Bringing Math Forward

The PowerPoint presentation defines and illustrates tessellations. There are multiple examples which include different transformations: translation, rotation, reflection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ The student project allows students to express their creativity by creating their own tessellations. They are allowed to use different transformations in order to create their tessellation. A grading rubric is included as well as a l

This project allows students to create a tessellation using a shape they determine and any transformations that they can use. The project allows students to use only translations or to add in reflections and/or rotations. More points are awarded for using multiple transformations and for creativity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ If you purchase this project, a link to a Google doc with the student info is included in the purchase.

In this STEM project, students will design, build, test, and redesign straw rockets to collect data on flight time and distance. Students will then use lines of best fit, slope, and y-intercept to analyze the data they have collected and make recommendations as to the best design.

This STEM project uses operations with rational numbers in a real-life situation. While not necessary, the project is designed to be cross-curricular with math, social studies, and ELA. Students study the biomes of a certain continent or region and create a poster which analyzes the rainfall throughout the year. Students then design, re-design, and create a rain gauge to collect and measure rainfall locally; the rain gauge is built from recycled materials.

This bundle contains six products: 3 PowerPoints and 3 student worksheets. The products cover graphing the quadratic functions: y = ax^2, y = ax^2 + c, and y = ax^2 + bx + c. The PowerPoints contain examples for students to follow along with or complete as well as step by step instructions for graphing. The student worksheets allow students to demonstrate mastery of these concepts, and answer keys are included.

This bundle contains a video and Promethean Board flipchart which clearly explain how to solve mult-step equations; they contain step-by-step instructions as well as student examples. The worksheet requires students to write and solve multi-step equations to determine the measures of angles of different polygons. The STEM project requires students to design and build one of these polygons. All three may be used together or separately or in any combination. The STEM project can be differentiated

This document contains two student activities: a worksheet with multi-step equations and a STEM project. Both involve students using information about an animal pen in different shapes. For the worksheet, students must write and solve equations to determine the measures of angles of pens in the shapes of different polygons. In the STEM project, students must design and build a model (but not a scale model) of the pen which the teacher assigns them. There are links to Google docs for the workshe

This activity allows students to explore quadratic functions in a real-life scenario, braking distances for cars travelling at different speeds. Students will research braking speeds through a webquest and will then answer questions both on reading comprehension and math skills. Then they will create a graph and use it, and the quadratic function, to answer questions about braking distances and speeds.

There are three items in this bundle: an introductory PowerPoint with vocabulary and examples on both the theorem and the converse, a student worksheet with problems on the theorem and its converse, a STEM project in which students create a stained glass window.

In this bundle, three items are included. The first is an introductory PowerPoint which explains the Pythagorean Theorem and which has student examples. Secondly, there is a student worksheet where students can apply what they have learned; there is a link to a Google doc with the student portion of the worksheet. Finally, there is a STEM project in which students must design and build a home for a gnome.

This bundle includes a PowerPoint presentation which has step by step instructions for finding interquartile range both with and without a graphing calculator. Additionally, the bundle includes a hand-out for students with step by step directions for finding the interquartile range, both with and without a graphing calculator. Finally, there is an activity sheet with problems for students to determine interequartile ranges and interpret box and whisker plots.

This worksheet includes two types of problems: students are asked to describe graphs of quadratic functions without graphing and students are aksed to graph functions. There are two formats included: one with spaces for student answers and one without. Answer key is included.

This bundle includes an introductory PowerPoint and a student worksheet on the Pythagorean Theorem as well as an introductory PowerPoint and student worksheet with an added activity on the distance formula. Answer keys are provided for both workhsheets as well as the distance formula activity. Also included is the STEM project, Pythagoras' Stained Glass Windows.

Using the Pythagorean Theorem, students design and create right triangles. They then integrate these right triangles into a stained glass window. This STEM project can be cross-curricular with ELA as students will describe impressions of their observations of stained glass windows. A detail rubric is included to help with assessment. The final products look beautiful when posted on a sunny window.

Finding standard deviation and interquartile range can be challenging for students. The presentations and the notes in this bundle break down the processes with step by step instructions. The bundle combines two powerpoints to explain how to find both standard deviation and IQR and two documents with students notes on finding both with and without a graphing calculator as well as student problems on both processes.

This bundle contains two projects. The first is Resizing the Classroom: Creating Scale Drawings of Everyday Objects. This project is a straightforward activity in which students create a scale drawing of an object in the classroom. The second project is the Monument STEM Project. Here, students design and build a scale model of a monument for a mathematician or scientist. The second project is easily converted into a cross-curricular project by using cultures studied in Social Studies and incorp

This bundle combines a powerpoint presentation and a student activity. Both products look at scatter plots, trend lines, equations of lines of best fit, correlation coefficients, residuals, and predictions. In the powerpoint, there is an example which can be reviewed by the teacher followed by an examples students can work on. Embedded in the presentation are instructions for using the STAT function on a graphing calculator to determine the equation of line of best fit and the correlation coeffi

In the Go Go A Logo activity, students create a logo for a new ultimate Frisbee team and the logo must be according to the owners' specifications. One requirement is that the logo contain at least one transformation (dilation, translation, reflection, rotation). Students are required to explain their transformations and their logos. The videos which accompany the activity explain the four types of transformations. Also, the videos include vocabulary, notes, and/or student problems to help insure

This bundle contains the four videos for transforming figures in the coordinate plane. Each video has vocabulary, notes, and/or student problems to the help teachers identify students who have watched and participated in the videos. Each video is accompanied by an ActivInspire flipchart. The titles of videos, their lengths, and the student requirements may be found in the free "Summary of Student Requirements for Videos" found in my store.

This worksheet allows students the opportunity to determine axes of symmetry and vertices for simple quadratic functions of the form, y = ax^2. Additionally, students are able to graph different functions. Two forms of the worksheet are included, with and without space for student graphs. An answer key is included.