Girl Math

It's always fun when you can bring robots into your math class, and I was able to do this recently! The gist: students were given a large sheet of paper with a coordinate plane. They were tasked with creating a city and having the Ozobot travel around their city completing commands based on student code. The path of the Ozobot was a piecewise function and students created equations based on the functions. All this was completed in pairs or groups of three. I was short on time because the Ozobots were only available for one class period, so students did not have enough time to come with a written storyline, but each group was able to verbally explain the path of their robot. One group actually chose to use "Stranger Things", Hawkins, as their city- and even explained that they knew the function wasn't one-to-one! This project is a fantastic way to get students engaged, it has a little something for everyone. All students were 100% engaged for the duration of the class ...

I know that I was not the creator of this activity, and I have no idea who is... but it was a great way to introduce confidence intervals for proportions. In the past, I have used the thumbtack opener, but SAM's club was calling my name for a ginormous bag of Kisses! This activity encompasses all of the introductory notes for this lesson; therefore I just jumped right in and skipped the note-taking. We collect a large sample of trials, check conditions, use prior knowledge of sampling distributions, discuss population vs. sample and parameter vs. statistic, etc.  The new stuff is also embedded into this activity. Students are introduced to the phrases: margin of error, point estimate, and confidence interval (duh). The gist: students are given 5 Kisses, a cup and the student sheet (see below). They are to shake the cup and drop the Kisses on their desk, count how many land flat on the base and repeat for a total of 10 drops and 50 combined Kisses. We create an interval for each stu...

  I was feeling festive last October, so I created a Halloween theme solving rational equations Google Slides activity. I love Halloween, so creating a spooky assignment was so much fun! In this assignment, students must solve 8 rational equations. Each question corresponds with an answer on the last slide. Students will move the spider next to the answer to the corresponding question number. Once the students are finished, the phrase will spell out HAUNTED! I know that students could probably figure out the phrase; however, I created a student worksheet where students must show all work in order to receive credit. Fast forward to this semester, I wanted to use the same activity, but I obviously can't use Halloween. You know what that means, I just had to create a spring theme activity! In the spring activity, students must move the flowers to spell out RAINBOW.  Halloween Student Edition  Halloween Student Worksheet Halloween Teacher Edition Spring Student Edition  ...

Opening Day Activity for AP Statistics: Hiring Discrimination I have tried many different opening day activities for this course: Smelling Parkinson's, Distracted Driving, Crazy in Love, Find Someone, Desmos Scavenger Hunt, etc. But I wanted something new... so off to Google I went. I found that Sarah Carter ( mathequalslove ) does this activity for her Day 1 AP Stats class. And since she's awesome, I figured I'd try it too!  It is an activity that can be found in The Practice of Statistics , which IMHO, is a fantastic textbook. I like that it did not need to be modified very much in order to fit as course opener. I did tweak this a little, however. I wanted to make sure to start from the beginning of the class with the State/Plan/Do/Conclude format. I also like the fact that I will be able to bring this up later in the class for some sort of inference procedure (not there yet). I love giving students back work they completed on Day 1 and watching them realize how much they...