Students will explore literal equations using pictures/images to represent variables. Students use inverse operations and properties of equality to solve for the specified image.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a Desmos activity to explore domain and range of continuous functions. Students do not need prior knowledge of domain and range; this is an exploratory instructional activity.
Material Type: Interactive
In this Desmos activity, students will practice multiplying polynomials with Algebra Tiles. Students should have prior knowledge of the area model of multiplication before utilizing this resource.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This is an exploratory activity. Students should have some prior knowledge of evaluating functions for given domain inputs using function notation.This lesson will walk students through using a table and plotting points. By the end of the lesson students should walk away understanding that a line is infinitely many points.
Material Type: Interactive
Students investigate solutions to equations using algebra tiles. Solutions to Equations Investigation
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students observe patterns between the graph, x-intercepts, factored form, roots, equation, and zeros. They use the patterns they observed and the information given in one column to fill in the other columns.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students will be randomly assigned a point and a slope. They will use a movable point to plot a second point and receive visual feedback via animation as well as explicit written feedback about the slope of the line they created. All starting points and target slopes are generated randomly, so students in the class are not likely to get the same problems within a slide. They will all be practicing plotting points given a slope.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
Students explore the meaning of zero(s) of a function given functions represented in graphs, tables, and equations.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students translate verbal expressions to algebraic expressions. Included are both paper and online versions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students work independently, or in small groups, to simplify or evaluate sets of four expressions, then calculate the sum of their answers. This activity is self-checking, using a Google Form.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students solve multistep equations (with variables on only one side). Students choose between two models/equations at each of six points in this Google Form activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
This is a collection of journal prompts for algebra topics in Desmos activities.
Material Type: Assessment
Students will use racing information (speed or speed and head start) to predict the winner of a race. Then students create a table and a graph to determine which racer wins.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students explore x- and y-intercepts of functions represented on the coordinate plane.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this self-checking activity, students will match 18 cards, identifying the slope, y-intercept, and slope-intercept form of each equation to match each of the six tables.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students solve 12 multistep equations that have a single solution. As correct solutions are found, a picture is slowly revealed.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
Students tell the story of a jellyfish moving through the water using transformations of quadratic functions in standard form.Students sketch graphs of the transformations.Students put all four transformations on one graph to check that their story and transformations work as desired. Students may change any transformations prior to submission.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students review domain, range, and intervals of increasing and decreasing using a draggable point to help them find extrema. Students find both absolute and relative extrema.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students evaluate functions to make a connection to compositions of functions. Students then practice finding compositions of functions. Students end the activity evaluating compositions of functions both algebraically and graphically with a challenge that includes multiple compositions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will practice performing operations and compositions of functions in this activity where a roll of dice determines the functions and two practice problems for the functions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
