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Get Your Kicks on Route 66
(3 pages)
Rapid Roy drives the highway to demonstrate that absolute value is the distance from zero.
Topics: Absolute value equations and inequalities
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Truffles
(8 pages)
Boxes of chocolate show students why we combine only LIKE terms.
Topics: Representation of quantity, simplifying expressions, solving linear and quadratic equations
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Distance Dating
(4 pages)
Dating people a given distance from your home reveals the relationship between the Pythagorean Theorem and the equations of a circle.
Topics: Equation of a circle, Pythagorean Theorem, distance formula
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Get It Out Of Your System
(1 pages)
Review systems of equations with this game for the whole class.
Topics: Review game, systems of equation
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The House Painter, Part 1
(4 pages)
Write and simplify a polynomial that will yield the quantity of stucco required to cover the side of a house.
Topics: Adding polynomials
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The House Painter, Part 2
(4 pages)
Teach what it means to "distribute the negative" by calculating the quantity of paint required to cover an interior wall (minus the window).
Topics: Subtracting polynomials
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The House Painter, Part 3
(5 pages)
Allow students to SEE the method for multiplying two binomials by calculating various areas of the interior wall of a house.
Topics: Multiplying polynomials
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Mission to Mars
(7 pages)
Apply quadratics equations to the trajectory of projectiles by launching toy rockets.
Topics: Solving quadratic equations
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Number Tricks: Factoring
( pages)
Use "pick a number" games to demonstrate that factored expressions yield the same value as their original form.
Topics: Simplifying algebraic expressions, factoring
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Number Tricks: Rational Expressions
( pages)
Use "pick a number" games to emphasize that simplied rational expressions yield the same value as their original, unsimplified form.
Topics: Simplifying algebraic expressions, factoring, rational expressions
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Road Rage: Monster Car Systems
(5 pages)
The battery operated cars return with a vengence to demonstarte systems in a way the students will never forget.
Topics: Solving systems in slope-intercept form; graphing systems; writing equations
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Staircases and Ramps
(4 pages)
Find the ratio of vertical change to horizontal change in every day structures.
Topics: Slope
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Texas Hold 'Em
(1 pages)
Use a math teacher's version of this wildly popular version of poker to review concepts at the end of a unit or before a test.
Topics: Review Game
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Tumbling Cars
(2 pages)
How steep of an embankment will make a toy car tumble?
Topics: Slope
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Fence Posts
(3 pages)
Find corresponding and alternate interior angles in the structures on your campus.
Topics: Parallel lines cut by a transversal, corresponding angles, alternate interior and exterior angles, consecutive interior angles, angle measure
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Mother's Attic
(4 pages)
Use geometric means to in order to calculate heights and lengths while you redecorate your attic.
Topics: Geometric Mean, Right Triangle Altitude Theorem, Pythagorean Theorem
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And I Lived to Tell About It
(2 pages)
A high school math teacher's day in the elementary classroom teaching both first and fourth grades.
Topics: Teaching methodology, fractions, elementary education
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Quantity: The Elusive Cornerstone
(2 pages)
Why don't students understand the symbolic representation of quantity?
Topics: Symbols, variables, algebra
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