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This first page of this document is a 12 problem circuit, requiring that students use multiple techniques of factoring, including: GCF factoring, factoring by grouping, difference of squares, sum of cubes, difference of cubes, perfect square factoring, and general trinomial factoring (without reference to the specific technique being used). Additionally, two problems require multiple stage factoring. The second page is an answer key. I am offering this resource without charge because, though t

This worksheet uses data from two college basketball teams to allow students to explore the normal distribution. Problems focus on z-scores as well as probabilities based on the normal distribution as the students compare the heights of NCAA men's basketball players to the distribution of heights of men in the U.S.

In this practice worksheet, students are given two sets of data: the heights of the players on the University of Kentucky and the University of Connecticut men's basketball teams. Using this data, students explore quartiles, box-and-whisker plots, and outliers. Discussion questions have the students compare and contrast the two plots to make judgments about the data.

This document provides a summary of the function transformations, including: translations, reflections, and dilations. The document is meant to be a resource for students as they practice their transformation skills. This update contains a second page with two modeled examples to demonstrate how the transformation summary on the first page may be used to sketch the graphs of two sample functions (quadratic and square root).

We have used this study for a number of years as a resource for our students leading up to the state-wide mandated testing at the end of the year. Many students have seen this material in the middle of the school year and need the refresher in forms of equations, slope, parallel and perpendicular lines, graphing equations, writing equations, vertical and horizontal lines and x- and y-intercepts. The first two pages can be used as a stand-alone study guide, while the next four pages are practic

The "Minute 'Minders" series is designed to be a set of worksheets that can be used to review prerequisite concepts in a given class. They are meant to be used as quick warm-ups (each a single page) to refresh students' memories about concepts they are already familiar with, but in our teaching experience they may have forgotten. The Algebra Minute 'Minder has seven worksheets on the following topics: -Operations with integers -Operations with rational numbers (1) -Operations with rational num

This document contains the color version of our Factoring Flowchart, teacher notes and a model example on factoring, an 8 problem student worksheet, and an answer key with each problem worked out step-by-step.

This worksheet has 5 factoring practice problems, each of which requires at least two steps to fully factor the polynomials. With each problem there is a factoring checklist where the students are required to reflect on the techniques of factoring used. Note: because of the nature of the problems, these work best after the students have mastered the basic techniques of factoring. The worksheet would be appropriate for small group practice or for homework.

This 40 problem, nine page document (8 practice pages with 1 answer key page) is meant to help students review the material that will be necessary for their success in Trigonometry. Material is pulled from Algebra and Geometry and includes: -Simplifying complex fractions -Geometry of triangles -Using basic trigonometry to solve right triangles -Transformations of the plane -Rationalizing denominators -Finding inverses of functions (analytically) -Solving quadratic equations -Triangle inequalit

This is the second of the activities designed to help you celebrate Phi Day on November 23rd, so named for the date's relationship to the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, ... This second activity builds on the first [Phi Day (1)--Golden Rectangles], but this activity works well as a stand-alone, and does NOT require that activity to be completed first. In this activity the students first get a historical lesson on who Fibonacci was, and then read the problem that he posed that has led to the na

This document contains the black and white version of our Factoring Flowchart, teacher notes and a model example on factoring, an 8 problem student worksheet, and an answer key with each problem worked out step-by-step.

This six page document contains: one page of instructor notes, a single page main activity, two pages of follow up activities, and a two page answer key. In the primary activity the students explore the properties of commutativity, associativity, and closure, as well as identities and inverses. The exploration centers on a 5-element set where a novel operator is defined by a 5x5 matrix. Activity two focuses on traditional definitions of inverses and identities, while the third activity allows

The "Minute 'Minders" series is designed to be a set of worksheets that can be used to review prerequisite concepts in a given class. They are meant to be used as quick warm-ups (each a single page) to refresh students' memories about concepts they are already familiar with, but in our teaching experience they may have forgotten. This Algebra Minute 'Minder has seven worksheets on the following topics: -Operations with integers -Operations with rational numbers (1) -Operations with rational n

This activity has a page of 15 tiles of color-coded quadratic, linear, and constant terms. Students are to match terms together to create 5 non-prime polynomials that they will then factor. A worksheet is included for students to record and submit their work.

This brief introduction to factoring provides a graphical organizer that helps students 1) define factoring, 2) give examples of expressions that are factored, 3) gives examples of expressions that are *not* factored, and then provides two examples of *why* we factor and where it will be used.