MathMUDtician

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 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.

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