Polynomials - Lesson 2. Teach Me How To Factor (WSHS Math Rap Song) Mr. E. The number bender. Angry Birds Geogebra. Angry Birds is a pretty popular game with the kids nowadays. My students brought up the game when we started talking about parabolas and I've been working on a way to bring that connection into a class. So, I created a lesson using GeoGebra and some screenshots from Angry Birds mixed in with some inspiration from Dan'sWill The Ball Hit The Can? I created 4 GeoGebra files each with a piece of a different Angry birds shot like so: Using GeoGebra, students worked in groups of 2 on their laptops to place points onto the bird's trail as accurately as possible to create a quadratic models in order to decide if the bird would score a direct hit on any of the pigs.
Some commands that helped them place their points accurately: CTRL= Zooms in CTRL- Zooms out CTRL CLICK DRAG Pans your view Once students finished their files would look something similar to the file shown here: We then discussed if they thought they scored a hit, what would happen when it hit, and then showed them the big reveal: Angry Birds - Activities - Teach Maths. 'Take aim and shoot those naughty pigs! ' The pigs have stolen the birds’ eggs. That makes them angry, very angry. They take aim and launch themselves towards the pigs to get their revenge and reclaim their babies.
Based on the classic angry birds game you will be guiding the birds to ensure that their aim is good. Enter the correct quadratic equation and birds fly on the right path and knock out the pigs. There are four levels to this game. Angry Birds 1 If you find the games below a little difficult maybe you should try Angry Birds 1 - The Prequel. You can discover the properties of graph in the form y = a (x - h) (x - k) This short video will give you an idea of what this activity entails. Resources The Angry Birds worksheet has the four questions with the required information (3 sets of coordinates) to be able to calculate the correct equation of the correct path.
You will find the associated angry bird games below. Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Description Quadratic Movers Quadratic Links. Modeling with Angry Birds: Where will it land? « mcdoteaching. This is a fantastic activity that students just love. With over 250 million downloads, they all know the game and it’s a great way to apply their knowledge of quadratics to a familiar and fun setting. Although I wish I could, I can’t take full credit for this idea having originally learned about it through reading other blogs.
Almost immediately after hearing about it I did a Google image search for screen shots that would work for this activity but had no luck. What you need for this are two screen shots: one of the bird mid-flight (half of the parabolic path it travels), and one of the completed path traveled. Using my ultra-quick reflexes and a snipping tool I was able to get what I needed. ;-) A brief summary of the activity follows. Guidelines Either in groups of 2 or individually, pass out screen shots of the bird in mid-flight. The image was uploaded to GSP and points were plotted. Points A, F, and the origin were chosen to derive this model. Variations: Extensions: Like this:
Mr. Orr is a Geek.com » Angry Birds – Parabolas. Students design their own Angry Birds level. They also have to develop equations for two flight paths. Practice Worksheets/Graphs and Statistics/FREQUENCY_HISTOGRAMS_BAR_GRAPHS_AND_TABLES_IA.pdf. Using Recursion to Explore Real-World Problems | STEM. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org. Drag and Drops. Arithmetic Sequences (with videos, worksheets, games. Free educational learning basic math videos- Introduction to function notation and interval notation.
Introduction to Functions. Introduction to Functions Abstract This lesson is designed to introduce students to the idea of functions and their representations as rules and data tables, including the mathematical notions of independent and dependent variables. Objectives Upon completion of this lesson, students will: have been introduced to functions have learned the terminology used with functions have practiced describing functions with one operation in English sentences, data tables, and with simple algebraic expressions. Standards The activities and discussions in this lesson address the following NCTM standards: Algebra Understand patterns, relationships and functions represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and, when possible, symbolic rules; relate and compare different forms of representation for a relationship; identify functions as linear or nonlinear and contrast their properties from tables, graphs, or equations.
Student Prerequisites Teacher Preparation Key Terms. Algebra II Lesson 2.1 "Introduction to Functions" Tutorial. Introduction to Linear Functions - MathOps. Introduction to functions | Functions. 1.6 - Lesson - Introduction to Functions Video Lesson. Introduction to Functions Gizmo. Introduction to Functions. Linear Functions in Action. Activity 1 Provide students with a Scatter Plot worksheet (M-8-7-3_Scatter Plot.docx) and project the following scatter plot for students to see (the plot below is identical to the one on the worksheet): “This scatter plot shows the heights of 24 different kids from ages 1 to 7 years.”
Review how to read a scatter plot (i.e., ask students to estimate the heights of the three 1-year-olds, the 5-year-olds, etc.), to ensure that they are reading the scatter plot correctly. “Does the scatter plot tell us anything about the heights of any 8-year-olds?” Have students write down their extrapolated guess based on the data in the plot for the height, in inches, of an 8-year-old. “Is it possible for an 8-year-old to be 40 inches tall?” Continue asking about predictions, increasing by 1 or 2 each time (i.e., next ask if anyone predicted 42 inches, and so on). Steer the conversation towards using a ruler, the edge of a piece of notebook paper, or some other straightedge to help make a prediction. Introduction to Functions. There are many algebra books that have many ways of defining a function. Chances are if you look at four different books you would find at least two different explanations of a function.
Does this mean some explanations are right and others are wrong or that there are numerous definitions for a function? Not really. The definition of a function never changes, but the way teachers and textbooks explain that definition take on many forms. We’re going to look at functions in the following way. A function is a relationship that meets certain conditions between two variables. One of the easiest ways to look at functions and relations is by looking at ordered pairs of numbers .
Consider the following set of ordered pairs: When dealing with ordered pairs, the independent variable is listed first and the dependent variable is listed second. Domain of range of So now we have another way to look at our explanation of a function. We can find the domain of . Consider the function . Algebra 1 Unit 2 Linear Functions. Domain and Range of a Function | Functions. Ride the Line...A Game for Parallel & Perpendicular. Last week we were investigating linear equations....in particular what parallel and perpendicular lines look like as equations, not just graphs.
When you do all the graphing by hand or even on a handheld graphing calculator, this is pretty slow. Also the Common Core calls upon us to provide more discussion oriented kinds of learning designs....we're incorporate a bunch of the mathematical practices here---reason abstractly, construct viable arguments and accept feedback, model and use tools to investigate math ideas. I'd say that this is a CCSS home run.
I tried a different learning technique, so in honor of #msSunFun this is my game contribution. So we jumped over to one of the free online graphing calculators. Into the calculator and show the resulting graphs of all those lines. I had them look for patterns in what the equations must look like in order to create a pattern of lines that looked like this. This gave them more trouble. So they tested out their ideas again. Explore Lessons. Explorequadratics. Brain-Cells GCSE Revision - 2. Regions on Graph. An unusual way to teach plotting straight line graphs… Image via Wikipedia I bet you’ve not seen this one before… After putting across the idea of the relationship, and motivating the pupils by explaining how the next time they are out and about in the countryside and want to know what the temperature is they can work it out by listening to crickets, give them this worksheet which gets them plotting the linear relationship between degrees fahrenheit and chirps per minute.
The worksheet is quite scaffolded and I took some artistic (mathematician’s) license to adjust the coefficients of the equation so that it was more appropriate for secondary school pupils to work with. After working out their table of values and plotting the straight line graph they are given questions that assess their ability to interpret the graph.
A really nice plenary to this lesson is to get a pupil up at the front and get them to do cricket chirping noises with the rest of the class counting how many they made in a minute.