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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

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 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

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.

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 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.

This exercise covers the graphs and properties of parabolas written in vertex form, standard form, and intercept form. It is intended for Algebra 2 students, but will work for any course that studies conic sections.

This scavenger hunt activity is a great way to have students review before a test of parabolas and their properties. It covers vertices, foci, axes of symmetry, increasing and decreasing, all forms of quadratics, intercepts, etc. The theme is Halloween because that is when I generally taught the material to my students.

This exercise is designed to walk students through the discovery of the function transformation rules. It is part of both the Common Core Algebra 1, and Algebra 2 courses. The only prior knowledge that is required is to be able to evaluate absolute values. A lesson formalizing the function transformation rules should follow this exercise.

This worksheet will help students find the domains of functions using algebraic skills. The functions include rational functions, radical functions, and complex fractions (nested fractions). The skills needed are, but not limited to, solving quadratics and polynomials by factoring, polynomial inequalities, sign diagrams, solving proportions, and general understanding of graphing. This sheet can used for homework, enrichment, or test review. It would be useful for Algebra 2 Honors, Intermedia

This exercise is designed to teach the students to recognize equivalent forms of quadratics, and to find their key features along the way. It is set up in a way that requires the students to use features as clues as to how to write the equivalent forms. It also requires the students to graph the equations that they find.