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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.