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Introduce your students to the concept of exponential growth and decay in a real-world context with this interactive project! Students will pick a vehicle from 6 preselected vehicles and a loan from 3 loan offers, calculate how much they owe the bank after 5 years and the value of the car, and create a poster to share their findings with their classmates. Through this project, students will get practice calculating exponential growth and learn about the importance of borrowing wisely. A student

Have your students explore the connections between their personalities and thier multiple intellegences (strengths)! This short activity is designed for students to explore and discover thier strengths and how that may or may not connect to their personality. Students start by taking 3 different online assessments that ask them a variety of questions. Then using the results of these online assessments, they answer three questions. The goal of this activity is to make students more aware of who t

Put the mathetical concepts of exponential growth, exponential decay, and compound interest in a real-world context with this interactive activity. Students will pick a vehicle of their choice and a loan from 4 loan offers. Have students pick their first car, their dream vehicle, or their favorite vehicle their family has ever had. After selecting their vehicles, they will calculate how much they owe the bank after 5 years and the value of the vehicle after after 5 years using the depreciation r

Learn about the real-life application of logarithms with our sound loudness and intensity worksheet. Perfect for high school math students, this ready to print worksheet includes two engaging story problems that challenge students to convert intensity levels into decibels and interpret their results to determine if hearing damage will occur. Utilize this worksheet to deepen students' understanding of logarithms and their relevance in the world around us. To make your life a breeze, an answer key

Get your students exploring parent functions with this interactive worksheet using Desmos! This resource focuses on square and cube root functions and allows students to use sliders to shift and slide the functions to better understand how they work. I used this worksheet with Algebra 2 students and it took them between 10 to 20 minutes to complete. Use it to engage your students in hands-on learning and encourage deeper understanding of parent functions.

Do you need something to fill a few days between units, before a break, or at the end of the school year? Use this resource! This 4 day mini unit on Sets, Set Notation, Unions, Intersections, and Set Builder Notation will give your students a solid foundation on sets and how they are useful in math and the real world. This ready to print note set is broken down into 4 days with each lesson taking 30 minutes or less to teach! With the provided teacher guide, you will be able to get an inside look

Help your students master the continuously compounded interest model with these two practice problems! In this resource, students will use the continuously compounded interest formula A=Pe^(rt) to calculate the value of saving for a camping trip and saving change in a jar. This product includes a full preview, as well as an answer key to check their work. Use these practice problems to give your students the opportunity to apply the continuously compounded interest model in a real-world context

Decorate your classroom with instructional vocabulary posters that your students will be sure to enjoy! The 10 ready to print posters can be printed in color or black and white on any color paper that you wish! The ten posters include: 4 Types of Transformations with Real World Examples4 Types of Transformations with Triangle Only ExamplesTransformations- Congruent vs SimilarTranslationReflection (Line of Reflection)Rotation (Clockwise and Counterclockwise)Dilation (Enlargement, Reduction, and S

Help your students master factoring the greatest common factor (GCF) out of an expression by utilitizing the area model! The area model is a great teaching tool normally reserved for the distributive property, but why should we stop using a model that helps students conceptually understand abstract math concepts like distributing and factoring? This product includes everything you need to have a successful lesson with little to no prep in a google drive folder. Included in this resource is... P

I created this lesson plan outline during college to cover based on a variety of aspects that I liked from other lesson plan templates. This is a fill in the blank style template that I use and still use when I need to make full lesson plans. How do I know it works? I used this lesson plan outline to create my lesson plans submitted to the edTPA. When principals during my teacher interviews saw my lessons, they enjoyed that they could see how I planned for things to go well and anticipated error

Boost students' number sense and mathematical reasoning with this Area of a Circle Pizza Project. This activity is ideal for Pi Day or any day of the year! This hands on math activity has students calculate the area of pizzas and make conclusions about pizza prices and deals, helping students develop critical real world problem solving skills in the math classroom. Included in this resource are teacher notes, detailed examples, project instructions, and a reflection page for a peer gallery walk.

Have your students challenge themselves to find errors and correct them in this error anaylsis! Students are presented a expression to simplify that includes two variables and are given the values of each of those variables (one negative and one positive). They are then presented with 4 student responses where they must find the error or errors and write or calculate what should have been done instead. After seeing a variety of errors, students are then asked to evaluate the expression correctly

This worksheet will have students practicing subtracting positive and negative whole numbers using number lines and integer chips. With this hands on approach students will build the number sense to build an understanding of when their answer will be positive and negative. With the number lines, students will focus on when to move to the right and when to move to the left. With the integer chips, students focus on creating zero pairs and then counting how many positive or negative chips are left

Master Factoring with the Diamond Method: Step-by-Step Guide & Printable ResourcesUnlock the secrets of factoring with our easy-to-follow Diamond Method guide! This comprehensive handout provides clear, step-by-step instructions for factoring trinomials and quadratic equations using the powerful Easy Diamond Method. Students will also find an example to visually see how this technique works, making it easier to understand and apply. Looking for even more factoring resources? My store offers hand

Get the ultimate Factoring Polynomials Bundle!Combining three of the most popular factoring handouts from my store at a discounted price! These easy to use, ready to print worksheets will help your students master factoring different types of polynomials. Tested and proven effective in my own Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 classes, these handouts are designed for maximum student success. Perfect for reinforcing key concepts and improving student confidence in factoring, this bundle is a must have set

Ever wondered how companies, amusement parks, and other businesses decide on the ideal price to charge their customers? The answer is often found through quadratic equations! In this lesson, students will discover how to write quadratic equations to represent revenue. They'll also learn how to identify the vertex of these equations to maximize revenue and determine the optimal price for a company to charge. Once students grasp the math, thought-provoking discussion questions are included to enco

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This ready to print activity is great for individual practice, small group work, notes, and more! Students have the opportunity to use the box method/area model to write equivalent expressions using the Distributive Property. This ready to print activity is written in an We Do-You Try-it format and encourages students to look back on the previous examples to do two questions on their own. This resource includes distributing decimals and fractions and also challenges them to begin to work backwar

This note set is the second day in my four day long Introduction to Sets Mini Unit. The day two notes cover the following learning objectives: 1. I can write a given set in set builder notation. 2. I can find the union of two sets. 3. I can find the intersection of two sets. Looking for something else to help enhance your curriculum? Check out my store for products that include real world applications and fun seasonal activities! If you are not finding something that you would like, please

This handout gives students the steps with visuals on how to factor trinomials when the leading coefficient is not 1. This handout includes the steps as well as an example for students to reference. Check out the other factoring handouts in my store! Factoring Handouts BundleFactoring Trinomials (Easy Diamond Method)Factor by Grouping