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This document is meant to help students entering an Algebra I course make sure they have the skills to help them be successful. The document has 40 problems chosen from three areas: Algebraic Literacy, Computation, and Algebra. The document can be used in several ways: as a review at the beginning of the school year, as a summative assessment at the end of the school year, as a summer assignment, or as a placement test.

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 bundle arrives just in time 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 bundle contains 3 sets of activities: The Golden Rectangle, The Fibonacci Sequence, and Spirals. But within those topics the students study Golden Ratio, art and architecture, Pascal's Triangle, are introduced to factorial notation, are introduced to the idea of limits, practice their geometry skills, and learn history about the c

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.

This 3 page activity has the students investigate the relationship between the size of a basketball and the diameter of the rim of the basketball hoop. In addition, students will investigate air pressure inside a basketball and how that translates into force. Students will need formulas for area and circumference of a circle, as well as volume, and surface area of a sphere.

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 is the third 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 third activity builds on the first two [Phi Day (1)--Golden Rectangles and Phi Day (2)--The Fibonacci Sequence], but this activity works well as a stand-alone, and does NOT require that activity to be completed first. Like the previous activities, this begins with some basic facts about the number phi. Students then e

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).

This fun project allows the students' creative side to shine through as they have to research a mathematician (from a provided list) to create a fictional obituary for their mathematician of choice. The strength of this project is that, due to it's nature, it resists the students borrowing from existing work. The nature of it forces the students to synthesize multiple sources in an original, creative format, while learning math history. In addition, this project works for many grade and conte

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

This Factoring Bundle contains the following files: -Bundle overview (a single page detailed description of the products) -Introduction to Factoring Organizer -Both versions of the Factoring Flowchart (black & white and color), with examples -Factoring Practice with Checklists -Factoring Matching Activity

This Smart Notebook lesson has a total 25 slides, with 22 pages factoring content. Techniques of factoring include: factoring a GCF, factoring by grouping, guess and check, splitting up the middle term, slide and divide, perfect square trinomials, the difference of squares, and the sum and difference of cubes. Each of the techniques is immediately followed by between 3 and 5 examples on that specific technique. (Note: none of the examples use multiple techniques of factoring. Those practice

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 resource has two components. First, students are randomly given either a compound interval notation statement (either a union or an intersection, with either inclusive or non-inclusive endpoints) or the resulting graph of the statement. Students need to find their correct match, creating a partnership for the next activity. In the second part, students have four compound inequalities to solve, graph, and then write the resulting solution set in both set builder and interval notation.

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 is a perfect activity to do on or around November 23rd, known as Phi Day for its relation to the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, ... Students are given the instructions to construct Golden Rectangles. During the activity, they will construct and measure two of their own Golden Rectangles to calculate a rough estimate for phi. Background information about phi is provided. Students then look at several examples of Golden Rectangles from art and architecture and then use the process of cre

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