrase, simplifying expressions using order of operations, and operating with positive and negative integers. I use this review after covering chapter 1 materials in the Prentice Hall textbook. My students use student response boards to work out and show me their answers. This review is a great way for them to review all the concepts taught and show them as well as myself how r
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Grades:
7th - 10th, Adult Education
IB Theory of Knowledge - Perception and Culture
A series of SmartBoard Notebook slides with discussion prompts that ask students to consider whether or not their life experience affects the way they view and perceive the world. This discussion can be preceded or followed by an explanation of the role of sensation and interpretation. The prompts could also be used as a ToK in-class writing assignment. The file is easily convertible to PDF format if you choose to use it as a handout.
Grades:
11th - 12th
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Order of Operations for the Smartboard
This lesson explains the meaning of "pemdas" to students and has them apply it. Students first practice deciding the order of the operations and then has them practice getting answers.
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Can You Help These Scarecrows Figure Out Their Names?
Pick the scarecrow whose name you want to figure out and place the
"?" card under his picture. Then follow the numbered cards with the clues to figure out your scarecrows name, then place the pink name card under your scarecrow once you know his name. Have fun!!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Algebra Number Sort: Smartboard Review Game
Algebra Number Sort
Students will solve for y and determine if y is negative or positive. Students will drag the equation icon (alien or monkey) to the corresponding negative or positive "home" (straw hut or space ship). Great interactive smartboard game.
Skills utilized:
Exponents
Radicals
Order of Operations
Absolute Value
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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