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This lesson plan and activity were created to allow students to explore a real life situation involving graphing circles. Students will get lots of practice writing equations for circles and graphing circles on a coordinate plane as well as using some problem solving skills to make their own decisions. A lesson plan with some estimates of time are included in the pages. Make sure students have graph paper that has at least 40 units total for the x-axis.Standard graph paper from the store normall

Students will measure given parts of a triangle and then finish drawing the triangle to determine if the triangles are congruent based on the given parts. This allows students to see what parts are necessary to have congruent triangles. It also gets students good practice measuring angle with a protractor.

This assignment provides students with practice on both the distance and midpoint formulas. In the assignment students will use the formulas to determine distances between states using a map converted into a coordinate plane. This assignment is great for middle school and high school geometry lessons.

These activities have students interact with playing cards and dice to practice with theoretical and experiment probability. Questions on the worksheet vary in difficulty.

This handout provides students with an outline for notes that the teacher can guide them through. These notes cover the basic trig functions and how to use them to solve for missing sides and angles of right triangles. Provided with this is a version of the notes already filled out, but there is plenty of room to add any extra content.

This scavenger hunt reviews how to use law of sines and law of cosines to find missing angles and sides of a triangle, how to use right triangle trigonometry (sohcahtoa) to solve for missing sides and angles of a triangles, how to solve word problems involving the angle of elevation and angle of depression, how to use special right triangles to find missing sides of triangles, and how to determine the area of a triangle.

This assignment uses real world situation that require students to use their knowledge of quadratic functions to answer questions for each given situation. Students should be able to find the vertex of a quadratic and determine if it's a maximum or minimum. The should also be able to use the quadratic formula to determine the zeros of a quadratic functions or to solve for a given value of the quadratic. Finally students should be able to use this information to graph the quadratic that will repr

This scavenger hunt reviews how to factor quadratics, use the quadratic formula to get irrational and imaginary solutions, find the vertex of a quadratic, solve word problems that require quadratic formula and finding the vertex, and some knowledge of quadratic inequalities. This is a great way to get students moving around the classroom.

This scavenger hunt provides students with a review of how to determine domain and range of an exponential graph, solve exponential and log equations, solve natural log equations, solve exponential word problems, and solve equations that require the properties of logarithms.

These EOC practice items are intended to look like the new style of testing for Algebra II in Kentucky based on the example item that the state released and the topics they suggested review. There are 5 items with 4 multiple choice problems and an open response style problem. The 5 topics for the items are: absolute value, quadratics, polynomials, exponentials, and rational word problems (work/rate)

This worksheet provides students with guided notes and a concept map that will help students understand the steps to solving special right triangles given any specific side. I have had a lot of trouble getting students to understand how to solve special right triangles and this concept map has really made that a lot easier. There are also several practice problems with answers provided to get students used to using the map.

This activity allows students to explore transformations with Absolute Value Functions by breaking down each type of transformation and having students reflect on their graphs. This is a really helpful intro activity because the only prior knowledge needed is how to graph using an x/y table. Make sure students have rulers and colored pencils for the activity.

This scavenger hunt reviews how to classify triangles, solve similar triangle problems, solve for missing sides of a triangle with Pythagorean Theorem, solve word problems using the Pythagorean Theorem, identify the types of triangle congruence, solve for missing angles in a triangle using the triangle sum theorem, and finding the area of a triangle.

Students will learn and takes notes on each quadrilateral by measuring them and discussing as a class or in groups what the properties of specific quadrilaterals are. This can be adjusted to only include properties that you may want middle school students to know and up to a high school geometry class.

In this activity/project students will learn about the counting principle while integrating total cost into each possible outcome. The students will work through a given example that models what they will do for their own project. This project allows students to be creative with tree diagrams and is a good introduction into probability.