CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: High School Math – Claim 3
Communication is the key. A presentation provides 25 sample items for Claim 3, Communicating Reasoning, for the Smarter Balanced High School Math assessment. Items require pupils to answer the question and provide logical reasoning to...
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Rational Equations
In this rational equations worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 19 different types of problems. First, they solve each given equation by factoring. Then, students state the domain and solve. They also illustrate any discarded...
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Two Squares are Equal
This problem is sure to get your young mathematicians thinking. The idea sounds simple: one equation, solve it as many ways as you can. This is meant to get at a deeper understanding of solving quadratic equations, including some more...
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Chapter 7 Review: Radical Notation
In this radical notation worksheet, students write expressions using rational exponent notation and evaluate expressions with radical notation. They find the inverse of a function and give the domain. This three-page worksheet contains...
NASA
Lights on the International Space Station
Groups explore illumination with NASA's Lighting Environment Test Facility (LETF) as a context. Using the TI-Nspire app, groups determine the lux equation that models their simulation. They then use the lux equation to...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Polynomial Division
Multiply the ways your scholars can find the quotient with polynomial division. A lesson introduces polynomial division via long division, synthetic division, generic area model, and using the definition of division. Learners then...
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Graphing Review
in this graphing review worksheet, learners solve a variety of problems such as interpreting parabolas, identifying intercepts and asymptotes, and identifying functions. They solve piecewise functions and rational functions. This twenty...
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Translate Word Phrases and Sentences into Equations
Use this video to show your learners an example of how to translate word phrases into an equation to solve a real-world problem. The presenter begins with a review of how to use cross products to solve a proportion, including how to do...
Virginia Department of Education
Middle School Mathematics Vocabulary Word Wall Cards
Having a good working knowledge of math vocabulary is so important for learners as they progress through different levels of mathematical learning. Here is 125 pages worth of wonderfully constructed vocabulary and concept review cards....
Inside Mathematics
Graphs (2004)
Show your pupils that perimeter is linear and area is quadratic in nature with a short assessment task that requests learners to connect the graph and equation to a description about perimeter or area. Scholars then provide a...
Radford University
Sleep and Teen Obesity: Is there a Correlation?
Does the number of calories you eat affect the total time you sleep? Young mathematicians tackle this question by collecting their own data and making comparisons between others in the class through building scatter plots and regression...
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Exploring Vertical Asymptotes
Scholars identify the domain of a rational function in this precalculus lesson. They identify the removable discontinuity and label what will make the denominator zero. Learners also describe properties of the graph as it relates to the...
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Applying Trigonometric Functions To Real Life
Students examine where trigonometry exists outside the classroom. In this trigonometry lesson, students create trigonometric functions to match the data provided and to solve word problems relating to the real world.
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Classifying Functions
Eleventh graders sort different types of functions including rational, periodic, exponential, polynomial, quadratic, logarithmic and linear using "function cards." The functions are displayed in multiple representations including...
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Worksheet 8, Exponents
In this calculus worksheet, learners analyze one equation by finding the maximum number of zeros. They use Descarte's Rule of Signs and the rational roots theorem. Students use synthetic division to factor the polynomial. Learners solve...
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Math 155 Worksheet 1
In this college level Calculus worksheet, students review factoring, rationalization of a denominator, and functional notation to prepare for differentiation. The two page worksheet contains six problems. Answers are not...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Analyzing Numeric and Geometric Patterns of Paper Pool
Students use concrete and pictorial representation of geometric patterns to extend patterns. In this geometric patterns lesson plan, students identify patterns and extend them.
EngageNY
Complex Numbers and Transformations
Your learners combine their knowledge of real and imaginary numbers and matrices in an activity containing thirty lessons, two assessments (mid-module and end module), and their corresponding rubrics. Centered on complex numbers and...
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Worksheet 9: Trig Functions
In this math worksheet, students are given 7 problems in which they write expressions for trig functions, compute limits and graph functions.
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MT-A141 PreCalculus: Worksheet 5.1
In this precalculus worksheet, students evaluate and graph given functions. They identify the domain and asymptote of each equation. There are two multi-step problems to this worksheet.
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Radical Expressions
In this radical expressions worksheet, 11th graders solve and complete 55 various types of problems. First, they find the function value in each expression. Then, students simplify, assuming that variables represent real numbers. In...
Virginia Department of Education
Radical Equations
Provide students with the skill for how to examine algebraic and graphical approaches to solving radical equations. Learners solve various radical equations involving square root and cube root expressions. They first solve...
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Math Notes: Excluded Values in Rational Functions
A description and example of which values are excluded from the domain of a rational function.
Oregon State University
Oregon State University: Rational Functions
A look at graphs of rational expressions, finding properties of the graph by using calculus. Formulas included.