Mathy Magic

Do your students have difficulty breaking down quadratic application problems? This handout breaks down the questions and helps students connect their knowledge of quadratic graphs to solving projectile application problems. By first identifying what each part of the graph represents in a real world context, students can then begin to decode the problems with no scaffolding from the teacher.

Teach students to decompose functions through the use of this topic in the zombie apocalypse. This also includes a quick intro to composition of functions with word problems...and the connection to the zombie apocalypse! Exciting PowerPoint presentation!

Students will travel around the room to find the solutions to factoring various trinomials. Good way to review before a quiz or just to reinforce factoring practice. More fun for students that sitting in their seats just doing a worksheet with factoring.

Test from a pre-calculus introductory unit on limits. Test includes solving limits that approach infinity as well as real numbers. Also includes a section on interpreting a graph with limits and statements about limits. Could be used as a review for a test as well.

Seven stations that will help students review for a test on quadratics. Stations include graphing, projectile applications, analyzing questions, factoring, discriminant, solving quadratics, and choosing the most efficient method.

This introduction allows students to discover the definition of many words you will use in the polynomials unit without telling them outright.