Math Counts

This is a test on the Pythagorean Theorem. It assesses that students can square numbers, take the square root of numbers, and estimate between which two consecutive integers a square root falls. There is Pythagorean theorem application, including straight forward solving for a missing side of a triangle, word problems and some geometry.

This is a matching activity. Students will cut out 30 cards (15 unsimplified exponential expressions & 15 simplified exponential expressions) and match them.

This is a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire? review game for the Pythagorean Theorem. It includes word problems. Names of students or teachers used in the game may need to be changed.

Students need to explain why any base (other than zero) raised to the zero power is always 1, and why 4 raised to the -1 is 1/4, in addition to practicing simplifying exponential expressions and simplifying polynomial expressions with addition, subtraction, and distribution (no foil method).

Given values to substitute into the standard form equation for absolute value, y = a[abs(x-h)]+k, students solve for a missing variable.