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A fun way to use a real-life movement activity to build foundational skills in unit rate topics. A helpful resource for finding distances is www.onthegomap.com.

This student-led project allows students to choose two colors and their wavelengths, and then go on to graph and find a trigonometric sine or cosine equation for both colors. There are extra exploration questions at the end of the project.

A fun, kinesthetic way to help your students achieve greater mastery of transformations (rotation, reflection, translation). Included is a quick review of the basic transformations, including space to provide clue words that your class commonly uses. The main activity uses individual placement of arrows, then transformations to shift several steps, then instructions to play the partner movement game. Alternatively, the teacher may choose to have one student lead the whole class through their tra

Students will get to practice their skills in both finding areas of sectors and data graphing in this fun pie chart survey activity. Instructions are included for students and teacher on the handout. Students will be required to ask a question, record answers, plot the answers as sectors in a pie chart, and find the areas of the sectors.

This is a Pre-algebra level activity designed to highlight theoretical compound probability. The framework is based on the Powerball lottery, and uses the current jackpot (as of publication). The structure of the worksheet leads to deeper connections about probability and risk, ending on the open-ended question of whether it is worth it to play the lottery. Resource for picking lottery numbers in the final step: https://www.random.org/quick-pick/

Students having trouble taking full, consistent notes? Provide a notes template to them to help give them your vision for how their notes should look.