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Students practice their skills of changing degrees into radians and radians into degrees in this game of Degrees & Radians WAR. It is played like the card game "War," where each student has a deck of cards with all the degrees and radians of the unit circle. Students shuffle their own deck and turn over the first card of their deck. They compare to see which value is larger, and whomever has the larger value wins those two cards, turns them over face-down on the table and the students go agai

This Jeopardy-esque game has all students working to solve problems related to solving exponential equations, solving logarithmic equations, inverses, and compositions of functions. I used this in my (HN) Math III class (class before HN Pre-Calculus). I included the section on inverses and composition of functions (and composition of inverses) so that my students would learn the next day why we "take the log of both sides," or why when we exponentiate we are just left with what was in the expo

Played like the game “Hedbanz,” where students have to guess the vertex form and/or standard form and/or graph of the quadratic function attached to their heads by asking other students “yes” or “no” questions. This game requires students to write equations in vertex form after finding the vertex and another point on their graph to get the “a” value. Students must know their translations. It also requires students to rewrite quadratics from vertex form to standard form by squaring binomials (a

Show students how to derive the formula x= -b/2a, and why it's the x-value of the vertex with this mix n' match game! Students rearrange the steps and descriptions in their groups to rewrite standard form to vertex form by completing the square. NOTE: ***Students must already know how to complete the square for quadratics when a is NOT 1*** It would also help to have already gone over translations of the quadratic parent function, in order to help see why x= -b/2a instead of positive. This l

Have your students derive the quadratic formula from standard form in this mix 'n match game. Students put the cards in order of the correct way to solve for x, and have to put the description next to each step. NOTE: *** Students must know how to complete the square before doing this activity**** Work in groups or individually have students glue their pieces in their notes. NOTE: if you do this individually, students SHOULD NOT cut out the pieces, as they are already in order.

Students practice their skills of changing degrees into radians and radians into degrees in this game of Degrees & Radians Matching Game. Students shuffle a deck of cards (they can work in pairs) and lay each card face-down on the table in front of them. Each student takes turns turning over two cards at a time to find matches between degrees and radians. The game ends when all cards have been matched up. The student with the most matches wins! Included in the purchase are the cut-outs for

Students will be perplexed and engaged as they figure out how big COULD they blow a bubble in one breath? Lots of student involvement. Low-floor, high-ceiling. Lots of fun! Goals: By the end of this lesson, students will have practiced using the formulas for the volume of a sphere and volume of a cylinder, and they will have practiced solving literal equations. This includes solving equations with fractions and cubes. They will also have a better understanding of the meaning of volume, by mean

Played like the smart phone game, "Heads Up," students shuffle the deck of vocabulary cards and hold the stack up to their forehead so that their partner can see the word. The partner then describes the vocabulary word and the person holding the card has to guess. For every one the student guesses correct, they earn a point, and the game continues for 1-2 minutes before they switch off. Play in teams, or teams play against other teams in this fun game to practice statistics vocabulary. This

Played like the smart phone game, "Heads Up," students shuffle the deck of vocabulary cards and hold the stack up to their forehead so that their partner can see the word. The partner then describes the vocabulary word and the person holding the card has to guess. For every one the student guesses correct, they earn a point, and the game continues for 1-2 minutes before they switch off. Play in teams, or teams play against other teams in this fun game to practice statistics vocabulary. This voc