Saturday, October 31, 2009  Story of 1  I was clued in to the
existence of The Story of 1 a couple of weeks ago from my
twitter PLN. I had my sub show it to my algebra 1 classes when I
was out of town, and it seemed to go well. Then, one of my
colleagues was sick this week and did the same lesson. Her sub
said that the students were really engaged with the movie. I
couldn't find a question guide on-line for it (though I didn't
search all that long), so I made one up.  Tuesday, October 27,
2009  Algebra 1: Solving Equations Puzzle  Here is a puzzle
activity for reviewing equation solving. I found that it worked
better when I made an answer mat for students to put their
pieces onto (I indicated a couple of pieces on the mat to help
them align the rest of their pieces).  Here are two files in
Pages and Word that you can work from to make your own.  A
comment from David Wees in a previous post with a similar puzzle
I did for quadratics:  Yeah your puzzle is cool. So cool that
I've created a random generator in Ad