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Making Logic Out of Madness
Tenth graders organize and interpret data from a student health program. In this physical education lesson, 10th graders use a body composition analyzer over 8 weeks to determine the validity of a student health program. Data obtained...
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Introduction to Graphing
Students practice graphing activities. In this graphing lesson, students discuss ways to collect data and complete survey activities. Students visit a table and graphs website and then a create a graph website to practice graphing.
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Apple Adjectives
Study different apple varieties and use appropriate adjectives to describe them. Learners alphabetize both the apple names and the adjectives before creating spreadsheet, bar, and pie graphs. A mix of language arts, technology, and math!
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Counting Votes
Here's a great way to combine a good class discussion on nutrition with math. A class discussion on what can be made from vegetables is held, then learners all vote for their favorite vegetable. A graph is produced that shows the...
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Graph the Results: Applesauce Taste Test
Students work together to make applesauce following specific directions. They taste each applesauce and graph the results based on the taste test. They also use the internet to create an online graph.
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Class Color Count
Young scholars use the internet to research when different groups of people received the right to vote in the United States. As a class, they hold an election to determine the favorite color of the class. To end the lesson, they take the...
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Box and Whiskers
Middle schoolers discover how to relate collected data with a box and whiskers graph in a number of formats. They collect, organize, create, and interpret a box and whiskers graph. Pupils interpret the difference between sets of data,...
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Graphing Names in Historic Cemetery
Students collect information from headstones about names of the deceased in their local community. They determine the most common names and graph them. They discuss their findings with the class.
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Graphing Groundhog Predictions
Students create a bulletin board graph illustrating Punxsutawney Phil's past predictions. Students also perform research about past predictions. The learners also graph the predictions and answer questions about the data.
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Worksheet 10: Continuous Functions
In this math worksheet, students answer 7 questions regarding continuous functions, domains, differentiables, and inverse functions.
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Invasives and Marsh Birds
Students are taught that invasive plant removal can have a variety of impacts. They are shown this by using graphs. Students view maps of vegetation change on Iona Island. They discuss implications of changes on marsh birds using data...
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Transformations
In this transformations instructional activity, pupils draw the transformations of the triangles and parallelograms in graphs. They complete four drawings.
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Domain and Range
In this domain and range instructional activity, students write the definitions for relation, function, domain and range. They then find the domain and range of 7 sets of ordered pairs. Finally, students answer 4 questions regarding...
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Tables and xy-Coordinates
Use this graphing functions worksheet to have learners complete four tables and graph the results on the included coordinate grid.
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Graphs and Transformations of Functions
Is it possible to solve quadratic equations by factoring? It is, and your class will graph quadratic equation and functions too. They perform transformation on their graphs showing increasing and decreasing intervals, domain, and range....
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Graphs and Functions
Use this series of activities to introduce learners to graphing functions. They graph both linear and quadratic equations by hand and with a Graph Sketcher Tool. Several imbedded links and handouts are included in the lesson.
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MP3 Purchase Plans
Use algebra to solve real world problems. Mathematicians practice use of graphs, tables, and linear functions to solve a problem regarding mp3 purchase plans. They work in groups to solve the problem and present their findings and...
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Solving Inequalities
This is a nice worksheet on solving one variable and compound inequalities. Learners solve inequalities and graph the solution on a number line. The two page worksheet contains explanation and sixteen practice problems.
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Ice Cream Lab
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Even high schoolers enjoy making ice cream. This laboratory exercise has them record the temperature changes throughout the process of liquid becoming solid, graph the results, and...
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Finding the Limit: Piecewise Functions and Graphs
This pre-calculus worksheet is short, yet challenging. High schoolers calculate the limit of piecewise functions, rational functions, and graphs as x approaches a number from the positive or negative side. There are four questions.
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Lesson 19: Rational Functions and Long Division
Explore rational functions with this packet. A lot of information is provided, including several examples. Learners graph rational functions and find vertical, horizontal, and oblique asymptotes. This seven-page activity contains...
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Graphs to Represent a Data Set
By analyzing a word problem about hours worked in a week, scholars get valuable practice with bar graphs and data analysis. They read the scenario, then examine a table of data taken from it. The data includes four days and the...
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Graphs that Represent Data Sets
Use these pre-made data sets to introduce kids to bar graphs and data analysis, and then have them take surveys on their own. There are 10 survey scenarios written out here, and scholars synthesize the results of each into a bar graph....
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Graphs to Represent a Data Set
Here are a some pre-made sets of data that kids can use to practice data analysis. There are 10 survey scenarios written out, and scholars synthesize the results of each into a bar graph. In addition to the graphing, they answer two...