In the style of Sam Shah’s virtual filing cabinet I have created my own collection of resources from around the web.
Visit the shared spreadsheet to see these and more activities.
Graphing
Fawn Nguyen’s Vroom Vroom lesson for scatter plots.
Desmos.com – Function Carnival
Linear relations
Nat Banting’s vine Animations for linear patterning
Stacking Paper [3act task] – Kyle Pearce
Analytic Geometry
Time to set the hooks Barbie zip line for distance formula.
Ratios
The Mullet Ratio by Matt Vaundrey
The Fast Clapper by Nathan Kraft (3-Act Task)
Would you like fries with that 101qs.com (3-Act Task)
Nana’s Chocolate Milk Nana’s Paint Mix-up Nana’s Lemonade — Dan Meyer — Equivalent ratios
Bird Crap
Water balloon Mishap
Sugar Packets
Finals Week
Dueling Discounts – Percent
Measurement
Pop box design – from @mrpicc112
Corner to Corner – Pythagorean Theorem by me – Keynote Link
Filing Cabinet – A. Stadel
You Pour, I Choose (Cylinder) – Dan Meyer
Trashketball (Sphere) – A. Stadel
Exponentials
Super Mario – Regression/Sliders [3-act] Keynote Link from Me
Logarithms
Kate Nowak’s – Game of War
Earthquake Duel – Keynote Link – by me
Polynomials
Guess Who Game – great for characteristics of ________ – Jon Orr
Volume of a Box
Activities
Star Chain Activity from Math Tales From The Spring.
Variety of Things
Slackmath.com has embedded QR codes in worksheets – Students can get instant feedback.
Estimation180 for estimating – great for warm ups or introduction to topics!
Would You Rather – great style of questioning…..i use for warm up activities.
Games.
Race car math – Andrew stadel
Grudge by Nathan Kraft
Solve Crumple Toss from Kate Nowak
Risk – Game – from Coefficients of Determination
Dan Meyer’s The Comprehensive Math Assessment Resource – Standards Based Grading
Hi,
I might not be the smartest cookie in the bunch, but sure hope you can help me.
How do teachers use your three act problems? I have read and tried but mine seem to go nowhere. I am an algebra 1 teacher in Florida.
Thank you for your help,
It’s definitely a certain learning curve for you and the kids. Check out this link from Dan Meyer. http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2011/the-three-acts-of-a-mathematical-story/