Comments on: Horizontal and Vertical Number Line Foldables for Interactive Notebooks

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 02:24:44 +0000

This is brilliant! Thank you!

By: Lance Bledsoe

Lance Bledsoe — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 12:52:05 +0000

Thanks so much for this awesome blog post! Tons of great info and pix.

By: Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)

Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 01:08:14 +0000

In reply to Anna. Brilliant idea!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:44:03 +0000

In reply to Anna. Hi, My name is Kathy Theriault and I teach in a small middle/high school in northern maine. I love your interactive notebooks and have them for my special education math classes and my regular math classes as well. I love this number line and it works great with my students. I added scotch tape on the number line so that students could use a dry erase marker to graph and then wipe them off :)

By: Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)

Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 04:38:10 +0000

In reply to Unknown. Great to hear, Lisa!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:38:19 +0000

Hi Sarah! Just wanted to let you know I used your horizontal number line this year. The vertical one completely confused my special education students. It worked perfectly. Glued it to the top of the back inside cover of our notebooks and it rests right across the top of the open notebook when we unfold it. Thanks for taking that extra time!

By: Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove)

Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:23:37 +0000

In reply to mda. Great idea!

By: mda

mda — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:50:42 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for all of the great ideas you have presented. I've taken this one and added my own tweak by covering the number line with clear packing tape. This works great for my younger students who can then use a dry erase marker for skip counting and other problem solving. For the older students I love your idea of both a vertical and horizontal number line. I color code them with the x and y axes they use blue for horizontal and green for vertical. It really seems to help them keep things straight.

By: Math Dyal

Math Dyal — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:56:35 +0000

Today I used your vertical number line to reteach finding midpoints and endpoints in Geometry. I gave students little blocks and we marked the endpoint and midpoint and then found the other endpoint. Just like your experience with the slope formula, the students were making a mess of using the midpoint formula to solve for a missing endpoint. When they saw it on the number line, it was very intuitive where the midpoint or endpoint would be. Now the concept actually makes sense to them. I can't wait to try the same with slope in Algebra 1. Thanks for sharing!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:54:43 +0000

Last year I drew a number line on the white board for(presumably) just one lesson. I was surprised at how beneficial the visual representation was for students even at the high school level. I left it up for the remainder of the year and we referenced it often. This year I was trying to think of way for each student to have his/her own number line and then I saw yours. AMAZING!! I love it. I've already copied it and we added them into our INBs today. One adaptation I made was to overlap the paper with the cover. The left edge of the number line is about a half inch inside the right edge of the back cover. The students can still see the number line but the pages in the notebook keep it pinned down while in use.

I've borrowed a lot of your ideas. They're all wonderful. Thanks for sharing.