Algebraic Problem Solving
A Collection of Visual Patterns Handouts
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(Apr 2022)
A Fair Price · url · pdf (Mar 2022)
A Simulation to Model Exponential Growth · pdf (Apr 2022)
A Very Odd Job · url · pdf (Apr 2022)
Accurately Weighing Pennies · url (Apr 2022)
Adaptation of Four Views of a Function (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2) · url (Aug 2023)
Adaptation of Function Machines (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2) · url (Aug 2023)
Adaptation of Growing Number Patterns (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2) · url (Aug 2023)
Adaptation of Repeating Number Patterns (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2) · url (Aug 2023)
Adaptation of the Chinese Zodiac problem (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2) · url (Aug 2023)
Adaptation of Visual Patterns – the catapult pattern (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2) · url (Aug 2023)
Adaptation of Visual Patterns – the arch problem (ABE/HSE, high level NRS 2) · url (Oct 2023)
Algebraic Thinking: Interlocking Circles (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Alleviate Math Fears with a Math Fair! · url · pdf (Apr 2022)
Bacteria population growth lesson plan · url (Apr 2022)
Bacterial Growth on Hands (video) · url (Apr 2022)
Balancing Act: Math & Science Connections · url (Apr 2022)
Balancing Chemical Equations: Math & Science Connections · url (Apr 2022)
Birds’ Eggs · pdf (Apr 2022)
Building Functions with Cubes · docx (Sep 2017)
Central Park (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Classifying Solutions to Systems of Equations · url · pdf (Apr 2022)
Clothesline Math · url · pdf (Oct 2024)
Connecting Exponential Population Growth and Biological Evolution · url (Apr 2022)
Contagious Diseases and Exponents · url (Apr 2022)
Containers (interpreting key features of graphs) · url · url2 (Apr 2022)
Counting More Antibodies · pdf · docx (Apr 2022)
Cover the Field · pdf (Apr 2022)
Dapper Cat: Exploring scatterplots on Desmos · url (Oct 2022)
Datelines: What’s an Acceptable Dating Range? · pdf (Apr 2022)
Desmos Exponential Bundle · url (Apr 2022)
Discovering Pi · docx (Apr 2022)
Elephants and Horses · url · url2 (Apr 2022)
Essential Practice Problems for HSE Students in Algebra · pdf · docx (Apr 2022)
Essential Practice Problems for HSE Students in Functions · pdf · docx (Apr 2022)
Explore Correlation in Scatterplots of Student Preferences · url (May 2024)
Exploring Algebraic Thinking in a Math Teachers’ Circle (webinar) · url (Apr 2022)
Exploring Linear Data · url (Apr 2022)
Fawn Nguyen’s Visual Patterns · url (Sep 2017)
Fishing Adventures (in mathematical inequalities) · url (Mar 2022)
Fixing the Furnace · url (Apr 2022)
Function Activities with the TI-30XS · pdf · docx (Mar 2022)
Function Situations · url (Mar 2022)
Function Table Challenge · url · pdf (Sep 2017)
GED Math Formula Sheet · pdf (Sep 2022)
Generalizing Patterns – Table Tiles · url (Aug 2017)
Graphing and Comparing Linear Equations (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Graphing Stories · url (Aug 2017)
Guess My Rule (game) · url · url2 (May 2024)
How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon? · url (Apr 2022)
How Many Hot Dogs Did They Eat? · url (Apr 2022)
How Much Does a 100×100 In-N-Out Cheeseburger Cost? · url (Apr 2022)
HSE Practice Test Questions based on the Taxi Cab Problem · pdf · docx (Apr 2022)
HSE-Style Problem Assessment Packet, Aligned to Units 1-4 · pdf · docx (Jul 2022)
Inequalities on the Number Line (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Interactive Connections: Number Lines and the Coordinate Grid · url (Oct 2024)
Interactive Open Middle Activities for virtual learning (GEOGEBRA) · url (Aug 2022)
Lake Algae · docx (Apr 2022)
Line of Best Fit · url (Aug 2017)
Linear Bundle (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Magic Triangle · pdf (Jan 2024)
Marbleslides (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Match My Parabola (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Math – Test Practice Questions (from the Fast Track GRASP Math Packets) · url · pdf (Apr 2024)
Math and the Pandemic Lesson Materials · url (Apr 2022)
Math Monday Handouts · url (Jul 2022)
Math Resources for Spanish HSE (Aug 2023)
Mathematical Modeling: Hot and Cold · url · pdf (Apr 2022)
MathMemos: Zip Zap Zowie · url (Apr 2022)
Maxine’s Rule – Graphing Inequalities · pdf (Feb 2022)
Modeling Population Growth: Having Kittens · url (Apr 2022)
More on Teaching the Noah’s Ark problem · url (Apr 2022)
