Mathy Magic

Students will travel through five stations to reinforce the difference between experimental and theoretical probabilities. The five stations are as follows: 1. Deck of Cards 2. Flipping Two Coins 3. Drawing Candies from a Bag 4. Spinner 5. Rolling a Pair of Dice At Station 1, students determine the theoretical probability of drawing various cards, card types, and card combinations from the deck. At Station 2, students determine the theoretical probability of all possible outcomes that can come

Students will use online graphing software, Desmos Graphing Calculator, to discover what the discriminant tells us about a given quadratic equation. This activity allows students to conclude that the discriminant will provide information about how many x-intercepts (solutions) the quadratic equation has by working through and graphing various quadratic functions. This is a great way for students to come up with why the discriminant is so useful without simply telling them the rule. Common core

A more challenging scavenger hunt for order of operations. Students will need to use their knowledge of order of operations to successfully travel throughout the classroom and simplify expressions. 14 question cards in the file. There is also an answer sheet for students and directions. Questions include exponents, multiple parentheses, one square root, and expressions in the numerator and denominator of fractions.

Join Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner as they use right triangle trigonometry to battle Captain Norrington's ships and rescue Elizabeth! Students will be required to work through various right triangle trig problems. All of the problems are themed around a ship, submarine, and Pirates of the Caribbean story lines. Fun way for students to review this concept. ANSWER KEY INCLUDED!

To survive a zombie apocalypse students must collect supplies from their supply list. Each supply requires students to solve a system of equations or complete a systems application problem. When students complete supply stations they return to the teacher to receive a sign off for correct answers. When students have collected all the supplies (completed all the systems review stations), you may present them with a congratulations certificate (not included)! NOW INCLUDES ANSWER KEY!

Help students make the connection between functions and relations by relating a function to a toaster. Functions act like machines and in our lives, we expect our machines to work! Toast, whether it's wheat or rye, should still come out toast. A bagel, wheat, blueberry, or otherwise, will still come out a bagel. If these items came out as a toaster pastry the machine wouldn't function. This can be used to help introduce students to evaluating functions and the concept of functions in general.