Keep track of how your grades are weighted even if you are on a points system! Grade weights can be preset for a grading period. However, on a point system, the weights change with each new grade entry. Use this spreadsheet to help you keep track of the weights you desire for the end of the grading period. Simply enter the names of your grade categories, the name of the assignments, the points assigned to each category, and the spreadsheet will do the rest! Do you have multiple classes? Just rig
Perpendicular and Parallel Slope Exploration gives students a chance to discover the relationship of slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines. They will use Desmos slider bar tools to do so. (Click here to see an example of how slider bars work.) Students will record their discovered parallel and perpendicular equations in tables. The tables are followed by leading questions about slope relationships and check for understanding problems. To conclude the activity, teachers can provide students
Given 4 pairs of circles centered at the origin, students will explore that all circles are similar. To do this students will find the radius of each circle, then calculate the ratio of the areas and circumferences. On the 5th slide, students are asked to draw their own circles not centered at the origin to see if their discoveries still hold true. At the end, students will be asked to compile all their data in order to draw conclusions to prove all circles are similar. What is included:Editabl
Do your students need to understand how and why all circles are similar? Given 4 pairs of circles centered at the origin, students will explore that all circles are similar. To do this students will find the radius of each circle, then calculate the ratio of the areas and circumferences. On the 5th slide, students are asked to draw their own circles not centered at the origin to see if their discoveries still hold true. At the end, students will be asked to compile all their data in order to dra
Do you need a non-traditional way for your students to practice End Behavior? Students practice identifying End Behavior without the mess of traditional Cut & Paste! There is a lot of flexibility as the activity may be used as a whole class activity via a projector, group work in a classroom with not quite 1:1, or as an individual activity in a 1:1 setting. Be sure to delete the answer key slides and only include the desired version, before sharing the document with them. View the Video Previe
Do you ever get frustrated by the mess of cut and paste activities? Download today for no more mess! Students practice labeling a Unit Circle in a scaffolded approach. The activity may be used as a whole class activity via a projector, station work, as an individual activity in a 1:1 setting, or with Google Classroom. Included in this download: •Scaffolded activities labeling: •angle measures •radians •coordinates and angles of 30-60-90 triangles •coordinates and angles of 45-45-90 triangles
Use this activity to help young readers use technology to practice CVC words! Students use a touch screen, desktop, or laptop to move the letters into the correct position. Depending on the technology, students can use the mouse, arrow keys, and/or touch screen to click and drag the letters to spell the words. If the classroom has an interactive white board, this activity can also be done as a whole class activity. It can also work for 1:1 classrooms and Chromebooks!
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Factor Polynomials Cut and Paste {Digital Version} gives students the opportunity to categorize 31 polynomials based on binomials vs trinomials. Then students further categorize into:
♦quadratic formula
♦trinomials with a = 1
♦trinomials with a not equal to 1
♦perfect square trinomials
♦difference of squares
♦sum of 2 cubes
♦difference of cubes.
As a further extension, students can factor these polynomials and find the zeros. If students go all the way through finding the zeros, it may take up
Do your students have to keep a data folder this year and you don't know where to start? Have students take ownership of their learning using this EDITABLE and ELECTRONIC data folder. Slides are made with embedded and editable graphs. Students simply click on the graph, enter their data into a provided Excel spreadsheet, and reflect. The graphs include an opportunity for students to set a goal so they can watch their progress towards that goal. They can then use their folder to present at s
Click and Reveals are a great way to introduce or review a topic or a unit. The PowerPoint is projected in slide show mode on a screen. Students compete in teams to answer the questions using their resources (book, internet, notes, each other). When they have an answer, they send one member up to the teacher to check accuracy. If the student is correct, they may click the question to begin to reveal a picture. WARNING: Students can get very competitive with this activity! Once all the quest
You can ask Siri on an iPhone “What planes are flying over me?” and she will tell you exactly that. But exactly how far out of a radius does Siri report planes? This activity will help you and your students use trigonometry and angles of elevation and depression find out! Applications include the use of tangent AND cosine!
There are several versions of this activity all in one download! The first version is a printable activity where the data is provided and a map is provided. The second a
In this investigation, students will use raw spaghetti and mini marshmallows to discover how the surface area and volume of a prism relate to the surface area and volume of the respective oblique prism. Students will be asked to create a rectangular prism using marshmallows to connect the vertices. Using a ruler, they will measure the dimensions of the prism, calculate and record the surface area and volume. Then they will make their prism into an OBLIQUE prism by giving it a slight push to t
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This activity helps students and parents understand what resources are available when they log into the Holt Algebra 1, Geometry, & Algebra 2 Textbook Online book 2008 version. This activity should be given after the teacher assigns username and passwords to students. A parent signature line is also included to encourage a conversation between parent and student as to the resources available. After completing this activity, students have a much greater understanding of what tools
Students create a flip book using Power Point to discover and/or apply properties of geometric transformations. The student handout provides detailed instructions on how to create the flip book which includes using the “duplicate slide” feature in Power Point. Students are required* to create a minimum of 10 slides with 4 different movements. Students are given the opportunity to choose what type of movements they use within given parameters. This choice provides the opportunity for great di
This card game is based on the traditional game "I have... Who has..." Topics included in this 20 card set are add, subtract, multiply, divide and order integers as well as 1-step equations. Teacher notes and extension activities are provided.
How to play:
Hand out a card to each student. Some students may need to have 2 depending upon how many in a set. It is important to use all the cards in a set.
Choose a student to go first, and have her read her problem on the “who has” part of the car
Help your students get organized for their semester exams with this is a “3 for 1” deal! In this document you get 3 different types of study guide templates for students to use. These have been very effective in my own high school classroom, but they can be applied to any classroom that has a cumulative test or exam. In my own classroom I present all 3 templates to students, then I allow them to choose which one(s) they would like to use. Students enjoy the opportunity to personalize and they
Each day is represented by its own text box, so it is really easy to switch days around. Making days movable is extremely helpful in response to needed adjustments due to snow days, assemblies, unexpected absence, students needing an extra day, etc. By typing lesson plans into this template, you are able to copy/paste and adjust from last year. You can also keep easier track of helpful links by putting the hyperlink directly into the “materials” section.
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We have heard the question so many times in our teaching career: “Why do I have to learn this stuff? I’m never going to use it in my life.” This thought provoking PowerPoint gives students the opportunity to think about some possible situations where they may use math in their lives and answer this ever common question.
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Help students figure out what to do next when solving area problems. This graphic organizer gives students a step by step process for solving area and it gives them space within the organizer to solve these problems. This document is set up as a template so teachers can have students fill in with whatever problems relate to the specific classroom. Students should write each step of their process next in the space provided next to the step description.
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This inquiry activity is a fun way to discover the various properties of rotations and reflections. Students and or the teacher will take reflection pictures of students using an iOS device and the Photo Booth App. (This app usually comes standard on iOS devices.) Students will then import these photos into the provided PowerPoint and onto slides with a coordinate plane. It is through these slides, that students will begin to discover the effect transformations have on a set of coordinates. I
I have been teaching HS math since 2001. I have a Bachelor's degree in Secondary Math Ed and a Master's Degree in Technology in the Classroom.
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