Evaluating Polynomial Functions - Multiple - Choice St.Valentine's Day Mulitple-Choice Activity

This is a multiple-choice fun St. Valentine’s Day activity on evaluating polynomial functions. On each page/slide students are given one polynomial to evaluate for a given value of x. Students are asked to use substitution or synthetic division or both methods. There is given a picture of heart and faces of a girl and a boy inside the heart, students also have four answer choices and love words corresponding to each answer choice. Students have to use their answer to find what love words has the boy said to the girl on St. Valentine’s Day. The pages/slides with problems are eight. Students can draw a shape of a heart to mark their answer choice in each slide. The polynomials included are of 3th, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th degree, the number of terms are from 4 to 6.

This activity can be completed individually or students can work in pairs (partner A will evaluate the polynomial using substitution and partner B will evaluate the same polynomial using synthetic division, then partners compare their answers and choose the correct answer choice; on the next page/slide partner A will use synthetic division and partner B will use substitution to solve the problem. Thus partners will practice both methods and will enjoy this activity together. I think this activity can be used in all days of school year.

The answer key is given at the end of this document.

NOTE: This product is created as a Google Slides product. I have converted it to PDF item here. I have included 2 PDF files - the one has each slide as a page and the other has two or three slides on a page for easy and more economic printing!