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Tax Trackers: Proportions in Action

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students will use proportional reasoning to calculate sales tax and income tax amounts, solve sales tax and income tax problems by determining the tax amount, percent, or amount taxed, and use proportionality to solve multi-step ration and percent problems involving taxes and fees by writing equations

Mortgage Matchup: The True Cost of Credit

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• Project Context: An 11th-grade Financial Algebra project where students act as financial consultants. They are helping a first-time homebuyer evaluate the true cost of a $400,000 home with an $80,000 down payment over a 30-year term. • The Core Math Loop: Students will apply the formulas I = Prt and A = P + I to calculate total interest, overall repayment costs, and monthly payment splits across two different interest rate options (5% vs. 8%). • The Final Artifact: A simple, structured "Credit Tier Comparison Brief" consisting of a clear calculation ledger and a 3–4 sentence strategic summary outlining the lifetime savings of maintaining good credit.

Math Beats: Finding Patterns in Music

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Math Music

Elk Math: Antlering the Numbers

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elk math

Dodge Muscle Car Math Challenge

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dodge muscle cars math

White Sands Word Quest

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LESSON TOPIC/READING: https://www.cnn.com/travel/white-sands-national-park-new-mexico-spc LESSON FORMAT: Transition Tutorial The Major Focus Areas Eliminate phonological deficits and build phonemic awareness Phonics principles and phonic decoding Read connected text All 3 of those things together with activities that support orthographic mapping. Focus Areas Activities Improving Focus Areas Elminate phonological deficits & build phonemic awareness Tracking, deleting and manipulating sounds in words Use David Kilpatrick 1-Min Activities Elkonin boxes and phoneme-grapheme mapping Say it, map it, graph it Focus on “baseline” spelling activities. Spell a syllable at a time. (Chunk it!) Start w/ sound and move to print! Improve Phonics principles & decoding Develop each students decoding toolbox (notebook/flash cards, etc.) Lean on the logic of English (Layers, morphology) Use Words Their Way to introduce a phonics principle Reinforce through real and fake phonics decoding / spelling lists Baseline spelling activities (Chunk it!) Additional Resources: SLD and Angling for Words Ask AI to produce a paragraph/ story with words containing the patterns/rule you are teaching Read connected text Fluency exercises including Six Minute Solutions and Read Naturally Fry Phrases Six-way Paragraph exercises Commonlit.org and associated comprehension exercises Book and related articles

Sound to Story: Your Reading Power-Up

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Transition Tutorial The Major Focus Areas Eliminate phonological deficits and build phonemic awareness Phonics principles and phonic decoding Read connected text All 3 of those things together with activities that support orthographic mapping. Focus Areas Activities Improving Focus Areas Elminate phonological deficits & build phonemic awareness Tracking, deleting and manipulating sounds in words Use David Kilpatrick 1-Min Activities Elkonin boxes and phoneme-grapheme mapping Say it, map it, graph it Focus on “baseline” spelling activities. Spell a syllable at a time. (Chunk it!) Start w/ sound and move to print! Improve Phonics principles & decoding Develop each students decoding toolbox (notebook/flash cards, etc.) Lean on the logic of English (Layers, morphology) Use Words Their Way to introduce a phonics principle Reinforce through real and fake phonics decoding / spelling lists Baseline spelling activities (Chunk it!) Additional Resources: SLD and Angling for Words Ask AI to produce a paragraph/ story with words containing the patterns/rule you are teaching Read connected text Fluency exercises including Six Minute Solutions and Read Naturally Fry Phrases Six-way Paragraph exercises Commonlit.org and associated comprehension exercises Book and related articles maybe in an article of the week format since we have yet to get out book?

My Ripple, My Story: Becoming a Changemaker

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