Virginia Department of Education
Balanced
Bring balance to your lesson plans with an activity that asks individuals to solve one-step linear equations with inverse operations. Balance scales help learners understand the concept of isolating the variable.
Curated OER
Conjectures and Conclusions
Students draw conclusions and make conjectures given a specific scenario. In this geometry lesson, students model real life scenarios using properties of triangles. They model number facts and explain why the outcome is what it is.
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Translate Word Phrases and Sentences into Equations
Use this video to show your learners an example of how to translate word phrases into an equation to solve a real-world problem. The presenter begins with a review of how to use cross products to solve a proportion, including how to do...
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Solving Linear Equations
Use this worksheet for practice or review solving linear equations in one variable. Problems range from multiple-step problems involving parentheses and combining like terms, to word problems, to equations with no solution or infinitely...
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A Polynomial Quilt
Tenth graders create polynomial quilts. In this polynomials lesson, 10th graders use concrete models, such as construction paper, to create various shapes described. Students use the FOIL method to multiply terms and to get a square...
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The Apple Orchard Problem
Students explore various approaches to solving a problem of maximizing the total production of apples in an orchard. In this apple orchard instructional activity, students collect data in order to solve the apple orchard problem...
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Math Regents Exam Questions: Combinations
In this combinations worksheet, students solve 20 short answer and multiple choice questions. Students determine the number of possible combinations given a word problem.
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Graphing Linear Inequalities
Eighth graders extend skills for representing and solving linear equations to linear inequalities. Lesson activities build understanding and skill by plotting ordered pairs of numbers that either satisfy or do not satisfy a given...
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Hybrid Vehicles: Cut Pollution and Save Money
Students examine how driving a hybrid car can save money and cut down on pollution. In this hybrid vehicles lesson students complete an exercise that shows them how to work with proportions, percents, dimensional analysis and linear...
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Tower of Hanoi Lesson Plan
Students investigate the Legend of the Tower of Hanoi and complete mathematical problems related to the legend. They play the Tower of Hanoi game online in order to discover the number pattern involved. They solve problems using the...
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Earthquakes
Eighth graders demonstrate the mathematical components of a scientific problem as well as illustrate how real world problems can be solved using math. They demonstrate math skills such as rate calculation, graphing, and linear equations.
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Christmas Presents
Seventh graders create a graph of their Christmas gifts. They develop categories, compute fractional and decimal parts for each category, identify the number of degrees to represent each fractional part, and create a circle graph to...
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How Many Bears in the Forest?
Third graders model the tag and recapture of bears and use proportions to estimate the population of the bears in their forest. This is a statistical sampling method used by scientists and naturalists to determine population numbers.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Algebra 2
This Algebra 2 course has interactivity included in every lesson. Lessons include questions with immediate feedback to help you learn along the way, videos, lots of interactives (PLIX and Sims), and Adaptive Practice questions help you...
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Algebra 2 Review
A more advanced review of Algebra II concepts allows students to test their readiness for higher level math courses. Topics range from absolute value to rational expressions.
Math Medics
S.o.s. Math: Algebra
This lesson provides basic instruction on the major concepts in algebra. Content includes a focus on fractions, units of conversion, complex numbers, quadratic equations, factorization and roots of polynomials, solving equations, systems...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Algebra 2: Graph Rational Functions
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family to analyze the end behavior of polynomial functions.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Algebra 2: Basic Knowledge of Polynomial Functions
Polynomial functions are investigated through examples and a video lesson. [0:57]
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Intermediate Algebra
This site is a tutorial for students in algebra 2 or for those who need a refresher. The site has explanations, definitions, examples, practice problems and practice tests are found covering topics such as linear equations, graphing,...
University of Vienna (Austria)
Math Online: Functions
This interactive site uses applets to show sample graphs of each simple power function, a function plotter, graph puzzles, and more. Great site.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Graphing the Rational Function F(x)=1/x
This is designed for Algebra 2 students to help them develop an understanding of transformations, asymptotes, domain and range.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Precalculus Concepts 2.0
A complete high school Precalculus Concepts course. Includes 'Related Modalities' for each lesson that teach the same concept in different ways. The text materials follows Algebra II and comes before Calculus or Statistics. The content...
Richland Community College
Richland Community College: Math 116 Lecture Notes
This site from the Richland Community College provides the detailed lecture notes to a college algebra course, complete with equations and definitions. Content ranges from "functions and their graphs" to "conics and parametric equations."
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Tortoise and the Hare
In this activity, students develop patterns using two or more rational number quantities. They comprehend the concept of functions by understanding the relationship between these quantities and their sums.