Great practical math activity to include in your linear functions unit! This works for middle school and high school math in any curriculum that includes linear functions. Students will have the opportunity to create their own linear equation based on a job they're interested in. I compiled hourly wages based on national averages for a variety of jobs. Students would pick a job to get their slope, choose a bonus for their y-intercept, then create their own equation. From there, students would ha
This guide will help you and your students identify the key "look fors" and steps to factor and solve any quadratic! This guide includes the following strategies: -Factoring with the XBox method -Perfect Squares -Difference of Squares -Greatest Common Factor -Completing the Square -Zero Product Property -Using Inverse Operations/Taking Square Roots