The Scaling Lab

An intensive high-school math intervention binder focused on rebuilding foundational rational number operations, equivalent representations, and visual modeling for resource room or co-taught classrooms.

An interactive pre-algebra and algebraic reasoning lesson themed around spycraft and decryption. Students use variables, order of operations, and one-step equations to break secret codes, map hidden locations, and design their own visual ciphers.

A highly visual, print-friendly, color-coded one-page laminated-style reference sheet for geometry students. It breaks down PEMDAS, explains what a variable is, demonstrates 1-step and 2-step equations using inverse operations with dual-direction arrow boxes, and applies these skills directly to geometry perimeter and area problems.

A 10-day instructional unit on rigid transformations and congruence mapping for 8th-grade mathematics, aligned with NC Math Standard 8.G.2. The sequence covers translations, reflections, and rotations, emphasizing coordinate rules, properties verification using patty paper, and composition of transformations to define and prove congruence.

A basic math lesson on sales, discounts, returns, and credits. Designed with accommodations: decodable text, highly familiar store items, minimal word count, large font sizes, extra-large workspaces, and direct dollar-off math with no regrouping across zeros.

A professional 2-page teacher guide and answer key for Cipher Breakers. It outlines teaching pacing, pedagogical strategies for modeling variables, GEMS checklists, common student misconceptions, and fully visualized step-by-step solutions for both the stage 1 equation decryption and the stage 2 coordinate mapping.

A curriculum unit tracing the development of linear equations. Students journey from ancient informal heuristics (False Position) to modern symbolic algebraic equations.

Teaches students how to identify and generate equivalent fractions, find common denominators, and simplify fractions using visual fraction bars and color-coded step-by-step methods.

An immersive, high-impact 5-slide introductory math presentation for the Cipher Breakers lesson. Using a top-secret spy briefing theme, it teaches pre-algebra concepts including variables, inverse operations for one-step equations, and order of operations, with all text sized above 24px for classroom legibility.

A summer-long math intervention bypassing rote memorization of multiplication to build intuitive pre-algebraic thinking using visual grids, helper facts, and balance puzzles.

Focuses on rebuilding foundational understanding of fractions, specifically naming numerators and denominators, interpreting fractional parts, and resolving common high-school misconceptions. Designed for math intervention, resource rooms, or co-taught settings.

A highly engaging, 2-page printable classified math dossier for middle school pre-algebra. Page 1 tasks students with solving one-step algebraic equations to decrypt a top-secret passcode; Page 2 uses order of operations coordinates to chart a hidden safehouse location on an interactive grid.