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EngageNY

Integer Exponents

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Fold, fold, and fold some more. In the first installment of a 35-part module, young mathematicians fold a piece of paper in half until it can not be folded any more. They use the results of this activity to develop functions for the area...
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EngageNY

Awkward! Who Chose the Number 360, Anyway?

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Don't give your classes the third degree. Use radians instead! While working with degrees, learners find that they are not efficient and explore radians as an alternative. They convert between the two measures and use radians with the...
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EngageNY

Basic Trigonometric Identities from Graphs

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Have young mathematicians create new identities! They explore the even/odd, cofunction, and periodicity identities through an analysis of tables and graph. Next, learners discover the relationships while strengthening their...
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EngageNY

Euler’s Number, e

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Scholars model the height of water in a container with an exponential function and apply average rates of change to this function. The main attraction of the lesson is the discovery of Euler's number. 
Assessment
Concord Consortium

All-in-All Problems

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
Graphs, functions, symbols, and more! Use these strategies to model everything from the flow of a river to the number of cars passing a toll booth. Presented differently but solved similarly, learners consider five different scenarios...
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Mt. San Antonio Collage

Quiz 2: Polynomials

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Four questions that get right to the polynomial point. High schoolers list all the attributes of a polynomial function, including finding all complex zeros. The last two questions prompt them to write a function based on the given...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

College and Career Readiness Mathematics Test A1

For Students 9th - 12th
A six-page test covers content from several different high school math courses. It incorporates a few short answer, graphing, and word problems. It also allows room for mathematical reasoning and analysis.
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Losing Track

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't lose the chance to use the task. Given three diagrams of curved pieces of wires, young mathematicians must explain whether it's possible to conclusively match the wires as representing cubic, exponential, or quadratic functions....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Real-World Linear Programming

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore linear programming on a website game. Partners solve a real-world problem by setting up an objective function and a linear inequality. They graph their results on chart paper and also using a calculator before presenting their...
Assessment
EngageNY

Mid-Module Assessment Task: Pre-Calculus Module 4

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Challenge scholars to show what they know about properties and addition and subtraction formulas for trigonometric functions. The resource provides a mid-unit check on the progress toward mastery of trigonometric concepts. The areas...
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EngageNY

An Area Formula for Triangles

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Use a triangle area formula that works when the height is unknown. The eighth installment in a 16-part series on trigonometry revisits the trigonometric triangle area formula that previously was shown to work with the acute triangles....
Assessment
EngageNY

End-of-Module Assessment Task: Pre-Calculus Module 4

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Challenge your scholars to show what they know about the Law of Sines, Law of Cosines, and inverses. The six-question assessment is the last in a series of 16. Pupils find the area of triangles and show that the Law of Sines and Law of...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mixed Tables

For Students 3rd - 4th
These dinosaurs act like math machines as scholars practice their division skills. Each one has a given division function to apply to four incoming dividends. Pupils complete the equations, writing in the quotient for each. There...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Introduction to Logarithms

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Build on pupils' understanding of inverse functions by connecting logarithmic functions to exponential functions. This activity allows individuals to see graphically the inverse relationship between an exponential and logarithmic...
Worksheet
Math Guy

Algebra 2 Practice Final

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Work out to Algebra II with the 50-question worksheet that practices different types of functions. Multiple choice questions focus on topics such as rational, radical, and logarithmic functions. The resource comes with a printed answer...
Assessment
Concord Consortium

You Are What You Drive

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Grab the wheel in learning about functions. A short performance task challenges young mathematicians to develop a function that describes the cars eight people drive. They consider whether the inverse of the function exists. If not, they...
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Texas Instruments

Finding Linear Models Part III

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore linear functions! In this Algebra I instructional activity, mathematicians graph data in a scatter plot and use a graphing calculator to find a linear regression and/or a median-median line. They use the model to make predictions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Piecewise Practice Problems

For Students 10th - 12th
In this algebra worksheet, students validate continuity of a graph by a defined interval as well as determine continuity of a piecewise function.
Assessment
EngageNY

Mid-Module Assessment Task - Algebra 2 (Module 1)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Challenge classes to think deeply and apply their understanding of polynomials. The assessment prompts learners to use polynomial functions to model different situations and use them to make predictions and conclusions.
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Motion of the Moon, Sun, and Stars—Motivating Mathematics

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
What does math have to do with the behavior of the earth and sun? Learn how the movement of celestial bodies has influenced the development of trigonometry. Scholars connects the details in mathematics to their...
Activity
PBL Pathways

Doctors and Nurses

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
How many nurses does it take to support one doctor? A project-based activity asks learners to analyze state data to answer this question. Classes create polynomial functions from the data of doctors and nurses over a seven-year...
Assessment
Concord Consortium

It's In the Mail

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
It's time to check the mail! The task is to determine the most cost-effective way to mail a packet of information. Young scholars write an equation that models the amount of postage as a function of the number of sheets mailed and...
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Rising Prices

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What will that cost in the future? The scenario provides pupils with a growth as a Consumer Price Index. Learners create functions for a given item to determine future prices and graph them. Class members then compare their functions to...
Assessment
Achieve

Spread of Disease

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Viruses can spread like wildfire, and mathematics can model the speed of infection. Given a function, scholars analyze it to describe the spread of a disease within a stadium. Learners find the initial number infected and the maximum...

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