Floating Down the River
Key Words:
Graphing Stories, Functions, Rates, Relationships
Brief Description:
Three people are floating in tubes down a river. They hypothesize that the speed is faster when the water is shallow and slower when the water is deeper. They measure the depth, speed and distance every 10 mins. Students are asked if they agree or disagree with the hypothesis. | Task Handout
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Regina’s Logo
Key Words:
Patterns, Recursive Formula, Linear Functions, Equivalent Expressions
Brief Description:
Students will analyze a pattern and write a recursive formula and a function to describe the pattern. | Task Handout
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Pay It Forward
Key Words:
Patterns, Exponential Function
Brief Description:
Students will analyze a pattern in which each person pays it forward to three people. They will write a function to describe the pattern. | Task Handout
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Squares Upon Squares
Key Words:
Patterns, Recursive Formula, Functions, Equivalent Expressions
Brief Description:
Students will analyze a pattern and write a recursive formula and a function to describe the pattern.
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Lots of Linear Options
Key Words:
Systems of Linear Equations
Brief Description:
Students are to create linear systems without graphing given certain parameters (i.e. just the point of intersection). | Task Handout
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Test Data Dilemma
Key Words:
Comparing Datasets, Graphs, Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, Argumentation
Brief Description:
Students are asked to compare graphs of class grades to determine which teacher should receive an award. There are multiple types of graphs (i.e. histogram, boxplot etc.) | Task Handout
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Creating Images
Key Words:
Transformation, Reflection, Rotation, Translation, Inverse, Composition
Brief Description:
Students are introduced to 4 transformations and asked a series of questions that delve into composition of transformations.
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Warm Up Task
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Rigid Transformations
Key Words:
Transformation, Reflection, Rotation, Translation, Rigid Motion
Brief Description:
Students will show that two triangles are congruent by using transformations. | Task Handout
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Perfecting My Quads
Key Words:
Solving Quadratic Functions, Factoring, Quadratic Formula, Completing the Square, Vertex Form, Graphing
Brief Description: Students are asked to solve a quadratic by using different methods. | Task Handout
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Water Tower Task
Key Words:
Linear Regression, Rate of Change, Constant Rate of Change
Brief Description:
Students have data on the flow rate of a water tower leak. They are asked questions about when the leak can be fixed and how long the tower has been leaking.
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Triangle Relationships Task
Key Words:
Right Triangle, Altitude, Distance Formula
Brief Description:
Students are asked to find the length of the altitude of a right triangle situated in the coordinate plane. | Task Handout
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Lucky Dip Task
Key Words:
Conditional Probability, Independent Events, Dependent Events
Brief Description:
A bag contains 3 black and 3 white balls. Winning is defined as drawing two balls of the same color. Students are asked to determine if the game is fair. | Task Handout
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Teachers discussing learning goals for this task
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Tracking the Tortoise Task
Key Words:
Inverse, Exponential Functions, Logarithmic Functions, Domain, Range
Brief Description:
Students explore an exponential function, its inverse, and the relationship between the two within the context of how far the tortoise is from the starting line of the race.
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Cockroaches Task
Key Words:
Modeling Exponential Growth, Inverse, Exponential Functions, Logarithmic Functions
Brief Description:
Students will use exponential growth to model cockroach population growth. They will also need to then use that information to figure out how long it will take for the population to cover a specific area (i.e. North Carolina). | Task Handout
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Go the Distance Task
Key Words:
Pattern, Representation, Rules, Recursive Formula, Equivalent Expressions
Brief Description:
Students need to determine how many bricks a stonemason will require to build the steps to the Philadelphia Art Museum (Rocky Steps).
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Zip Line Task
Key Words:
Geometric Formula, Optimization, Minimization, Pythagorean Theorem
Brief Description:
Students need to determine the minimum length of zip line wire required to satisfy the requirements for building the two zip lines from two towers to floating platform in a swamp.
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Teachers discussing implementation of the zip line task
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Mutually Tangent Circles
Key Words:
Circles, Tangent, Sectors, Triangles
Brief Description:
Students are asked to find the area of three mutually tangent circles including the area between the three circles.
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The Gift Task
Key Words:
Rational Functions, Multiple Representations, Domain, Range, Graphing, Asymptotes
Brief Description:
A gift costs $360 and several people split the cost of the gift. Students are asked to create a function that models each person’s individual contribution. After which, students are asked to consider the end behavior of rational functions.
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Foxes and Rabbits Desmos Task
Key Words:
Sine, Cosine, Transformations, Periodic Functions, Multiple Representations
Brief Description:
Students are given data, asked how to model that data on a graph, and then asked to fit a function to the graphical representation of the data using sliders.
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