The 6th grade students had just finished working on rates and ratios and a lot of fraction work, and had taken an image and increased it by a scale of 3. I was to teach them the next lesson that brought about the idea of different scale factors, and the relationship between the area and […]
This applet would be great for helping students understand the way related rates change. Students can also change the light source location to learn about how different locations change the way the shadows move. This applet is a great way for students who are first being introduced to polar coordinates to see the way the function is […]
http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/Documents/VampiresWS.pdf is a cute PDF to give students that outlines the uses of excel for students to explore an exponential growth relationship. The assignment helps students to walk through each step in identifying the relationship, working on their communication by asking students to describe what is happening to the numbers in each step, which helps […]