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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

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.

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.

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 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 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 trig maze will strengthen your students' skills at evaluating the six trigonometric functions at all of the points of the unit circle.

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

In this exercise, students are asked to be the teacher and grade this test that was taken by a "student". Some questions are correct, and some are not. Some mistakes are computational, while others are skill mistakes. It is the job of the student to go through the test to find and correct the mistakes and deduct points where they think they should be deducted. If you have them work in groups, this provides great review for a real test, and it requires the students to justify their logic. Si

This is a group activity in which the students will practice how to rotate points and figures in the coordinate plane. They will rotate about the origin, as well as other centers of rotation. The activity uses function notation for rotations as outlined by the common core standards for Geometry.

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.

This is an individual exercise that helps the students practice translating a figure, as well as combining translations. It includes the student version and the answer key. The translations are described using function notation as outlined by the common core standards for Geometry.