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This activity is sort of like a lab for younger students in math class. In this activity students collaborate to measure large, circular and square shaped objects around them and determine the approximate values of pi and the square root of 2. It gives them meaningful practice in making measurements, reporting and recording numbers, and using calculators.

This is an activity for high school math students that can consolidate their understanding of the fundamental counting principle and permutations and link it to the concept of probability and statistics. Students roll a set of three dice repeatedly and generate a frequency graph. Then they examine the theoretical probabilities for dice outcomes to compare it to their experimental data.

This is a midterm review activity for my student's first semester of calculus. It's focused on applications of derivatives and includes questions about curve sketching, the mean value theorem, linear approximations, related rates, optimization and L'Hopital's rule. It's geared as a review of differential calculus before students start learning about antiderivatives. When I teach, this is done as a carousel activity where students move to different stations which are timed and work on the questio

This is a questionnaire that can be attached as the last page of a unit test, midterm exam or final exam. The purpose is to cue students to reflect on what they've done in class, for homework and during the exam, and to provide the teacher with valuable feedback on how the students are doing in the class.

This is a handout which can be given to student as a step by step "manual" for factoring quadratics with the decomposition method. I usually give it to them with the step by step example on one side of the page and the factoring flow chart on the back of the page. My students have really appreciated having this in front of the them when they are first learning how to factor quadratic polynomials.

This is a speaking project that can be done in high school math classes. It gives students a chance to work on their communication skills and provides a human element to the math ideas discussed in class.

This is guaranteed to help your students understand all aspects of arithmetic series. There is a student handout that has two scaffolded examples for working through arithmetic series problems. The handout cues the students to read the problem, draw a visual representation of it, write down numbers related to their picture, identify t1, n and d in the problem, put the values into the arithmetic series formula, and write a concluding sentence. All that is done on one sheet of paper. Then there is

This is a fun way to introduce or review fractions. It describes the steps for the fundamental operations of fractions including common denominators, multiplicationa dn division, reducing fractions, converting fractions into decimals and vice versa, and changing between improper and mixed fraction form. Dress up like a wizard to enhance the experience.