MrsGrantMath

This Microsoft Word document contains an overview page and all handouts/worksheets my March Madness Statistics Unit. It uses some data from the 2013 men's basketball season, but can be altered for future seasons. Each lesson is specifically tied to each round of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament. Students will be able to calculate mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and quartiles. They will also be able to create stem and leaf plots, box and whiskers plots, frequency tables, histograms

This multiple choice puzzle will offer practice on simplifying and evaluating exponential expressions involving rational exponents and radical expressions. When students simplify the expression and choose the correct response, they will be completing a fact about the Winter Olympic games. Included is a back side for students to show their work. Includes an answer key. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This activity can be used as a classroom activity to reinforce the concept of translations of the absolute value parent function. I use the activity after we have gone through a few examples together. The activity works best in groups of 2, but you could have them work in groups of 3 or 4 if necessary. Pages one and two should be copied and distributed to each student. Page 3 contains functions that may or may not match the graphs on the handouts. I print page 3 on cardstock, cut, and place

This multiple choice puzzle will offer practice on factoring trinomials where all 3 terms are positive, and the leading coefficient is 1. When students factor the trinomial and choose the correct response, they will be completing a fact about the NCAA Final Four. Included is a back side for students to show their work. Includes an answer key. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

This is the final lesson in my NCAA March Madness Statistics Unit. I use as an assessment for the unit. Students will be expected to find mean and standard deviation from a data set, create a 5-number summary and box and whiskers plot, and create a frequency table and histogram. The page numbers referenced in the overview page come from McDougal Littell's 2001 Algebra I textbook.

In this activity, students will choose the best method for writing the equation of a line, based on the way in which the line is described. Page 2 of this document is the handout for student use. Page 3 is the teacher’s key. Page 4 contains the descriptions for each line. I print these on card stock, cut, and place in baggies for my students. I use this activity towards the end of my Linear Functions unit. Students have already learned to write the equations of lines earlier in the unit.

This activity can be used as a classroom activity to reinforce the concept of the distributive property. I use the activity after we have gone through a few examples together. The activity works best in groups of 2, but you could have them work in groups of 3 or 4 if necessary. The game works just like Memory, only students will be matching a variable expression (with parentheses) to its equivalent simplified expression (without parentheses). The Word document includes a teacher instruction

This multiple choice puzzle will offer practice on simplifying exponential expressions using the properties of exponents for products. When students simplify the expression and choose the correct response, they will be completing a fact about the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Included is a back side for students to show their work. Properties included: Product of Powers, Power of a Power, and Power of a Product. Includes an answer key. This work is licensed under a Creative Common

This worksheet asks students to choose the best method to graph a linear equation, based on the form in which it is presented - slope-intercept form, point-slope form, or standard form. I use this worksheet with my Algebra I students towards the end of the Linear Functions unit. They have already learned how to graph lines from all three forms earlier in the unit.

This is a group problem solving activity to use with Solving Systems of Linear Equations. Students should already know how to solve a system by substitution, elimination, and graphing. Upon completion of this activity, students will have created and solved 3 systems of equations to model real world scenarios. In this activity, students should be divided into groups of 3 or 4. I print enough copies of the handout so that each student has their own. I also print enough copies of the applica

This Microsoft Word document includes an overview and one lesson of my complete NCAA March Madness Statistics Unit. Included is the Third Round lesson, in which students will calculate the median, first quartile, and third quartiles, and create a box and whiskers plot from the data. The page numbers referenced in the overview come from McDougal Littell's 2001 Algebra I.