Hello teachers friends! My name is Niki.I have been teaching mathematics for over 20 years. My subjects are Algebra through Calculus 3 along with Geometry, Trig and Differential Equations. My passion is to create engaging fun and rigorous math resources of high quality for teachers and students. My products include partner and group activities, matching and sorting activities, multiple-choice games, rigorous worksheets & lessons, challenging independent practice, homework assignments, etc.
Hello teachers friends! My name is Niki.I have been teaching mathematics for over 20 years. My subjects are Algebra through Calculus 3 along with Geometry, Trig and Differential Equations. My passion is to create engaging fun and rigorous math resources of high quality for teachers and students. My products include partner and group activities, matching and sorting activities, multiple-choice games, rigorous worksheets & lessons, challenging independent practice, homework assignments, etc.
These are three versions (three levels) independent practice on factoring polynomials by determining the greatest common factor. Versions A and B contain 15 problems each and version C has 10 more challenging examples.
The product can be used as an extra practice, enrichment or homework assignment. It can be also used as a group activity - competition between groups of 2 or 3 as the members of the group will chose who which version to solve.
The practice sheets give enough room for students to show work.
Answer keys are included.
This is an engaging “true or false” activity on solving two-step inequalities. On each slide students are given five pairs of inequalities A and B and buttons “true” and “false” corresponding to each pair of inequalities. Students solve inequality A which is a two-step inequality and state whether it is equivalent to the inequality B which is of type x>a, or x<a, x≦a or x≧a. Then students crossed out the incorrect button “true” or “false”. The slides with problems are three (a total of 15 inequalities). The last five inequalities are a bit more challenging, but can also be solved with two steps.
The answer key is contained at the end of this document.
NOTE: I created this product with Google Slides. I uploaded it here in PDF format as I have included 2 PDF files - the one has each slide as a page and the other has three slides on a page for easy and more economic printing!
This coloring activity provides students with 12 problems. Students will multiply binomials using the FOIL method. After solving a problem, the students find their answer in a table. This tells them what color to use in the coloring page. Students are asked to show work on a recording sheet provided.
Answer keys are included.
This is a multiple-choice activity on evaluating algebraic expressions. The slides with problems are eight as on each slide there is given one expression in two variables to be evaluated. Students are given four answer choices. The problem is written in a heart frame and there is else one smaller heart shape where the student has to record the chosen to be the correct answer. The expressions are polynomials in two variables, rational expressions and there is one complex fraction included.
This activity can be used as independent and extra practice, homework assignment. It can be also used as St.Valentine’s Day activity.
The answer key is contained at the end of this document.
NOTE: The product is created with Google Slides. I have uploaded it in PDF format here as 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!
This is an engaging guiding practice on combining like terms & distributive property. It is easy to follow, consisting of 4 parts, 10 worked out examples and 6 tasks for students to do. First part is presenting the term like terms as students fulfill two tasks. Second is presenting the operation combining like terms, students are shown how to perform this operation in four worked out examples and then they are given four problems to solve. Third is simplifying algebraic expressions using combining like terms. Here students have two examples to follow so to solve four problems. And the fourth part is the distributive property and combining like terms. Students learn that when they have an expression with parentheses like a(b+c) they first need to apply the distributive property and then to combine the like terms. It is demonstrated with 3 worked out examples. Finally students are given to simplify 7 algebraic expressions as the last two need to be evaluated for given values of the variables.
Answer keys are included.
This coloring activity provides students with 12 problems. Students will solve two-step equations. After solving a problem, the students find their answer in a table. This tells them what color to use in the coloring page. Students are asked to show work on a recording sheet provided.
Answer key is included.
This coloring activity provides students with 12 problems. Students will evaluate algebraic expressions of two variables for the given values of the variables. After solving a problem, the students find their answer in a table. This tells them what color to use in the coloring page. Students are asked to show work on a recording sheet provided.
Answer keys are included.
This is an engaging guiding practice on combining like terms & distributive property. It is easy to follow, consisting of 4 parts, 10 worked out examples and 6 tasks for students to do. First part is presenting the term like terms as students fulfill two tasks. Second is presenting the operation combining like terms, students are shown how to perform this operation in four worked out examples and then they are given four problems to solve. Third is simplifying algebraic expressions using combining like terms. Here students have two examples to follow so to solve four problems. And the fourth part is the distributive property and combining like terms. Students learn that when they have an expression with parentheses like a(b+c) they first need to apply the distributive property and then to combine the like terms. It is demonstrated with 3 worked out examples. Finally students are given to simplify 7 algebraic expressions as the last two need to be evaluated for given values of the variables.
Answer keys are included.
This coloring activity provides students with 12 problems. Students will solve proportions to find the value of the variable x. After solving a problem, the students find their answer in a table. This tells them what color to use in the coloring page. Students are asked to show work on a recording sheet provided.
Answer key is included.
This coloring activity provides students with 12 problems on percents (finding the whole, the part and percent). After solving a problem, the students find their answer in a table. This tells them what color to use in the coloring page. Students are asked to show work on a recording sheet provided.
