Category Archives: Math 10C

Desmos Water Line

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Desmos, which you may know as that awesome and free online graphing calculator, is now producing awesome and free lessons. They refer to their lessons as, “Hand-crafted classroom activities. Designed by teachers. Built with love by Desmos.” These activities are computer based, and provide the classroom teacher with all kinds of formative data about how the class is progressing through the lesson.

Water line has students create height vs. time graphs representing the height of water in various different shaped containers. Work your way through it. It’s kind of fun.

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Radical SNAP

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Over on my own blog, I described a card game I saw in a classroom recently. It is for students to practice converting from mixed radicals to entire radicals and vice versa. It is based on the card game SNAP.

Here’s the entire post.

I take no credit for this idea at all. I was in a classroom this morning, and the teacher had the students play a game of Radical SNAP. The students were totally engaged, and were enthusiastically converting between mixed and entire radicals. It’s pretty simple to set up.

Materials: You need one deck of cards with the 10, J, Q and K removed for each pair of students, and one giant square root symbol per pair of students. This one should do the trick: Giant Root

Pair off the students in your class. Each pair gets a deck of cards, and should remove the 10, J, Q and K. Shuffle the remaining cards, and deal them so that each person has half the deck, face down.

Mixed to Entire

The students flip over their top cards. The student on the left puts his in front of the radical, and the student on the right puts hers under the radical. The first student to correctly convert the mixed radical to an entire radical wins the round.

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Entire to Mixed

The students flip over their top cards, and put them both under the radical. The first student to correctly simplify the radical or to identify that it can’t be simplified wins the round.

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Linear Systems Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the linear systems unit. Mathematics 10C Systems of Linear Equations

Real Numbers Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the real numbers unit. Mathematics 10C Real Numbers

Relations and Functions Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the relations and functions unit. Mathematics 10C Relations and Functions

Polynomials Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the polynomials unit. Mathematics 10C Polynomials

Linear Relations Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the linear relations unit. Mathematics 10C Linear Relations

Slope Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the slope portion of the linear relations unit. Mathematics 10C Understanding Slope

Trigonometry Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the trigonometry unit. Mathematics 10C Trigonometry

Measurement Lesson Ideas

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A group of teachers from a local district got together and wrote unit plans for Math 10C using a UBD model. These unit plans contain lesson ideas and performance assessment tasks. As such, I am tagging them so that they will appear in “learning activities” category and also the “performance assessment” category. Where they fit other courses as well, I have also made them visible there.

This word document has all that for the measurement unit. Mathematics 10C Measurement