College Algebra Activities and Explorations
For in-class cooperative learning in groups, individual assignments, or homework.
URL: http://barzilai.org/alg    —     Maintained by Harel Barzilai
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Specially Featured Activities:

  • Save the Pups! (This "calculus activity" can equally be used in College Algebra: instead of setting f'(x) to zero,
    one can use College Algebra techniques for max/min of a quadratic: here is a solution)
    (Quadratic Functions: vertex form; completing the square)

  • Screening Mammography: Numeracy for Citizenship, and Introduction to Modeling
    Solutions file in html available for instructors (email barzilai [at sign] gmail [period] com)



    • Mastering Percents: A Quantitative Literacy Exploration
    and
    Full Solutions


    Other Activities and Explorations

  • Graph Your Story (Functions: Graphical)
  • A Week in the Life of Sue (Functions: Graphical)
  • Estimating the Mile Record   Modified from/inspired by example in Peter Taylor's Calculus      
         
  • [Guidelines and Solutions] (Preview of Calculus)(Functions)

  • The Candy Game: Introduction to word problems and modeling. (Word problems, modeling, and algebraic equations)
  • Cousin Phil: Linear Models for Financial Analysis. (Functions: Linear Modeling)
  • Phil Bates Solutions


    See also the much more extensive:
    Archive of Reform Calculus Resources
    archive maintained at barzilai.org
    [Under construction: Black Mathematicians]

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