MrsGrantMath

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.

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