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 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.

Students can work collaboratively or individually to solve the problems on the task cards (2 Per Card). First problem on task card is general system of equations and the second problem on task card is a real world scenario. Answer Key is included as last page of document.

Students will work on applying the coordinate rules for rotations. You must provide instruction on the coordinate rules - check out my store for a task to discover coordinate rules and the free notes sheet for them!

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 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

The first few pages with the "my letter" tables allows students to access their own knowledge of what the word rotation would mean. Give them roughly two minutes to fill in as many boxes as they can with rotations of their letter. Do not provide assistance to them. After the time is up, have them meet with anyone else - I usually do people with the same letter - and they can compare the rotations that were created and fill in more of their boxes, if needed. After words, the following pages allo

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 is a variety of practice where student practice identifying quadrilaterals based on given information in various formats (grid, no grid, markings, etc).

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.

Practice with reflections across diagonal lines (y=x and y=-x): performing reflections, identifying reflections that have occurred, and error analysis of others' reflections.

Practice Worksheet where students can apply reflections using only coordinate rules (no patty paper, etc). This requires you have taught or allowed students to discover the coordinate rules for reflections in a coordinate plane.

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.

This activity allows students to explore equivalent rotations individually, have conversations in partners and groups of 4 (if you desire), and develop equivalent rotations (and coordinate rules depending on grade implementation). Also search my store for the FREE equivalent rotation notes download that goes along with this activity/exploration!