"Why do I need to know this?" The Make It Real Activity Library I, comprising 11 distinct workbooks, sets out to answer this question. Each workbook contains activities or problem situations taken from real-life, with real data. Some examples of the situations are: cell phone plans, autism, population growth, cooking, borrowing money, credit cards, life spans, music downloads, etc. etc.
As students work through the problems, they can use the math skills and concepts they have learned in their math curriculum (such as the concept of average or graphing), and apply those to a situation from real-life. In addition, each activity-lesson in the book contains several questions about the situation, starting with basics and going into more in-depth evaluations, and should be adequate for one-two complete class periods. Arithmetic I
Fractions, Percents, Decimals I
Fractions, Percents, Decimals II
Sets, Probability, and Statistics I
Linear Functions I
Linear Functions II
Quadratic Functions I
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions I
Periodic and Piecewise Functions I
Polynomial, Power, Logistic, and Rational Functions I
Calculus I
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