It’s time to pay it forward. I’m making a version of my Algebra 1 instructional materials FREE FOR EVERYONE. If enough of you clamor for it, we will do this for Elementary, Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Pre-Calculus too.
While our Drive Instruction content is generally editable, We’ve made ‘View Only’ version of the presentation slides open to the public. We think this is the barebones of what a new teacher would need to start 2019-20 off on the right foot. You will also find a link to LIMITED-TIME files with PDF versions of the student notes that go along with them. The warm-ups, exit tickets, digital interactive notebooks and tests that go along with these units are not included in this special offer. If you are not familiar, you can see how they lay out in my free Equations unit.
On a personal note —
I recall being a first-year teacher tasked with four preps and scouring the Henrico County Public Schools website where a teacher freely uploaded a version of this basic content (Meanwhile, I was in Ohio). It was a lifesaver — and not something I would have had the ability to pay for at the time. Obviously I felt I needed more engaging content to reach my learners, and I built it. This was the first inkling I had that I could write and publish content that could reach classrooms around the world. Years later, when I demoed my content to their school district, I had a chance to meet this teacher and thank him. It’s time to pay it forward.
Some may think it’s crazy to make hundreds of pages of content available for free — maybe it is. I started the business with the real world 21st Century Math Projects, higher order thinking STEM-ersions and CSIs, and crowd-pleasing activities like the Escapes and Whodunnits — that make up the other 15,000 pages of math content so we should manage okay 🙂
