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Let’s Get Started

  • Online Community [Discourse] - Talk with other Bootstrap teachers, ask questions, and share ideas!

  • Remote Instruction [link] - specific recommendations for in-person v. remote instruction.

  • Poster Set for Classroom Walls [link] - This poster set features Pioneers in Computing and Mathematics. For greater impact, engage your students with these materials using our Computing Needs All Voices lesson.

  • Information for Families about Bootstrap:Algebra [link]

Standalone Hour of Code Activities from Bootstrap

  • Hour of Data [link] - A self-guided Desmos activity for exploring a real dataset to make sense of a real-world problem.

  • Snowman Puzzle [link] - This WeScheme Starterfile has all the pieces your students will need to make a snowman by changing the coordinates in the code.

Exercises and Solutions

 

Notes, Slides, and Starter Files

Projects in Bootstrap:Algebra

The Bootstrap:Algebra curriculum includes three mini projects, each designed to span 2-5 class periods. Projects allow students to express their creativity while showcasing their math and programming skills.

Building an original video game is the (optional) capstone project for Bootstrap Algebra. This project involves all of the various algebra and programming concepts covered in the lessons, providing students with a creative way to demonstrate their mastery of the material.

Other Curricular Materials

  • Contracts [PDF] - for teachers who want only the contracts reference from the back of the student workbook, without using the entire book.

  • Glossary [link] - All of the vocabulary words (and their definitions) used in this pathway.

  • Bilingual Glossary of Bootstrap Terms (English-Spanish) [PDF] - For teachers with ELL/ESL students, we provide a bilingual glossary for all of the terms used across our curriculum library.

  • Blank Design Recipe Worksheet - [html] - Use alongside story problems for a function development template.

  • Design Recipe Rubric [html]

  • Collection of Bootstrap:Algebra Desmos Activities [link]

  • About Notice and Wonder pedagogy [PDF]

Textbook Alignment

We offer alignment guides for several popular math textbooks, which make it easy to adopt Bootstrap as part of your normal scope and sequence. These guides are available for:

  • Illustrative Math (Grade 6) - [HTML, PDF]

  • Illustrative Math (Grade 7) - [HTML, PDF]

  • Illustrative Math (Grade 8) - [HTML, PDF]

  • Illustrative Math (HS) - [HTML, PDF]

  • Connected Mathematics - CMP3 (Grade 6) - [HTML, PDF]

  • Connected Mathematics - CMP3 (Grade 7) - [HTML, PDF]

  • Connected Mathematics - CMP3 (Grade 8) - [HTML, PDF]

Videos for Teachers

Developed in partnership with Code.org

Modeling and Coordinates

Order of Operations

Domain and Range

Defining Values

Introducing The Design Recipe

Using The Design Recipe

Boolean Logic & Inequalities

Piecewise Functions

The Pythagorean Theorem

These materials were developed partly through support of the National Science Foundation, (awards 1042210, 1535276, 1648684, 1738598, 2031479, and 1501927). CCbadge Bootstrap by the Bootstrap Community is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Unported License. This license does not grant permission to run training or professional development. Offering training or professional development with materials substantially derived from Bootstrap must be approved in writing by a Bootstrap Director. Permissions beyond the scope of this license, such as to run training, may be available by contacting contact@BootstrapWorld.org.