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A coursepack for the Data Management course (Ontario MDM, but has a lot of relevant information for other curricula). There are case studies, activities, teacher directed fill in the blanks, questions, and instructions on how to use Fathom and Excel.

Students struggle over creating linear expressions from the text of a word problem. To help them I have created two resources here. The first is a walkthrough aiding them in the construction of a linear equation using: 1. slope and intercept 2. slope and point 3. two points The answers to this guided activity is provided. The second part of this workbook is a cut and paste activity where students read the word problem and search for the correct expression to go with the statement. An answer key

Analytical Geometry: Quadrilaterals and Triangles using Length and Slope Students pick a card that has a series of co-ordinates on one side and the shape these co-ordinates creates on the other. They they use the blank worksheets to graph the points. The worksheets act as graphic organizers so that students can structure the process in determining what shape it is using the length of the segments between the points and the slopes. Full solutions are provided for all the shape types. Shapes are

Students often struggle over creating expressions to solve from word problems. I have created this resource to help guide them and see the patterns in the various types of quadratic word problems that they can encounter. In this activity, students will paste the correct equations to the quadratic word problems. An answer key is provided which makes this activity very student directed. This allows teachers to focus individually on the students. Because the students get to choose their answer fro

Graphic Organizers for analytical geometry. There are so many little steps to finding: 1. Altitudes 2. Right bisectors 3. Medians 4. Distance to a line 5. Properties of a polygon These graphic organizers will help the student layout the steps in a clear manner for all 5 of these types of geometrical properties and problems.