CreativeMathLessons

Are you introducing proofs for the first time? Are your students struggling with the concept of a proof? I have found that there are very few remediation worksheets on proofs and sometimes it is necessary to go slow until all students get the hang of proofs. It can be frustrating when the textbooks only include one or two examples. I created this very straightforward study guide for beginner proofs. This particular study guide contains 10 proofs. The first 5 are all set up to use the basic S

Tired of teaching the same boring lessons on Circumcenter and Incenter? After years of using the standard book resources, I decided to create this activity that demonstrates some real-life applications of these concurrent points. This product includes 9 tasks (with complete answer key and screen shots of graphics). Each task will ask students to find a real life circumcenter or incenter. (While this product did not include any centroid or orthocenter problems, I left those options on the top

Looking for a new assignment for one of your math classes? I have created this assignment in an attempt to have students become more passionate about math and to see a connection to the real world. In short, this assignment requires students to create a 1-page fact-sheet or Power Point presentation on a particular math career. (51 Printable careers are included) Each student in the class completes their own report and then reports back to the class on their findings. When I am done with all o

Are your students struggling with the concept of counter-examples? Are you teaching Geometry for the first time? Coming up with great true and false statements can be confusing. Use this worksheet to help you introduce formal logic into your class. This printable worksheet contains 20 statements that your students will have to label as true or false. If they are false they must provide a valid counter-example. This can get tricky because some students don't realize that the counter-examples m

Are your students struggling with understanding basic trig functions? Are you looking for something simple that will both excite your students and strengthen their basic trig skills? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this "trig lab" will be perfect for you! Before starting this your students should be familiar with sin, cos and tangent and finding missing side lengths. I created this lab knowing that most of my students have cell phones. In order to complete this lab you wi

Are you looking for a more interesting way to teach the Law of Syllogism? I used this activity in my class last year and the students loved it. First we discussed the "Direct TV" commercials that use a lot of "If - then" statements. If you haven't seen them before they can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-JuG6YMqI (**Disclaimer - Please preview YouTube clips before sharing with your class...NOT ALL CLIPS ARE APPROPRIATE...especially for younger students.) The logic goes som

Are you tired of hearing your students say "When would you ever use this!?" This lesson is a perfect way to silence their complaints! I originally designed this lesson to be used after watching the episode "Convergence"of the CBS television series Numb3rs. I think every middle/HS teacher should own copies of this series. If you aren't familiar with the show, it is basically a crime show where the characters solve crimes with math. (Similar to CSI) You might be able to download free episodes

Testing season is upon us! Even though the Triangle Sum Theorem is technically a topic for Geometry, this concept shows up on a variety of state and national assessments from 5th grade all the way up to 11th grade. These notes offer a simple rules for your students regardless of grade level. Each example is explained in two different ways. "The fancy way" that requires the use of a formula and highlights the strategies used on state wide assessments. The "mental math" explanation works bett

Are you looking for a way to raise the rigor of your math class to meet common core standards but also keep it age appropriate and fun? That is exactly what I was looking for so I created this volume lab for my students. It worked so that I will be using it for many years. Before you download, please know that you will need to have a set of fillable geosolids like the ones found here: http://www.hand2mind.com/item/relational-geosolids/1382 You might be able to improvise but the set I hav

Looking for new way to introduce properties of parallelograms to your students? I created this lab that will take anywhere from 1-4 typical class periods. Here is essential what the tasks are Part 1 - Review some basic vocab Part 2 - Students will measure side lengths, diagonal lengths and angle measures of 3 different parallelograms using rulers and protractors Part 3 - Students will analyze slopes and distances of 3 parallelograms graphed on the coordinate system Part 4 - Students will loo

Having trouble teaching the concepts of Circumcenter, Incenter, Centroid and and Orthocenter? Are you students getting frustrated with all of the different steps? After teaching this lesson for many years in a row I have noticed that even as a teacher I have trouble remembering which segments go with which concurrent point. As a result I have come up with the acronym "PAMACICO" which when written as two columns helps the kids memorize which pieces go together. P goes with C which means that P

Do your students need help with Pythagorean Theorem? We all know that there are a lot of resources available online but it takes time and energy to separate the good resources with the bad resources. This download is a 3-page editable Word document that provides 27 different QR codes and website links to lesson tutorial videos, printable worksheets and online practice for your students. I have pulled resources from Khan Academy, Cool Math, Virtual Nerd and many other sites that address the top

Looking for a new way to start off the year teaching Geometry? For a change of pace, rather than read the rules to the kids on the first day I decided to give them this activity instead. Supplies Needed: Notecards, paperclips, Starbursts, rulers, This is essentially a printable/editable packet with 6 different line segments that the students will measure using 6 different units of measurement. I chose 3 non-traditional units (notecard, paperclip, Starburst) and traditional units (Inches,