Transformations Hands on activity

I came up with this activity to help my students understand vertex form and how the equation change as the parabola shifts up, down, right or left. It took me a little long to make the files so the parabola printed on the transparent paper match exactly the parent function. It was worthy it worked :)

I would like to add the files for you to use it but I am still learning this blog tools. I don't find the attach file option I am adding the files in my teacherspayteachers as a free download

line of symmetry equation

I was amazed of the trouble my students were having writing the line of symmetry for a parabola knowing the vertex. I decided to do more practice and made this worksheet

You can find this worksheet in teacherspayteachers

Simplifying radicals cut and paste activity

Today my students did the matching cut and paste activity. They were engage. It was a nice review activity

Simplifying radicals, San Valentine activity

Thinking about my activity for Valentines' day I decided to create a matching activity to simplify radicals

I will cut the rectangles and have students cut out each halve heart and find the match once found glue them to complete the heart 💙

I just uploaded the pdf in teachers-pay-teachers :)

Quadratic Equations part 1

Yesterday I was struggling in how to deliver the lesson to my Algebra 1 students. like 3 months ago we talked about quadratic functions comparing them with linear and exponential functions. today we were to cover characteristics, info from graph or  equations. After spending some times looking for the best flow for the lesson I came with:

Matching activity (word-definition) I used it like an anticipation guide

Demonstrate the change in the graph when a>0 and a<0 I used Geogebra to help students compare and come with the difference because of a value.

Present standard form and vertex form equation, what information we can get from each of them

Practice with Algebra Nation workbook as well with worksheet from McDougall.

The class went pretty well. Students were working and getting an understanding of quadratics.

Friday we will be graphing from a table :)

Simplifying radicals

Many of my students struggle with Math. Last week we practice prime factorization, laying the foundation for this week topic: Simplifying radicals.

I had to start with some examples of prime factorization in the radical sign

My levels 1 felt comfortable to try simplifying radicals after the examples.

My second activity was a card activity where students working in partners draw two cards and find the prime factorization formed by the cards and simplify the radical

Students were engaged, my next class will be simplifying radicals including variables :)

Activity link https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Simplifying-radicals-card-activity-3002236