Answer key is included.
This is a fun self-checking circuit activity on solving nonlinear systems of equations. There is provided space for students to show work on the pages.
Activity directions: Students begin with the problem #1, solve the problem, find the answer somewhere else on the pages ( which are three) and write “2” in the blank. Then student solve that problem (#2), search for the answer again and when find it write “3” in the next blank. Students continue in this manner until they return to the problem #1. They should solve all the problems before returning to the start point.
Answer keys are included.
This is a self-checking circuit activity on adding and subtracting rational expressions. There is provided space for students to show work on the pages.
Activity directions: Students begin with the problem #1, solve the problem, find the answer somewhere else on the pages ( which are three) and write “2” in the blank. Then student solve that problem (#2), search for the answer again and when find it write “3” in the next blank. Students continue in this manner until they return to the problem #1. They should solve all the 11 problems before returning to the start point.
Answer keys are included.
This is a self-checking circuit activity on dividing polynomials using long division (polynomials from 2nd to 7th degree are included). There is provided space for students to show work on the pages.
Activity directions: Students begin with the problem #1, solve the problem, find the answer somewhere else on the pages ( which are three) and write “2” in the blank. Then student solve that problem (#2), search for the answer again and when find it write “3” in the next blank. Students continue in this manner until they return to the problem #1. They should solve all the problems before returning to the start point.
Answer keys are included.
This is a vegetables themed maze on solving rational equations (equations with extraneous solutions included). Students start solving and use each answer to navigate through the maze. Students will need to solve 15 problems properly to complete the maze. Students can draw a line to display their answer path. It would be nice if students show work on this activity.
Answer keys are included.
NOTE: This product is created as a Google Slides product. I have converted it to PDF item here.
This is an engaging practice on multiplying binomials. There are 4 pages/slides/4 levels each containing 3 problems. Students have to find the indicated products. Students are provided with empty text boxes where they can record their solutions and answers. There is given a hint for each problem - it is the sum of the coefficients of the polynomial that students have obtained.
Answer keys are included.
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!
These are 12 challenging practice problems on limits at infinity. Functions included are only exponential, natural logarithms and inverse tangents.
The product can be used as independent practice, extra practice, enrichment and homework assignment.
The practice sheets have enough room for students to show work.
Answer keys are included.
This is the second part of my worksheets on Computing Limits. The resource contains total of 16 finite limits. Students will apply the properties of limits and evaluate limits algebraically by substitution, factoring and conjugate methods. The packet has 2 worksheets:
⟐ The first worksheet is solving 8 limits of functions involving radicals (square, cube and fourth roots).
⟐ The second worksheet is solving 8 limits involving functions containing both polynomials and trig expressions or radicals and trig expressions. These problems are more complicated and require using a combination of methods.
The worksheets can be used as extra practice, for enrichment, an assessment or homework. It can be also used as a partner activity – like that
⟡ Partner A will solve WS #1 while Partner B solves WS # 2, then they swap papers and Partner A will solve WS #2 while Partner B solves WS #1. Once they have completed the work, they compare their results. If there are different answers to one and the same problem, students have to identify and correct any errors.
⟡ Partner A will solve the first four problems of WS # 1 while Partner B solves the rest four problems of the same WS. Then they swap papers and Partner A will compute the last four limits of WS # 1, while Partner B solves the first four problems of WS # 1. Once they have completed the work, they compare their results. If there are different answers to one and the same problem, students have to identify and correct any errors. Partners continue working in the same way with WS # 2…
All answer keys are included.
This is an engaging and challenging practice on systems of linear equations in two variables. It consists of 8 various problems, 5 of them are multiple-choice questions and the other 3 are open- ended questions. You can see all the problems in the preview. Students are provided with empty boxes where to record their answers.
The product can be used as an independent and extra practice, as a quiz or as an assessment and as a homework assignment.
Answer key is included.
NOTE: This product is created as a Google Slides product. I have converted it to PDF item here.
This is an engaging practice on zero and negative exponents. Students are provided with 2 pages/slides with a total of 12 problems. On the first slide/page there are given 6 expressions. Students are asked to evaluate the expressions and type their answers in a table. On the second slide/page students have to simplify 6 expressions with variables and to write the results using only positive exponents. Students record their answers in another table.
The product can be used as an independent and extra practice, enrichment, homework assignment.
Answer keys are contained 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 slides on a page for easy and more economic printing!
This is a Christmas themed practice on applying exponent rules to simplify expressions. Students are given 2 problems(expressions A & B) per slide (the slides with problems are 5) and are asked to simplify each expression and then to evaluate it for the given values of the variables. The first problem A requires applying the power and product rules of exponents and the second problem B requires using the power, product and quotient rules of exponents. Both problems A and B require raising a product to a power (excluding example 1A). There is one example requiring raising a quotient to a power. Students are provided with empty boxes where to record their answers.
*There are included examples only with positive exponent indicators.
This product can be used as an independent practice, extra practice and homework for Christmas.
Answer key is contained 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!