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Systems of Inequalities: A Desmos Activity

This is one of those activities that had all students engaged from the moment they logged in! 

 Students begin by practicing graphing systems of inequalities and finding points that exist in the feasible region. Then students are asked to create a system with a specific point in the solution. They had fun playing around in Desmos and the ease of use within in website where they could clearly see the effects of changing values in their inequalities to fit the guidelines and expectations of the exercises.

 Once the students were familiar with graphing systems of inequalities and finding solutions, we moved on to finding objects in a photo, this is point where the kiddos had the most fun. First, they graphed inequalities to see which object was isolated in two different photos. Then, they had to find Waldo and isolate him using a system of two inequalities. Finally, they were given a map of the US and asked to isolate North Carolina using three inequalities.

 I teach onlevel Math 3, but this activity could very easily be adjusted to make it more challenging for honors students by giving more guidelines (such as: no horizontal or vertical lines- which my kiddos definitely used).

 Overall, this was a fantastic activity! Feel free to use this with your students!

Desmos Activity!

 ~ssb and rj


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  1. UnknownDecember 13, 2021 at 8:10 AM

    I love this idea! Is the Desmos activity still active? It looks like the link no longer works.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 15, 2022 at 9:43 AM

    Desmos says, "Activity not found." Could you please share the link? I would love to use this!

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    1. girlmathx2March 15, 2022 at 5:29 AM

      I think we fixed the issue! The link should work now. If not, please let us know.

      Delete

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