Engaged Math Students

Payday is an awesome interactive board game similar to the game of Life. Students start with $400,000 and life events cause them to gain or lose money. At the end of each year, students calculate the yearly exponential growth to get their new balance. The first student to $1,000,000 wins. Students are involved and excited to play this game. This is a good formative assessment tool to see if student understand this algebraic topic. The student score sheet is a way to collect their work and asse

In this exploratory lesson, students leverage their knowledge of similar triangles and proportionality to investigate the tangent ratio. This is truly a student-centered task as they can make sense of trigonometry in an independent way.