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Comparing Area of Rectangles

In this activity, students discover the relationship between a change in the dimensions of a rectangle and the change in the corresponding area.
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Algebra vocabulary terms

This StudyCards™ activity includes the definitions for 15 algebra terms for which the students need to identify the correct vocabulary term.
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Give Me a Hand or Leaf Me Alone - TI-83

In this activity, students find the surface area of geometric shapes cut from card paper and relate it to its mass. They use this data to find the surface area of irregularly shaped objects.
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Exploring Platonic Solids

This activity is best at the very beginning of a unit on solids. Students will observe Platonic solids using an interactive website (from the NLVM) projected to the whole class. Students will predict the number of edges, vertices, and faces of the five solids and record their predictions on a Lea...
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Handy Reflections

The purpose of this investigation is to: Revise plotting points on the Cartesian plane Use and understand aspect ratios Improve estimation skills Use a spreadsheet or a graphing calculator to draw a graph Learn how to reflect lines and points in the x & y axis.
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Calculating Sale Prices

In this activity, students will find discounts and sale prices for items selling at 20% off and 40% off by using tables. They will then find the general rules, using a variable, for finding those discounts and prices.
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Centers of a Triangle

The centroid, circumcenter, orthocenter, and incenter are the four classic centers of a triangle that are studied in geometry. In this activity, you will construct these center points and discover their properties.
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Hey, Ortho! What’s Your Altitude?

In this activity, students will explore the altitudes of a triangle. Students will discover that the altitude can be inside, outside, or a side of the triangle. Students will discover that the altitudes are concurrent. The point of concurrency is the orthocenter. Students should discover the rela...
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Investigating Area Relationships

The interactive Cabri Jr. geometry application makes it easy to measure the area of triangles and quadrilaterals. In this activity, students will explore some interesting area relationships in quadrilaterals.
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Area of a Regular Polygon

This activity has the students derive the formula for finding the area of a regular polygon. Demonstrating the procedure of constructing a regular polygon in front of the class maybe necessary depending on the students prior experience
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Loans- Days Between Dates

In this activity, students will determine the number of days between dates. They will find the amount due on a loan at the end of a term, which may be in days, months or years.
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Bonds and Bond Yield to Maturity

In this activity, students will deal with Bonds, that are long-term promissory notes, specifying that the creditor will receive regular interest payments for the term of the agreement and then receive the face amount of the bond. Students will have to estimate the market value of bonds and explor...
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Betweenness and the Sum of Parts

In this activity, students' will explore the concepts of betweenness and the sum of parts visually, geometrically, and numerically for segments and angles using the Cabri® Jr. application. They will investigate how the sum of parts equals the whole.
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Bisectors

Students investigate the Perpendicular Bisector Theorem and examine its converse. They also explore the Angle Bisector Theorem.
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Identifying Qualitative Graphs

In this activity, you will identify the graph that shows the situation described.
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House

Students use the Cabri Geometry™ II Plus software to invert, rotate and dilate a figure.
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Quadratic Formula

Students make connections between the visual ways to find zeros of a parabola and algebraic ways with an emphasis on the quadratic formula.
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Constructing Circles

In this activity, students will investigate the construction of circles that pass through a given number of points. They will also investigate the number of points needed to generate a unique circle in a plane.
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Constructing Triangles

This activity focuses on the various ways to construct the different types of triangles such as isosceles, equilateral, right, and right isosceles triangles. Students will begin by constructing triangles based on a minimal definition of the shape of the triangle. They will then make constructions...
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NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Traffic" - Birthday Surprise

Students will study the birthday problem and other similar applications.
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NUMB3RS - Season 3 - "Finders Keepers" - Barging In

In "Finders Keepers," the body of a diver is found in the ocean. The body is traced to a salvage barge that has a bloody handprint on it. After further investigation, it is discovered that the blood is not from the dead diver, but someone else murdered on the barge. In order to find the other vic...
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Perfect Squares and Roots

StudyCards(tm) to practice solving square root problems.
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Sequence of Bounces

In this activity, students will explore the rebound heights of a ball and develop a sequence that will predict the rebound height of subsequent bounces. They will also find the total distance that the ball travels.
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Sequence of Bounces Activity - Modeling Motion

This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 12 in the Explorations book, Modeling Motion: High School Math Activities with the CBR by Linda Antinone, Sam Gough, and Jill Gough (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997).
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Circumcenter and Incenter

In this activity, students examine the location of the circumcenter and incenter for different triangles.
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