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What is the best point to check to decide whether to fill in to the left or right of the solution point? For example, if I have to make...

When is something proportional? This is a little more complicated than it seems. I get paid $10/hr for babysitting. The amount of money...

7th graders are reviewing commutative and associative properties. Commutative property is that you can change the order of the terms...

Ask your 8th grader for an example of less than vs an example of less than or equal to. For example, if you give your child $5 to spend,...

Ask your 7th or 8th grader what the difference is between an expression and an equation. An example of an expression would be 8p + 4g...

You notice that the temperature has been going down three degrees per hour. Currently the temperature is zero degrees. What calculation...

You are the owner of a hot chocolate business. You plot your sales on the y-axis vs. high temperature for the day on the x-axis. You...

Ask your student why a negative number times a negative number equals a positive number. For example, why does -2 -5 = +10 ? 7th...

Unit test 3 on Wednesday! How is a correlation coefficient of -1 like a correlation coefficient of 1? (both are perfect correlations,...

Ask your 7th/8th grader what they multiply by to have 10% growth. An easy number to start with is 100. Then ask them what they would do...

You run a campaign to increase the number of members in your club. You go from 100 members to 200 members. What was the percent...

Ask your student which is the input and which is the output in the equation y=mx+b. In the situation that a babysitter get $10/hr and $5...

Yesterday we asked everyone to work on this problem: After some coaxing the students set up the ratio And they figure out that at 5%, if...

You study for the weekly math test. One week you study for an hour and get a 71. Another week you study for two hours and get a 79. A...

This comes a lot in percents. Let's say that 5 of the 7 teachers are aliens. What percent are aliens? Divide the part by the whole: ...

Ask your 8th grader what a residual is. Let's say that a student averages $10 per minute of fund-raising at carpool time. On a...

Here is the Math 1 EOC practice test  published by North Carolina.  Here is a  playlist of video solutions  to all of the problems in the...

If you make $5/hr for babysitting and get a $6 bonus just for showing up, what is the slope of the line describing your income vs hours...

Ask your 7th grader how to convert a decimal into a percent.

Ask your 8th grader the difference between a histogram and a bar chart