math through discovery

Saturday, April 29, 2017

If you are looking for a hands-on activity that will help students remember all the information on a unit circle this could be the one you are looking for.  Students find the radian measure, angle measure, and coordinates for 16 points around a unit circle by using right triangles.

Building-a-Unit-Circle


Sunday, April 23, 2017

Here are four similar products available in my store.  Students understand slope better when they can visualize the points on the line.  These four products have identical questions but some of the questions have the points graphed, while others require the students to product the graph.  With two of the products students can confirm their solutions using the QR Codes.   Geometry-Slope-Task-Cards-without-Graphed-Points-and-with-QR-Codes
Geometry-Slope-Task-Cards-with-Graphed-Points-and-QR-Codes

Geometry-Slope-Task-Cards-With-Graphed-Points
Geometry-Slope-Task-Cards-without-Graphed-Points
Check them out.


Tuesday, April 18, 2017


A recent buyer said " My 11th graders were able to dive into this activity and some were inspired to create their own probability games based off this activity. Awesome!"  

You might want to check out this activity.  


Wednesday, April 12, 2017

 Algebra-1-Solving-Quadratic-Equations-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes

Algebra-1-Solving-Quadratic-Equations-Task-Cards

Here is a great activity for after you have taught your students all the ways to solve a quadratic equation.  The set of 28 task cards (7 sets of four cards) focus on the various techniques for solving a quadratic equation:
1.   Solve Quadratic Equations using Square Roots
2.   Solve Quadratic Equations using Square Roots in Two     Steps
3.   Solve Quadratic Equations by factoring (a=1)
4.   Solve Quadratic Equations by Factoring (a≠1)
5.   Solve Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square
6.   Solve Quadratic Equations with the Quadratic Formula
7.   Solve the quadratic equation using any method.
 A full set of solutions are included.


Monday, April 10, 2017

Here are six sets of task cards that you can review major ideas you have covered in Algebra I.  They all refer to 7 of the standards in the Common Core State Standards in Algebra I.

Interpreting Functions

Algebra-1-Interpreting-Functions-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes

Creating Equations

Algebra-1-Creating-Equations-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes

Seeing Structure in Equations

Algebra-1-Creating-Equations-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes


Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities

Algebra-1-Reasoning-with-Equations-and-Inequalities-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes

Arithmetic with Polynomials and Rational Expressions

Algebra-1Arithmetic-of-Polynomials-Rational-Expressions-Task-Cards-w-QR-Codes


Linear, Quadratic and Exponential Models

Algebra-1-Linear-and-Exponential-Model-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes

Building Functions

Algebra-1-Building-Functions-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Here are two great products for reviewing polynomails in Algebra I and Algebra II.
Each game has 25 questions of which one is a Bonus question.  Each game ends with a Final Question.

Algebra-I-Smartboard-Q-and-A-Game-Polynomials-and-Factoring


Algebra-II-Smartboard-Q-and-A-Game-Quadratics-and-Polynomials