Pi Day - A selection of ideas and resources for competitions of March 14 (Pi Day)

This calculus lesson introducing integration with the power rule A lesson practising introducing integration as a reverse of differentiation. PowerPoint encourages students to devise the general rule for powers 36 questions of increasing difficulty Simplification of rational expressions required in later questions. Worked solutions are included Black and white and color versions included LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Treasure hunt for adding and subtracting decimals (10 of each) Instructions Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Fun activity to get students moving around the classroom while simplifying surds Instructions Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

No Prep Lesson for solving quadratic equations in quadratic form (disguised quadratics) Power Point with two teacher examples and two for students to try. 28 quadratic equations of increasing difficulty, divided into 4 exercises Worked solutions included LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Use this scavenger hunt to revise or reinforce understanding of finding the area of a circle. Equal number of questions where the radius or diameter is given. Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

No prep lesson for factoring trinomials (quadratic expression) where a > 1. Power Point with accompanying warm up activity for expanding two parentheses and then two sets of Teacher and Student examples Worksheet with partly factored expressions, followed by factoring trinomials and finally applying knowledge with some problem solving, Worked solutions are included LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Scavenger Hunt: Find the circumference of a circle given either the diameter or radius. All answers given to 1 decimal place Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Adding and Subtracting Negative Numbers Treasure Hunt Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Factorising quadratic expressions (coefficient is not 1) scavenger hunt Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Solve each of the quadratic equations using the quadratic formula, giving answers to two decimal places. Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Solving quadratic inequalities by factoring and sketching their graphs PowerPoint with teacher and student examples (2 of each) Worksheet with increasing difficulty Worked solutions included QR Code for link to a video LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

No Prep lesson for differentiating composite functions using the chain rule. Activity to Expand, Differentiate and Factor to see the pattern of how the chain rule works PowerPoint with examples for teachers and students to practice. Worksheet using the chain rule for functions, followed by application to find tangents, normals and stationary points. Worked solutions included. LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Use this Treasure / Scavenger Hunt to practice the chain rule by differentiating, trigonometric functions, logarithms and exponentials. Instructions Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence

Converting fractions to percentages. Varied degrees of difficulties involving denominators 4, 8, 10, 20, 25, 40, 100, 200, 400 Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Percentages Treasure Hunt - Finding percentages of an amount. These involve more complex percentages such as 16%, 23%, 29% Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Percentages Scavenger Hunt - Finding percentages of an amount. These involve percentages that are multiples of 5, mainly 5%, 10%, 20%, 25% etc Instructions • Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room • Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. • A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question • Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions • There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Negative indices no prep lesson Power point with examples worksheet with worked solutions

Use this Treasure Hunt after introducing the reverse of differentiation. These are all definite integrals for powers of x. Some questions need to be rewritten in exponent form and others require some simple algebraic manipulation first. Instructions Print off the twenty question pages and put them up around the room Each question is in the middle of the page and the solution is at the top of another page. Answers are correct to two decimal places where appropriate A student begins on a given question, solves it and finds the answer on another sheet. The question on this sheet will be the next question they answer. Once they have answered all twenty, they will return to their starting question Depending on numbers, students can all start on different questions There is a student answer sheet included plus the correct sequence

Domain and Range of Functions no prep lesson PowerPoint introducing domain and range Worksheet with: Find the range of a function given the domain Find which values cannot be in a domain of a function Solutions are included LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they cannot be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.