Mouse Population Graphs · docx (Apr 2022)
Name that Rule · pdf (Apr 2022)
Nana’s Paint · url · url2 (Apr 2022)
Online Algebra Balance Scales · url (Apr 2022)
Online Function Machine (from Math Playground) · url (Apr 2022)
Online Function Machine (from the National Library of Visual Manipulatives) · url (Sep 2017)
Organ Function Grinder (video) · url (Apr 2022)
Partial Product Finder · url (Apr 2022)
Pattern and Function Unit (youcubed.org) · pdf (Apr 2022)
Penny Circle · url (Apr 2022)
Phone Plans (EMPower Math) · url · pdf (May 2024)
Pick a Point · docx (Nov 2017)
Point, Point, Slope · url (Jun 2024)
Points on a Plane · url · pdf · docx (Nov 2017)
Polygraph: Parabolas · url (Mar 2022)
Pomegraphit! (DESMOS activity) · url · url2 · pdf (May 2022)
Practicing Order of Operations with the Four Fours Problem · url · pdf (Oct 2022)
Product Game and the Factor Game · pdf (Apr 2022)
Push and Support Questions for the Commission Problem · url (Nov 2017)
Representing the Laws of Arithmetic · url · pdf (Aug 2017)
Restaurant Management Math: Menu Pricing with Benchmark Percentages · pdf (Apr 2022)
Rice and the Chessboard · url (Apr 2022)
Secret Codes and the Power of Algebra · pdf (Apr 2022)
Seeing Dots (Using the structure of an expression) · url (Apr 2022)
Solve Me Mobiles · url (Apr 2022)
Solve Me Mobiles – Solving equations was never this much fun. · url (Apr 2022)
Solving Linear Equations with One Variable · url · pdf (Apr 2022)
Spanish versions of several HSE Math Framework handouts (Apr 2022)
SPLAT! · url · url2 (Sep 2022)
Stacking Cups – Andrew Stadel version · url (Apr 2022)
Stacking Cups – Dan Meyer version · url (Apr 2022)
Staircases and Steepness (Slope) · url · url2 · pdf · docx (Jan 2023)
Sums of Consecutive Numbers · url · url2 · docx (Apr 2022)
Super Tic-Tac-Toe and Coordinate Graphing · pdf (Mar 2018)
Supply and Demand Graph · pdf (Apr 2022)
Systems of Equations – Using Student Algorithms to Bridge to Algebraic Thinking · url (Apr 2022)
Teaching the Framework 2 · url · url2 (Nov 2017)
Teaching the Framework 3 · url · url2 (Apr 2022)
Teaching the Framework 4 · url · url2 (Mar 2022)
The Algebra of Patterns · pdf (Apr 2022)
The Border Problem (on the meaning and use of variables) · url · url2 · pdf (Mar 2024)
The Cup is the y-intercept · url (Apr 2022)
The Paycheck Problem · url (Apr 2022)
The Paycheck Problem (online) · url · pdf (Apr 2022)
The Power of Exponents, Part 1 · url · pdf (Feb 2024)
The Power of Exponents, Part 2 · url · pdf (Nov 2023)
The Pyramid Scheme Problem · url · pdf (Jun 2022)
Tools of Algebra: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities, Part 1 · url · pdf (Feb 2024)
Tools of Algebra: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities, Part 2 · url · pdf (Mar 2024)
Tools of Algebra: Linear Functions, Part 1 · url · pdf (Nov 2023)
Tools of Algebra: Linear Functions, Part 2 · url · pdf (Apr 2024)
Tools of Algebra: Nonlinear Functions, Part 1 · url · pdf (Feb 2024)
Tools of Algebra: Nonlinear Functions, Part 2 · url · pdf (Apr 2022)
Towering Numbers · pdf · docx (Sep 2017)
Turtle Crossing (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Turtle Time Trials (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Twin Puzzles · url (May 2022)
Uncovering Coherence Using Area Models (webinar) · url (Apr 2022)
Unit 1: Introducing Functions · url (Apr 2022)
Unit 2: Three Views of a Function (Rule, Table, Graph) · url (Mar 2022)
Unit 3: Rate of Change and Starting Amount · url (Mar 2022)
Unit 4: Using Systems of Equations to Make and Justify Choices · url (Apr 2022)
Unit 5: Nonlinear Functions · url (Oct 2017)
Unit 6: Exponential Growth · url (Apr 2022)
Unit 7: Mathematical Equality · url (Apr 2022)
Unit 8: Developing Algebraic Reasoning through Visual Patterns · url (Apr 2022)
Unit 9: Using Area Models to Understand Polynomials · url (Oct 2017)
Virtual Algebra Tiles (National Library of Virtual Manipulatives) · url (Apr 2022)
Virtual Tools for Learning Addition & Subtraction with Integers/Signed Numbers · url · url2 (Oct 2024)
Visual Patterns: Using Structure to Rewrite Expressions · url (Apr 2022)
What Comes Next? (game) · url (Apr 2022)
What Every Teacher Should Know About GED Math · url · pdf (Apr 2024)
When will the phone be fully charged? · url (Sep 2017)
Will it hit the hoop? (DESMOS activity) · url (May 2022)
Write a function defined by an expression in different but equivalent forms… · url (Apr 2022)
Writing About Math – Solving Equations · url (Apr 2022)
Yohaku Number Puzzles · url (Apr 2022)
YouCubed.org’s Week of Inspirational Maths (1 & 2) · url (Apr 2018)