A good prompt is hard to find, especially ones that encourage application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of a text. Help is here in the form of a prompt list for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four that offers essay topics that...

There are so many things to discover about the sun! Pupils discuss their knowledge of the sun, explore its features, apply their knowledge by labeling photographs, and then reflect on their learning by working in groups to draw and label...

Students investigate simple linear functions by trying to guess a function rule from inputs and outputs. They write the function rule in algebraic form.

Elementary schoolers use a function machine in order to help them look at the relationship between input and output, and to look at the rule for the change. The machine is actually a cardboard box, and it serves quite well for the...

Transform your instruction with an exploratory lesson! Young scholars manipulate absolute values and quadratic functions to look for transformation patterns. They use the patterns to write general rules of transformations.

In this functions worksheet, students solve 70 short answer questions. Students find domain of functions and evaluate them for a given value. Students determine if a mapping diagram represents a function.

For this exponential functions worksheet, high schoolers solve and complete 13 various types of problems. First, they define what is different and what is the same about exponential and linear functions. Then, students write a rule for...

Fabulous functions are the focus of this handout. Middle school math pupils complete input/output tables and answer questions about the values. Each of the three equations contains two variables. This simple worksheet would be useful as...

Provide your mathematicians with a way to organize their algebraic functions with this function machine handout. Each sheet provides a place to write down the rule and then either a t-table or full table to organize their input and output.

Using a TI-Nspire calculator, learners will work to better understand function notation and input/output functions. They write equations with a function symbols, identify what makes an equation a function, and graph lines in order to...

Young historians climb through the three branches of the US government in the third lesson of this five-part series. While reading the first three Articles of the Constitution in small groups, children write facts on paper leaves...

Learners analyze the Declaration of Independence. They identify and describe various sections of the document then discuss how the colonists responded to it. As a culminating activity, they write their own declarations of independence as...

Inquiry-based learning and investigations form the basis of a deep understanding of quadratic functions in a very thorough unit plan.  Learners develop recursive and closed methods for representing real-life situations,...

In this calculus instructional activity, students use the chain rule to derive functions. They use function notations correctly as they solve word problems using the derivative. There are 3 questions.

Use a straightforward approach to understanding logarithmic properties and their role in solving exponential and logarithmic equations to your math class. The lesson begins with an overview of a logarithmic function and its...

Create rules for numerical sequences. Pupils develop local rules and recursive rules for number sequences. The sequences are linear, quadratic, and cubic in nature. Scholars find that some local rules do not work, no matter where in...

Pupils analyze a pattern of conference tables to determine the number of tables needed and the number of people that can be seated for a given size. Individuals develop general formulas for the two growing number patterns and...

Discover relationships between linear and nonlinear functions. Initially, a set of data seems linear, but upon further exploration, pupils realize the data can model an infinite number of functions. Scholars use multiple representations...

Eighth and ninth graders solve and graph 24 different problems that include completing input/output tables and graphing the pairs. First, they find the missing values for each table and write the rule for x. Then, students write the...

In this function rules worksheet, students complete each function table or rule. Students complete the input and output sections for each table using the given numbers. Students complete two test prep questions.

Students explore arithmetic and numerical patterns. After observing a teacher created function box, students describe a pattern and predict what will "come out" of the function box. They explore patterns such as geometric shapes,...

In this related rates problem activity, students use the chain rule and implicit differentiation to solve related rate problems, such an writing an expression relating to the ripple of a circle. This three-page activity contains eleven...

In this function tables worksheet, 11th graders solve 10 different problems that include completing various function tables. First, they read and identify each rule given for the tables. Then, students use the rule to determine the input...

Tenth graders study graphing exponential functions. In this transformations lesson plan, 10th graders apply inquiry to determine how changes to a parent function affect its graph. Students analyze transformed graphs and generate the...