Girl Math

We love hyperdocs! We force a copy which will automatically save to the student's drive. Once finished then they can share with us! It is so easy to grade!  This activity involves a Desmos investigation that we found online. The link at the bottom of the page is the one that we edited because of time constraints. However, the one linked above is awesome! It goes through a couple of scenarios about sampling penguins. Then students move through sampling techniques with a coloring activity. They must change the background of each cell with the correct sampling technique.  The next section consists of data collection. Students must determine whether the data collection technique consists of a survey, an observational study, or an experiment.  Students then move to answer questions about margin of error and confidence intervals.  The last portion allows students to design their own study. This allows the kiddos to be creative while explaining their...

Looking at the released NC Math 3 questions, I saw a trig drag and drop question. Well, why not let the kiddos practice some drag & drop by writing sine and cosine equations? This is very easy to grade, and the students actually enjoy it!  This was made for my Honors Math 3 class. I pushed them much harder than I would have an on-level class. I went past the curriculum and did phase shift since I know that they will see it again in PC.  So, I forced a copy and sent it to my entire class. The best part, they just share it with me they are finished. I did have a little anxiety since I had so many unread emails in my inbox, but it really didn't take too long to grade. So crisis averted. (Haha)  If you want to try it out, here is the student & teacher edition:  SE Trig Drag & Drop TE Trig Drag & Drop  My colleague made one for on-level. I'm sure you will see that sooner than later!  ~RJ 

Finding an activity dealing with logistic functions was not an easy task. So what should we do? Create our own HyperDoc, of course! While we are not Game of Thrones watchers, it would seam almost everyone else is so we decided to do a little research and instead of the zombies for most of these types of activities, we went with White Walkers. If you have no idea about these, don't worry- apparently high school students have no clue either.  Students will need computer access to plot using Desmos, Google Docs, and Google Sheets- to upload an already created data set into Desmos. This activity begins with randomly selecting one student from the class using a random number generator. This student will infect one other student (randomly), those two students will infect one more each, so on and so forth.  Once the class data has been collected, the students go through the HyperDoc comparing exponential and logistic functions considering carrying capacity. There are several...

Because Math 3 now has drag & drop on the final exam, students need the practice. So, I created one using Google Slides. It went over really well!  While this only took the students about 40-45 minutes to complete, it took me about 2 days to create this activity. Oh well, at least it is cute! :) I used Google Drawings to create the scene and took a screenshot of the drawing to post as the background in Google Slides. This worked so that students could only move the answers.  I created this for an Honors class and one of the problems (#5 - the one pictured) really stumped the kiddos. I loved it! They kept thinking that x - 1 was not part of the common denominator...they didn't realize that they needed to simplify after subtracting. It really made them think!   When they were finished, they shared it with me! I really think that this helped the kids get more practice on drag & drop while working on adding and subtracting rational expressions!...

Have you ever created an activity- spent HOURS making it perfect- and completely messed it up in front of the students?  That's what happened to me with this Polynomials Zeros Drag and Drop. Oddly, it turned into one of the best days I've had with this class! Here's what went down day of the activity: I sent the students the wrong link.  Of course.  Instead of sharing the student version, I sent them the teacher version.  It was heartbreaking!  The sweet kiddos told me the answers were already on the slides.  I panicked (slightly) and tried to correct my mistake, but you can't unring a bell!  So we went with it.   Luckily, my students are used to showing all of their work, and they did.  It was actually pretty nice that they could check themselves as they worked.  And they worked.  I was truly amazed how much effort they put into this assignment.   The activity itself has students solving polynomial functi...

I love creating reviews that go deeper than a worksheet, and Breakouts are great at accomplishing this feat- plus they have the added bonus of critical thinking and collaboration.  This particular Breakout is digital, but also has some paper/pencil components to accompany it. I begin with this crossword puzzle to get the students looking into vocabulary words and phrases associated with exploring density curves.  They must also solve this word search in order to open a lock. Once students start exploring the Univariate Breakout website, they will find additional review items that lead them to clues to open locks on the Google Form.  Once all locks are open, they're done! If you're interested in trying this in your AP Statistics class, you'll need the following links (as well as the previous links): Website for students Teacher notes with answers and hints As always, I suggest you try completing this before you giv e it to the students! ~ssb

This opening-day activity was shared with me at a PD several years ago, the original (I think) version is located here - thanks to NCSSM for sharing! The stem of the activity is derived from the 2007 AP Statistics Exam Question 5. I did not really change the original format, but I like this activity for many reasons: It gets the students talking about graphs and numerical summaries from the beginning Students are able to jump in with simulations and collecting data We create our first dotplot as a class- they see that they already know a lot about this course We find and interpret a p-value... even though they don't know it yet! The class can see a computer created simulation and we get to compare it to ours My kiddos get used to working in a collaborate manor  Thanks for reading! ~ssb