Get your students into the Thanksgiving spirit with this real world graphing systems of inequalities activity! Students will create and graph linear inequalities, find the feasible region, and defend their decisions using mathematical evidence.
This Algebra 1 Thanksgiving activity includes:
🦃 2 pages of student material
🦃 Critical thinking and reflection questions
🦃 Writing and graphing systems of linear inequalities
🦃 Identifying and interpreting constraints
🦃 Full answer keys
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.
What is the real world scenario?
Thanksgiving is approaching, and the local community center is organizing a Thanksgiving food drive to help families who may not have enough food for the holiday. Local businesses, schools, and community members have donated a limited number of canned goods. The organizers need to decide how to distribute the donations between families and individuals while making sure the distribution is fair.
How is this real life application different than 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).
How I have used this real world math application:
⭐Whole Group: This real world math activity is perfect for modeling where to find conic sections in real life.
⭐Small Group: Your students can work together to complete this activity and have discussions about the different equations of conic sections.
⭐ Individual: You can use this activity as a formative assessment for your Algebra 2 or Precalculus students. It will usually take them about one class period to complete on their own.
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