Lucy Behrendt

Food mixed with math! Mmmm hmmmm! Students enter a scenario in which they and a friend are ordering a pizza and have three options: two round pizzas with different radii, and a rectangular pizza. One pizza-eater wants the most crust; the other just wants the biggest pizza! Students must apply the formulas for area (for rectangles and circles), perimeter, and circumference to make a choice about who would order which pizza! They will demonstrate understanding of which part of the pizza is repr

This assessment asks students to apply exponential functions to a real-world, relevant scenario! In addition to doing math, it will make them think about the impact of their words and of social media! Students will understand that spreading rumors can occur exponentially. Students are given a scenario about the spread of a rumor (each person tells ten people, who tell ten people, etc). They fill out a table, answer questions, and create the equation. Then they are asked to describe how it appl

This document includes two different scenarios that can be modeled and solved with systems of linear equations. 1) Students are given pricing info for two different car rental companies and must: write the linear equations make tables for each equation graph them analyze what the solution (the point of intersection) represents answer questions like "which company is cheaper if you're driving 18 miles?" 2) Students are given information about the price of child and adult tickets for a puppet sho

Students are given the pricing for two different T-shirt companies, asked to write linear equations for each company, and then to set them up as a system of equations. After writing the equations, there is a table created that they must fill in and a grid provided on which to graph the equations. They must then analyze the information by answering questions like "Which company would you order from if you ordered 5 t-shirts? What about 15? What about 20?" so that students may analyze the point o

This activity lists and gives visual aids of various quadrilaterals and their unique properties. Students are then asked questions like "How is a parallelogram different from a trapezoid?" Students must understand the various properties and what distinguishes one quadrilateral from another.

This project asks students to apply knowledge of polygons by identifying examples of them in business logos. We all know there's a huge push in Common Core for real-world, relevancy, and application. This project allows students to demonstrate mastery of comprehension over various polygons because in order to find them on their own they must be able to define them and differentiate between them!