National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Hospitality and Tourism 1: Safety and Sanitation
Math and science come alive in this career-related lesson on sanitation. Along the way, learners explore bacterial growth rates using exponential notation and graphs. A link to a very brief, but vivid video shows just how quickly these...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Hospitality and Tourism 2: Costing
The lesson plan provides a richly detailed narrative and sample problems for teaching or reinforcing how to work with percentages. In particular, your audience will compute the costs per serving of food and simulate setting menu prices...
Curated OER
Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
Define, simplify, add, and subtract polynomials. Identify the degrees of a polynomial. Determine if a polynomial is a monomial, a binomial, or a trinomial. Then look at simplifying a polynomial by combining the coefficient values of like...
Curated OER
Exploring Solving Equations
Put out by Texas Instruments, this lesson involves learners in an activity focused on adding polynomials, solving equations, factoring trinomials, and expanding binomials. A TI-89 calculator is needed to complete this lesson.
Curated OER
Application of Completing the Square
A TI technology activity that helps learners to recognize and use the characteristic of a perfect square quadratic to complete the square. Additionally, they apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Color This Polynomial Simplified
Help learners use a variety of methods to identify, visualize, and simplify polynomials with like terms. Several different visuals are used to introduce the instructional activity, such as colored pencils, overheads, interactive white...
Virginia Department of Education
A Mystery to Solve
Investigate field properties of real numbers. Scholars use a table for a given operation to determine the identity element. They use the same table to find a missing value in an equation.
EngageNY
Advanced Factoring Strategies for Quadratic Expressions (part 2)
What do you do with a difficult-to-factor quadratic expression? This lesson plan provides the answer. Pupils learn a grouping strategy to help factor trinomials. When guess and check seems too tedious, this method is the "works...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Health Science: Back to Basics
This lesson plan focuses on unit conversion, proportions, ratios, exponents, and the metric system. Discuss measurement with your math class and demonstrate how to solve several health-science word problems. Give learners a chance to...
Curated OER
Special Products
Looking for a worksheet on special products of binomials? This one-page document includes two separate assignments on special products. Problems include multiplying binomials in the form (a+b)^2,(a-b)^2,(a + b)(a -b), as well as a few...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Fortune Properties
Complete identity and equality property problems in hands-on activities. Smart cookies identify the identity and equality properties. They complete a review of order of operations, watch an online video, and make a foldable with the...
Curated OER
Area "FOILed" Again!
Learners perform factoring on the TI. In this algebra lesson, high schoolers factor equations using the FOIL method. They use the TI navigator to show each step using a visual.
Texas Instruments
Expanding - Using CAS
Young scholars explore binomial multiplication. They use a TI-nspire handheld to investigate the relationship between the binomial multiplication problem and the resulting trinomial.
Curated OER
Binomial Multiplication
Learners explore binomial multiplication through the use of technology. Using a graphing calculator, you pupils enter the binomial expression into Y1, multiply the binomials and enter that result into Y2, and combine like terms and enter...
Curated OER
Graph Polynomial Functions
Pupils explore a method of checking the sum or difference of polynomials by graphing the problem and the simplified answer and comparing the graphs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
"Like Terms", I Add Them
Ninth graders add and subtract polynomials. In this Algebra I lesson plan, 9th graders work practice problems as they view a PowerPoint presentation of the lesson plan. Both the horizontal and vertical methods of addition and...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
Twenty-five problems present a variety of problems adding and subtracting polynomials. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution"...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Adding, Subtracting and Multiplying Polynomials
Forty-four problems present a variety of practice adding, subtracting and multiplying polynomials. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
A detailed explanation of polynomials and like terms is followed with many examples of how to add and subtract them. Lessons for the teacher as well as interactive examples for the students provide plenty of opportunities for practice....
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
A tutorial as an introduction to polynomials. Basic terminology and simple algebraic manipulations. Offers discussions and practice exercises with answers and explanations.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Adding Polynomials
Get independent practice working with adding polynomials. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Subtract Polynomials
Get independent practice working with subtracting polynomials. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Multiplying Polynomials
Get independent practice working with multiplying polynomials. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Introduction to Some Algebra Concelpts Using Cas
This series of activities provides an introduction to some Algebra concelpts using CAS. The activities start with Algebra tiles and CAS. Patterning is modelled for the students so that they can construct the knowledge rather than be...