HOTS for Math

Get students talking by giving them HOT (higher order thinking) questions. The question presented in this resource is "which one does not belong?"More than one answer is possible, depends on the students' justifications. Some answers are more obvious than others. For this reason, this resource is good for a resource class as well as for advanced academic class. There are 15 slides of questions, each followed by a slide with possible answers. Questions include topics from the 8th grade STAAR t

Activity 1: Students will use a graphing calculator to graph a set of pairs of equations to determine if they parallel or not and then use inductive reasoning to make a conclusion about the slopes of parallel lines. Activity 2: Students will do the same for perpendicular lines. Before giving students this activity, make sure they understand what parallel and perpendicular lines look like, and the difference between perpendicular and intersecting lines.