The Math Plebian

Here is a short, but somewhat challenging worksheet for students calculating the surface area and volume of a toilet paper roll, a lego brick, pencils, a snow cone, and a hardware nut. The polyhedron bases are either round, hexagonal, or rectangular so none of the more difficult work. Nonetheless, challenging for most geometry students. A solution key is included.

This is an introduction to reducing square roots. This is includes all 36 numbers whose roots reduce from 1 to 100, plus a few additional roots making 40 problems in all. The worksheet shows several workout examples and has a list of square numbers and prime numbers at the top of the first page to aid students.

Here is a worksheet where students graph points and use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between them. Also included are pre-requisite skill worksheets on the Pythagorean Theorem and Reducing Roots and a follow-up worksheet on deriving the distance formula and a few distance formula problems. The simplifying roots worksheet and Distance and Pythagoras worksheets are also sold separately.

Students will use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points. They begin by graphing the points, connecting them, and then forming a right triangle. This is the core worksheet from a more complete Lesson Plan, which is also available for purchase. It is a great way to prepare students to learn the distance formula, or just to find distances without it by making sketches.

Here is a essay that sighting the works of several authors regarding the nature of mathematics. While it could provide a good philosophical debate the article is more motivational and designed to pique interest in mathematics. Relevant for the beginning of a math course, a non-fiction essay for an English class, or AVID activity. Comprehension questions are included which could be used as the basis for a more formal essay assignment.

This worksheet includes 45 triangles that include x as either a side length or as part of an expression for a side length. Through the course of the worksheet students review simplifying roots, the properties of square roots, solving quadratics by taking the root, and solving quadratics by factoring. Among the problems special triangle are well represented, preparing students for future discussions. Full solutions are included. The binomial problems produce quadratics that can be solved by fact

This is an interactive worksheet that can be completed by students using tablets or I-Pads. It is interactive in the sense that when students enter an answer it gives immediate feedback whether the answer is correct or incorrect. Originally designed for students to complete and submit electronically. It was a follow-up to an introduction to simple interest. It does not require students to know interest formulas but understand the concept of increasing by a percentage. This worksheet was original