Volzy Math

Students will complete this activity where they match a question to an answer on a new card. Example. Card A's question may lead them to Card H. They answer the question on Card H and then it's answer is on Card D, etc. Eventually they will make a complete train of cards. This is good as a formative assessment activity for any size grouping, however, I like using it with pairs. My students really enjoyed this activity as an alternative to a traditional worksheet. You could also extend this by

This is a "dominos" like activity where students will choose a card to start on, set up and solve the proportion problem, find the answer on another card and then solve the problem on the same card that had their answer on it. They continue this process until they have lined up all their cards like dominoes. This activity could also easily be completed using stations or a scavenger hunt type task depending on the needs of your classroom. I usually have pairs complete this activity. Depending

This resource walks students through graphing quadratic inequalities of all types - including equal to and not equal to inequalities. All functions are given in vertex form. Students must graph given inequalities and write equations of given graphs of quadratic inequalities.

This is a scavenger hunt on Factoring and Graphing Polynomial Functions. The answers are included on the last pages. To set this up, I cut manila folders in half and attach the answers to the outside. Make sure when you set it up you do not put the answer to the question inside on the outside of its own pouch. You want to make sure that the answer leads to another question! This allows students to check their own answers as they are working - if they don't find the answer they have, then they

Radical Simplification is quite possibly the worst standard ever, right? In order to keep kids more engaged, I have created the tasks which are scaffolded from basic prime factorization (Task 1), to Simplification of Square Roots without variables (Task 2), to Simplification of Square Roots with variables (Task 3), to Simplification of Cube Roots with variables (Task 4). I copy these as half sheets. In between each task, we completed notes in our Interactive Notebooks and then students complet

This is a resource incorporating multiple representations of exponential functions including graphs, tables, equations, and scenarios. Students must use their knowledge of exponential functions (this would be after students have some formal knowledge of the equation and how it works) to answer each question. It is set up as a half booklet. You can use this to assess learning throughout a unit, practice, or even a review task. Amount of time required would vary depending on students' ability and

This is set up to be an interactive notebook entry, but could also be used as an assessment or as guided notes without a notebook as well. I found good response from this as a tool in my own classroom when learning to write quadratic equations after a day of introducing transformations.

This task requires students to work in pairs (so homogeneous pairing is very important here because they work together to move forward) to complete polynomial operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, composition. Within their pairs, one student is A and the other student is B. Student A completes their problem and B completes their problem. Together, they find the SUM of their answers. They document all three answers on their partner sheet (last page of document) and bring this to

This worksheet allows students to investigate the vertex form of a parabola. It assumes some knowledge of transformations is present, but also allows for students to discover and connect it to a few real world scenarios in the beginning as well.

This lesson plan and resources allow you and your students to develop (or review) the idea of correlation - and the strength of the correlation/correlation coefficient. This is intended to build from a basic understanding of general linear correlation into how we classify the strength of the correlation. If you have ANY questions about the materials or my lesson suggestions/outline, please do not hesitate to contact me!

Students alternate turns claiming squares on this grid game by correctly solving problems. The first to connect "four" (or whatever you choose to make the rules) wins! While this particular grid game is set up for solving equations, proportions, and percentages, it is set up in a word document, the grid can be customized to topic, differentiation needs, etc. This is a fun and engaging way to review and assess while building communication, collaboration, and strategic thinking skills!

This includes several different scenarios of modeling with parabolas. Students have to use their knowledge to find key information to solve the problems provided. This could easily be re-assembled into a scavenger hunt, used as assessment questions, or gallery walk, etc.

This is a scavenger hunt on Factoring and Graphing Polynomial Functions. The answers are included on the last pages. To set this up, I cut manila folders in half and attach the answers to the outside. Make sure when you set it up you do not put the answer to the question inside on the outside of its own pouch. You want to make sure that the answer leads to another question! This allows students to check their own answers as they are working - if they don't find the answer they have, then they

This worksheet was used as a mixed practice task for quadratic review in a senior applied math course and as a formative practice task while teaching the various forms of quadratic functions - Vertex Form, Factored Form, and Standard Form.

This activity is for use with instruction on the real number system. It allows students to interpret statements and determine if they are always, sometimes, or never true based on the real number system. I had students glue it into their interactive notebooks following notes on the real number system and definitions of each set of numbers, but it could be used as a team task, pairs check, or even individual formative assessment.

This activity was used to challenge my students WITHOUT a calculator to determine use information provided to write equations of a quadratic in vertex form, factored form, and standard form or analyze the thinking of someone else. It is intended to reinforce the information provided by the different forms of the equation of a quadratic function and how to transfer between them. Again, this was a non-calculator activity for my students.

This allows students to work on finding key information of vertices and x-intercepts and write equations in vertex and factored form from starting in standard. You could easily modify this document to give them different pieces of information (like just the intercepts and orientation) and then find the other pieces of information or use it as is to reinforce going from standard form to the other forms.

Students explore product, quotient, and other rules for exponent simplification. Students look for patterns and try to generalize them.

Students explore factors, prime numbers, and prime factorization.

This is a set of guided notes that were used in a unit on quadratic functions for my student's interactive notebooks, but could be used without an INB as well. It specifically covers factored form of a quadratic function. This is set up as two per page in order to fit in an INB.