Description
Get your students pumped about practicing exponentials with this engaging March Madness-themed activity: Exponential March Mathness ! This interactive resource requires no prep and is packed with 30 problems that help students build their skills in working with all things exponential including word problems, exponents and radicals—no logarithms required!
What’s Inside?
- A bracket-style challenge featuring famous mathematicians in an epic face-off! Students advance through the bracket as they write equations from word problems (both growth and decay), identify rates of growth and decay, find values, make comparisons, and solve equations.
- 30 practice problems that cover:
- Finding values when given equations and from word problems
- Identifying base values for both decay and growth
- Writing equations from word problems (population, amount of medicine in the body) and tables of values
- Comparing values, including linear growth vs. exponential growth
- Solving equations with exponents, radicals, and unknown bases (no logs required)
- Clear instructions and an answer key
Why It’s Awesome:
This resource combines rigorous math practice with a fun and competitive twist, making it perfect for students to strengthen their understanding of exponents while enjoying the activity. Skills in which students tend to need additional practice are also included.
Ideas for use:
- In class - unit review, mid unit review, SBA test prep, other test prep
- Homework - Assign a few "matches" each night based on what you're studying that day.
- Intervention - Use this during intervention groups to reinforce key skills and knowledge.
Extension Idea:
16 Mathematicians go head to head in this March Mathness bracket. Consider having students research the mathematicians and their contributions to the field and/or greater society.
Highlights
Description
Get your students pumped about practicing exponentials with this engaging March Madness-themed activity: Exponential March Mathness ! This interactive resource requires no prep and is packed with 30 problems that help students build their skills in working with all things exponential including word problems, exponents and radicals—no logarithms required!
What’s Inside?
- A bracket-style challenge featuring famous mathematicians in an epic face-off! Students advance through the bracket as they write equations from word problems (both growth and decay), identify rates of growth and decay, find values, make comparisons, and solve equations.
- 30 practice problems that cover:
- Finding values when given equations and from word problems
- Identifying base values for both decay and growth
- Writing equations from word problems (population, amount of medicine in the body) and tables of values
- Comparing values, including linear growth vs. exponential growth
- Solving equations with exponents, radicals, and unknown bases (no logs required)
- Clear instructions and an answer key
Why It’s Awesome:
This resource combines rigorous math practice with a fun and competitive twist, making it perfect for students to strengthen their understanding of exponents while enjoying the activity. Skills in which students tend to need additional practice are also included.
Ideas for use:
- In class - unit review, mid unit review, SBA test prep, other test prep
- Homework - Assign a few "matches" each night based on what you're studying that day.
- Intervention - Use this during intervention groups to reinforce key skills and knowledge.
Extension Idea:
16 Mathematicians go head to head in this March Mathness bracket. Consider having students research the mathematicians and their contributions to the field and/or greater society.
