Greg Savage

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

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.