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Intro to Confidence Intervals- Hershey's Kisses

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

Solving Rational Equations

  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  Spring Student