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MYP3 Math Test (Grade 8, but could be used for Grade 7 or 9 depending on your curriculum) Tests are leveled to have questions that roughly demonstrate achievement level at 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8 bands of Criterion A (MYP). Two tests and solutions are provided. Tests are marked holistically so there isn't a "markscheme" but solutions provide a guide

Math Angles and Polygons Practice - 5 different practice sheets. - 1 targeting vocabulary only - 2 tasks targeting a variety of angle and polygon practice for an entire unit - 2 tasks targeting finding angles using a variety of parallel angle and shape theorems.

Two (2) Diagnostic Math Tests - one for start of year with fractions, number, and a variety of other basics to check. Markscheme/solutions provided - one specifically for prior to a percentages unit, checking knowledge and skills in fractions and decimals concepts. No solutions provided. Written for Grade 8, but could be used for Grade 9 and (with perhaps some small adjustments) for younger grades.

This is ONE OF a set of scaffolded tasks that enable students to investigate patterns in the Wheel of Theodorus. This provides purposeful practice of Pythagorean theorem. Task 3 - students are given tables to help them organize their work. The task does not ask students to prove or justify the patterns they find. Buy this by itself or in a bundle with other scaffolded tasks. The set of tasks includes solutions!

Six (6) different types of tasks that require students to: - describe steps of worked solutions to equation solving - describe errors in worked solutions to equation solving - write expressions from a description of operations - write equations from a description of operations and solve it.

MYP Style linear patterns task based on the famous painted cube problem. Students are asked to find the equation for number of small cubes with three, two, one, and no sides painted for a larger cube of any side length n. It is valuable as a formative task to help students get used to investigation task structure or possibly as a formative assessment. I would not recommend using it formally as a summative task. It is essentially four mini-investigations in one instead of one investigation whos

This is the solutions from a set of scaffolded tasks that enable students to investigate patterns in the Wheel of Theodorus. This provides purposeful practice of Pythagorean theorem. Buy these solutions or the whole set of tasks as a bundle.

A deep application task requiring students to justify the degree of accuracy of their results from surface area and volume calculations using error bounds of measurement. 4 different tasks practicing the same skill. Could be used as low as 4th or 5th grade and as high as 10th or even 11th grade depending on your purposes.

An inquiry task where students match equations on cards to graphs of quadratic functions. This forces students to attend to function forms and how their parameters impact the features of the graph. This task assumes prior knowledge of algebraic simplification of binomials and factorization of trinomials. Zip file contains Word and PDFs of 3 files - 6 graphs, cards with function equations, and graphing practice for afterwards.

This is a set of scaffolded tasks that enable students to investigate patterns in the Wheel of Theodorus. This provides purposeful practice of Pythagorean theorem. Task 1 - students have no tables and must organize their work themselves. The task prompts students to prove or justify the patterns they find. Task 2 - students have no tables and must organize their work themselves. The task does not ask students to prove or justify the patterns they find. Task 3 - students are given tables to help

Inquiry lesson for students to discover logarithm laws. Extension to the proof of the log laws

A set of 14 quizzes to support a unit on grade 6-7 Algebra and linear patterns.

A guided inquiry task to help students understand the significance of each stage of the function modeling process. One question with structured prompts for the types of things to write about is provided, followed by three practice questions each with data that is approximately quadratic. This may require two lessons, depending on the length of your lesson period. Or it could be done in one guided lesson with the practice questions being assigned for homework.

A guided task to help students develop the concept of factoring. This task assumes/reviews prior knowledge of using distributive property (FOIL) to multiply a binomial by a binomial to make a trinomial. It helps students to see factoring as the reverse process of simplification using the area model of multiplication. This is a set of two tasks for trinomials where a=1 and for trinomials where a is not equal to 1. It is possible that you might do this in two separate lessons to help students dig

A structured inquiry task to draw students' attention to the connection between quadratic function equation forms and their graphs. This is a much more structured inquiry that draws more explicit attention to the parameters by prompting students to factorize or simplify equations to convert one form to another. This draws the students' attention to the connections between the geometry and the algebra.

This is ONE OF a set of scaffolded tasks that enable students to investigate patterns in the Wheel of Theodorus. This provides purposeful practice of Pythagorean theorem. Task 2 - students have no tables and must organize their work themselves. The task does not ask students to prove or justify the patterns they find. Buy this by itself or in a bundle with other scaffolded tasks

This is a set of scaffolded tasks that enable students to investigate patterns in the Wheel of Theodorus. This provides purposeful practice of Pythagorean theorem. Task 1 - students have no tables and must organize their work themselves. The task prompts students to prove or justify the patterns they find. Buy this by itself or in a bundle with other scaffolded tasks

Mathematics Investigation to help students determine the method for finding the result of two optimization problems: 1) the maximum area of a rectangle, given a perimeter 2) the minimum perimeter of a rectangle, given an area

A guided inquiry task to help students see the features of quadratic graphs that are linked to the different equation forms of a quadratic function (vertex form, factored form, standard form). I have available another task that does this, but that task provides context questions in each of the available forms. This task provides only equations to graph with the help of tables of values and the GDC. Since this task is context free, it can help strip away layers of complexity so students may focus

A mathematics investigation of the graphical properties of functions and their inverses. This helps students to discover the reflective property of graphs of inverses and can start students on the process of noticing the relationships between equations of functions and their inverses.