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These differentiated real world applications will complete your polynomial operations and factoring quadratics units. Your Algebra 1 or 2 students will be invested in these realistic (and relevant) scenarios!
Real life applications are an essential part of any curriculum, but can often intimidate students. This activity offers scaffolding to support students as they learn to solve word problems and navigate the problem solving process.
These real world math application are perfect for group work and collaboration, but can also be used as a stand-alone formative assessment!
Topics Include:
– Adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials
– Factoring quadratic equations
– Vertical motion model
– Solving quadratics equations using the quadratic formula and completing the square
– Writing equations in standard form and vertex form
– Critical thinking questions and reasoning prompts
☆Answer key included☆
How is this real life application different from regular word problems?
Most word problems have one question that needs to be answered and little follow up or detail. My real world math activities stretch one idea or scenario into a meaningful performance task that can be used as a full assessment of student learning.
This application is more than interpreting the question and quickly getting to the answer. Your students will be challenged to think critically about each scenario and defend their solutions.
The best part? All of the topics are relevant and modernized (because kids don’t care about calculating CD sales or cell phone minutes anymore).
Ways to use these Algebra 1 & 2 word problems:
⭐Whole Group: These real world applications are perfect for guided notes and introducing the relationship between graphing and solving quadratic equations.
⭐Small Group: Your students can work together to complete this activity and have discussions about different strategies for writing expressions from diagrams.
⭐ Individual: I have used these activities as formative assessments for my Algebra 1 students.
Bonus Resource:
Finding Zeros of Quadratic Functions Guided Notes
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