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This completely online activity uses Google Sheets to have students work on practicing using the Remainder and Factor Theorems, along with synthetic division. Students have to collaborate with a partner to correctly answer the questions and combine their answers to find the correct values to enter into the spreadsheet. As students correctly answer their questions and enter the values into the corresponding boxes a mystery picture will begin to appear! This activity is a short practice, where e

This completely online activity uses Google Sheets to have students work on practicing using the Quadratic Formula to solve quadratic equations. As students correctly answer their questions and enter the values into the corresponding boxes a Thanksgiving themed mystery picture will begin to appear! This activity is a short practice where there are a total of 6 questions and would easily fit into a single class period. The activity should take roughly 25-30min depending on the level of student an

This maze was created to support students just learning the quadratic formula who need support going through all of the steps of the solving process. The questions in the maze have rational and irrational solutions only (no imaginary/complex solutions). During the maze, students will practice... Rearranging quadratics equations to be in standard form and equal to 0Identifying the coefficients and finding the discriminantSetting up the quadratic formula and simplifyingFinding both answers and rou

Use this seek and solve to help your students practice solving quadratic equations with a leading coefficient of one. Algebra skills needed: Set a quadratic equation equal to zeroFactor out a GCFFactor trinomialsFactor difference of squares with a leading coefficient of one This activity allows students to get out of their seats and move around - my students love to do these outside! Included materials: 8 problem sheets to hang up in your classroom, out in the hallway, or outsideWork space shee

Need a quick and easy way to practice finding vertex points around Halloween? Try this pixel art activity! Students answer 10 questions identifying vertex points from a graph of 6 different parabolas and practice evaluating functions written in vertex form using a calculator. This activity is self-checking and is great for sub plans or a quick practice activity!

Start off the new year with a Synthetic Division Review! The Google Slides activity requires no copies or teacher prep. There are 6 questions that help students to review synthetic division of polynomials and students use the remainder values to complete the color by number picture. Skill needed for students:1) Set up and solve synthetic division problems 2) Setting up and solving problems where the dividend has missing terms. Perfect as a quick review or as a way to get your students ready to

This bundle includes notes and classroom activities for students learning polynomial operations. These were designed for use in an Algebra 2 course for a mix of general education students and students with disabilities. These students had learned about combining like terms and distributing in previous courses. Included Resources:Guided notes on polynomial operations - addition, subtraction, distributing, and multiplying polynomials using 2 different methods.Chain Reaction Activity - great for g

Need practice for your students on solving direct and inverse variation? Look no further! This Google Form iSpy activity includes 10 variation problems for students and includes both explicit problems and word problems (see sample problem in the preview above). The Google Form is self-checking, so it's a great activity to work on live OR to use as an asynchronous or homework assignment. I personally used this as a live activity with my students while we were teaching virtually due to COVID-19.

These notes are great for introducing students to all of the different exponent rules! Each rule has several examples and the notes go from easier to more complicated examples. These notes are especially great for students who need more support and they were originally designed to be used in a College Prep level course with a mix of general education and students with accommodations. The notes start with exploring exponents with numbers before introducing the rules with variables. The notes co

This self-checking activity allows students to practice function composition using tables, graphs, and equations. The activity includes 8 problems to hang up on the walls of your classroom or out in the hallway or even outside. I use this activity in my classroom to get my students out of their desks and moving - they love when we do them outside! Students can start at any of the 8 problems and will use their answers to advance to the next problem in the activity. When students are done, they sh

This activity is a great way to have students work on distributing, combining like terms, and multiplying polynomials together. It is set up to be done in groups of 3, but can easily be done as an individual activity. Several grouping suggestions and classroom uses are included. Three levels of difficulty are included - great for differentiation and students can work their way through each level to extend their practice. How it works: The first question is fully listed. Student(s) solve the fi

These notes are great for reviewing the basic polynomial operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Each operation has several examples and the notes go from easier to more complicated examples. The notes also go over two ways to multiply polynomials - which I have found great for students who need more differentiation. These were used in an Algebra 2 course to review basic polynomial operations after review exponent rules. The notes cover… Adding polynomialsSubtracting polynomia

This activity requires students to multiply and divide with square roots. Both types of problems may require simplifying the radicals to find the final answers. Multiplication problems include multiplying monomials, a monomial times a binomial, and two binomials Division problems may require rationalizing to find the final answer. None of the problems require using the conjugate to rationalize. This is a great review activity for radical operations and is a great way to get your students up and

This review game contains 24 exponential equations that students must use logarithms to solve. There are no problems that require common logs or natural logs to solve. Students create their own MATHO cards using the provided template and answer list. The PowerPoint contains a macro that can be used to randomize the order of the questions.

A walk-around activity where students must match exponential equations to their graphs and then explain why they knew it was the correct graph for that equation