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Math Mondays: Graphing exponential functions worksheet alternative
Wouldn’t it be great if every topic could be highly engaging? Or if you had time and creativity to “play” with topics? It would. In reality, time is scarce. Furthermore, and I hope it's not just me, some topics are just not that inspiring.
Math Mondays: Teaching Work, Motion and Mixture Problems in Algebra 2
As part of our rational functions unit in Algebra 2, we stumble on the troubling work, mixture and motion word problems. You know, if train a leaves at 1 and train b leaves at 3 and...or if one pipe fills a tub at a rate of 20 liters per minute and another pipe drains it at 12 liters per minute... my students groan when we get to these. Despite having worked with word problems and real world applications for years leading up to this topic, it is still a struggle for many students.
Math Mondays: Mini-Project for graphing radicals
Here’s a fun little project for graphing radicals that can be done by hand or on a graphing calculator such as Desmos. Students use square and cube roots to create a piece of art.
Math Mondays: Raising the Roof with Trigonometry
Trigonometry is covered over three units in my Precalculus class. In the first unit we work on graphing trigonometry and trigonometric functions. The second trigonometry unit includes such topics of angles of depression and elevation, identities and the law of sines and cosines. The final trigonometry unit works with vectors.