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I like to call this activity Putt-Putt-Geometry. It is 9 glorious holes of trigonometry application! This works great as a Trig unit project, end of year project, or test review (maybe 1 or 2 holes for review). The students can work in groups, pairs, or individuals. If your students are not proficient with Trig, or you have not covered it yet, each hole can be done using the Pythagorean Theorem instead - simply tweak the directions a bit. I hope your students enjoy this as much as mine do!

This quiz-quiz-trade activity gets the students up, and moving around the classroom while practicing criteria for congruent triangles. It can be used as practice for new material, or as a quick review before a test. Be sure to print double-sided so that the answers are on the back of the cards. Each student should have their own card, and they should be mixing around the classroom looking for another person who needs a quick partner. They meet, greet, quiz each other on the card they are ho

The new Florida Core standards do not include trapezoids or kites in the quadrilaterals section. This jeopardy is therefore a good review for parallelograms. If you teach in a state that does not have the Common Core standards, then my Quadrilaterals Jeopardy is a better fit for you; it covers the trapezoid and kite. All of my "actions" in this flipchart work well, and allow the user to never need the pen tool. Enjoy! (and let others know about my store, please)

This is a fun activity for Algebra 1 students to practice graphing lines in standard form using intercepts. When they are finished, the students will have a "stained glass" image that can then be colored and used as classroom decorations.

This worksheet covers several topics related to functions and their graphs. These topics include: domain, range, positive, negative, increasing, and decreasing intervals, extrema, end behavior, asymptotic behavior, inverses (graphs), one-to-one, symmetry (graphic and algebraic), and finding domains algebraically. I used it for extra credit practice before a quiz in Algebra 2 Honors.

This puzzle is used to review or reinforce logarithm evaluations without a calculator. It requires the students to understand the concept of getting numbers into the same base in order to evaluate the logarithm. Cut the squares out and explain to the kids that they are to match the logarithmic expressions to their appropriate evaluation edge-to-edge. The puzzle prints as the answer key already. This is a great group activity for test review!

This is a quiz-quiz-trade activity for parallelograms. The students should use the information on the card to identify which type of parallelogram can be proven. No other assumptions are allowed to be made - only use the given info. Simply print, cut out, and fold over to have a class set of cards. For those that are not familiar with the quiz-quiz-trade structure, give each student a card. Have them mix around the room looking for quick partners. They pair up, great each other, quiz each

This is a jeopardy review for the entire quadrilaterals section of Geometry. It covers all of the properties using algebra for the 6 quadrilaterals. It has good, working, actions for easy and ambidextrous use at the active board. I hope you enjoy!

These exercises are compositions of rigid motions. All transformations are presented in function notation per common core standards. There are 3 pairs of commuted compositions. The students will be able to see that compositions of transformations are not commutative - order matters. The reflections are all presented in slope-intercept form.

It seems that the hardest thing for the students, when it comes to factoring by special cases, is recognizing when a polynomial is a special case. This puzzle only asks the students to identify which polynomials are special cases, and have a little chuckle at the end. Punchline: The Romans didn't find Algebra very challenging because x was always ten.

This is a matching activity for polynomial graphing. Students must match a polynomial equation to its graph using knowledge of end behavior and root multiplicity.

This is an ActivInspire flip chart focused on transformations. All of the transformations are presented in function notation, as per common core standards. There are mechanical questions (produce an ordered pair after a transformation), and there are "theory" questions (A figure is rotated. Point B and Point B' have the same coordinates. What do you know about Point B?). As with regular jeopardy, the questions increase in difficulty as the point values increase. All of the "actions" on the

Factoring special cases can get boring, or repetitious pretty quick for the students. That is why I created this puzzle. They do not mind going through the motions because they know there is a rewarding chuckle waiting for them at the end. Punchline: It is a shame that they will never meet

This worksheet uses piecewise graphs to practice all of the major features and properties of functions, and includes an answer key. Topics covered are: interval notation, domain, range, increasing, decreasing, constant, extrema, continuity, and types of discontinuities.

In this exercise, students will work with partners or small groups to perform a dice experiment. They roll a pair of dice a large number of times and record the results. They then compare their experimental probabilities to the theoretical probabilities. Eventually, they are asked why there is a difference and how they could remedy it. This exercise requires the teacher to have both white and colored dice.

This exercise requires the student to find simple probabilities, independent and dependent probabilities, and conditional probabilities all from sets of date presented in table form. It also requires the students to have a knowledge of finding conditional probability with an equation. It works great for individual or partner/small group practice.

This is a matching exercise to help students practice solving nonlinear systems. The students should work in groups to match the graphs to the appropriate equations. Then, once they see what the solutions are from the graphs, they should find the solutions algebraically. This helps the students by giving them a graphical representation of what is happening when solving this kind of system.

This activity guides students to discover the angle pair properties when a transversal crosses a pair of parallel lines through the use of rigid motions as per common core standards. The activity requires the students to already be familiar with the terms corresponding angles, alternate interior angles, alternate exterior angles, and same-side interior angles. It also requires the students to know how to perform basic rigid motions (transformations).

This is a handout for Algebra 2 students that highlights parabolas and all of their properties. It includes domain, range, intercepts, increasing/decreasing intervals, min/max, axis of symmetry, vertex, focus, directrix, and examples of each form. This is intended to be used as a study aid during the parabola unit.

This assessment is designed for Common Core Algebra 2 Probability. It covers sample space, independent/dependent events, two-way tables, and overlapping/disjoint events. It does not cover permutations, combinations, or binomial distributions. It can be used as a midchapter test if you plan on covering those topics, a chapter test if you are not going any further.