Student Resources

Unit 2

Activities

1 Customers Cut the Cake
The three activities in this investigation center on situations involving rational numbers and proportions that students encounter at a bakery.
2 In Your Shadow
Using proportions, students will measure the heights and shadows of familiar objects and use indirect measurement to find the heights of things that are much bigger in size, such as a flagpole, a school building, or a tree.
3 Polygon Pattern
A hands-on lesson where students will identify/describe common polygons and convert between percent and fraction notation.
4 Shopping Mall Math
Students participate in an activity in which they develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. They develop their skills in determining percents and estimating area.
5 What's Your Rate?
Students learn to write and solve proportions by gathering data and calculating unit rates based upon personal interactive data.

eText

6 Glencoe Mathematics: Application
These are companion resources to the MSM I textbook and include: parent and student study guides, lesson-by-lesson review quizzes, research sources for chapter projects, interdisciplinary research information, career connections, interactive vocabulary games, and more.

eTools

7 How Much Does It Cost?
Higher level prompt involving discount of an item.
8 Percentages
This virtual manipulative allows a student to enter any two of the three quantities involved in any percentage computation, the whole, a part, and the percent (which is the number of hundredths when dividing the part by the whole). The setup lends itself to a profitable discussion of relations among fractions, decimals, ratios, and percentages.

Games

9 Fish in a Pond
A collection of two colors of fish is to be placed into three ponds to create specified ratios within each pond. Students should find out if there is more than one solution and then make up similar problems for their classmates.

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Tutorials

13 Percents of a Whole Number
This site teaches you a procedure for finding the percent of a whole number.
14 Ratio and Proportion
This website gives a definition of proportions and allows the user to practice solving proportions.

Web

15 Discount and Sales Price Calculator
This calculator helps determine the sales price of an item.
16 Percent Problem Solver
This selection will show you how to solve word problems involving percents.
17 Sales Tax (by State)
This table lists each state's sales tax.
18 Tip Calculator
This page will show you how to figure a tip you should leave at a restaurant.

Unit 3

Activities

1 Comparing Integers
Comparing integers with and interactive web site.

eTools

2 Coordinate Plot (Simple Plot)
This applet allows the user to input a series of (x,y) ordered pairs and plot them either as a connected function or unconnected data points. Parameters such as minimum and maximum x value, minimum and maximum y value, and x- and y-scale can be set by the user or determined by the applet.

Games

3 Maze Game (Shodor)
Provides practice with coordinates. The user plots points to guide a robot through a mine field.

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Tutorials

8 Introduction to Integers
This investigation uses number lines, color chips, and a variety of scenarios to help students understand what an integer is and how to do signed addition, subtraction and multiplication.

Web

9 Comparing Numbers
This selection will show how to compare two numbers using a number line. This will allow you to tell if a number is larger or smaller than another number, using a number line.

Unit 4

Activities

1 Hands-On Lesson
Using this hands-on activity, students will express relationships of variables as equations, inequalities and expressions using the area of triangles.
2 One-Step Equations
On-line game assessing the knowledge of solving one-step equations.

eTools

3 Algebra Balance
This interactive pan balance allows numeric or algebraic expressions to be entered and compared. You can "weigh" the expressions you want to compare by entering them on either side of the balance. Using this interactive tool, you can practice arithmetic and algebraic skills, and investigate the important concept of equivalence.
4 Algebra Balance Scales
Solve simple linear equations using a balance beam representation.
5 Algebra Tiles
Students will represent the idea of a variable as an unknown quantity or quantities using a letter or a symbol and model problem situations with objects and use representations such as graphs, tables, and equations to draw conclusions.
6 Pan Balance
This interactive pan balance allows numeric or algebraic expressions to be entered and compared.
7 Pan Balance - Shapes
This double pan balance provides an interesting environment in which to consider the concept of equivalence using shapes.
8 Pan Balance Shapes
With each problem, four shapes are assigned unknown values. By stacking shapes on the two balance pans, the user attempts to balance the scale and then create additional balances. A numbers version and an expressions version are extensions of this applet.

Games

9 Order of Operations Bingo
Instead of calling numbers to play Bingo, you call (and write) expressions to be evaluated for the numbers on the Bingo cards. The operations in this lesson are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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23 Course 2: 6-4
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Videocasts

26 Solving Equations BrainPOP
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27 Solving Inequalities BrainPOP
Short cartoon clip and selected response quiz supporting the objective.

Unit 5

Activities

1 Peas in a Pod
Students will determine if there is a relationship between the length of a pea pod and the number of peas it contains.
2 Telephone Charges
In this two-part example, users can drag a slider on an interactive graph to modify a rate of change (cost per minute for phone use) and learn how modifications in that rate affect the linear graph displaying accumulation (the total cost of calls).

eTools

3 Function Machine
Solve input output tables using a function machine
4 Function Machine
This tool helps students to understand the function concept through the "machine" metaphor. The domain elements (input) are dragged into the machine, which then goes through some (unseen) process and spits out the range element corresponding to the input. The results are then displayed in tabular form.
5 Grapher
It is immensely valuable for a student to be able to study function behavior graphically. Among a great many graphing utilities now available to students, this one has some rather special features designed to help students at most any stage of their experience....
6 Graphit
An interactive site graphing one-step equations.
7 Graphit
This activity allows the user to plot ordered pairs and algebraic functions on the same coordinate plane. It combines the capabilities of Simple Plot and Graph Sketcher.
8 Number Cruncher
This activity allows the user to to explore linear functions by determining the rule that the number cruncher machine is following. Students can enter numbers and use the result to determine what the function is.
9 Scientific Graphing Calculator (Spreadsheet and Graphing Calculator)
This tool can be used to investigate rational functions.
10 Slope Finder (Function Flyer)
This activity allows the user to experiment with changing constants and coefficients in a function.
11 Write a rule Function Machine
This is a nice, Flash-based tool using tables to write function rules

Games

12 Stop That Creature! Function Rule
In this fun game, figure out the rule that runs the game to shut down the creature cloning machine.

Lesson Seeds

13 Learning About Rate of Change
A nice interactive lesson in which the cost per minute to make a phone call (the slope) can be adjusted and then the graph of the cost can be displayed. A slider helps connect points on the two graphs.

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