Greg Savage

Students often struggle to understand how math concepts are useful in everyday life. In this activity, students apply the distributive property to a real life situation by finding replacements for sold out grocery items. For example, on one page of the activity, students are asked to find a replacement for two packages of 12 bottles of water. The students are told that the store currently has 8-packs, 4-packs, and 2-packs of bottled water available. The goal is for each student to recognize tha

This product includes 24 open ended questions about topics within the scope of Algebra 1 (Topics range from simplifying expressions to quadratic functions and equations). Use these questions to facilitate critical thinking among your students and to assess whether your students understand the reasoning behind the rules and procedures they are using to solve problems. You can use these questions in minute papers, pair-share activities, exit tickets, online discussion sets, or any other assessmen

I designed this activity as an opportunity for a calculus student to build an intuitive understanding of why the product rule works. While completing this activity, students develop their intuition by exploring a familiar topic (the area of a rectangle). During this activity, students are led to make the following observations: 1. When the length of a rectangle increases, and the width stays the same, the increase in area equals the increase in length times the width. 2. When the width of a rec

This bundle includes a collection of worksheet activities, each of which leads the student along a path to discover a specific differentiation rule by answering a series of questions.

This pdf contains examples of various types of problems that can be solved by applying the quadratic formula and / or factoring. Most of the problems are "irregular" problems that aren't quadratic equations in standard form. Some of the problems need to be manipulated before the quadratic formula or factoring can be applied. Some of the problems involve a substitution. In some problems, the variable is a dimension of a geometric shape. This problem set includes examples from various topics

In this activity, students discover the power rule by approximating derivatives of functions and by observing that their answers follow the power rule.

In this activity, students discover the chain rule by exploring a common everyday life situation: ordering food from a restaurant.

In this activity, students use color coding to match numbers in an exponential equation with the same numbers in a corresponding log equation.