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.
This is an engaging and fun multiple-choice game on operations with complex numbers (adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, raising i to a power). On each page/slide students are given two similar problems. The problems are labeled with large Latin letters written on the pictures of teddy bears. There are four optional answers for each problem labeled with the small Latin letters a,b,c and d written on the pictures of heart shaped balloons. Students solve a problem, select an answer choice and draw the balloon with the chosen answer to the teddy bear (match each problem with its answer).
This activity can be completed individually or students can work in pairs (partner activity).
It can be used as St. Valentine’s Day activity as well.
The answer key is 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 slides on a page for easy and more economic printing!
This is a rainy kids themed practice or partner activity on operations with complex numbers. The problem pages/slides are five, as on each page/slide there are given nine complex numbers from z1 to z9. On page/slide 1 students have to find 10 wanted sums which are like z1+z5; z4+z9; z1+z2+z3;…, on page/slide 2 students calculate wanted differences which are like z8-z3; z2-z3-z6;…on page/slide 3 students are asked to compute 10 products, on page/slide 4 students have to find 10 quotients. On page/slide 5 students perform the indicated operations which are mixed operations like z8+z1/z2; z4z8-z7;…etc. There is provided a table with empty boxes on each page/slide where students can type their answers.
As the problems are many (50) this practice can be used as partner activity (even group activity) or like independent practice along with homework (students can solve some of the problems in class and the rest problems can be done as homework).
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!
This product is designed for practice after teaching a lesson on introduction to complex numbers. It contains a total of 51 challenging examples as the problems are grouped by the following topics:
identifying the real and imaginary parts of a complex numbers (9 examples)
identifying the conjugate (9 examples)
simplifying expressions involving i^n where n is a whole number (15 examples)
simplifying expressions involving radicals with negative radicands
(6 examples)
factoring quadratic binomials ax^2 + b, where a and b are whole numbers
(6 examples)
solving quadratic equations ax^2 + b= 0, where a and b are whole numbers
(6 examples)
I have also included a homework assignment containing 18 examples.
The product can be used as a classwork, independent practice, and for practice after teaching a lesson on introduction to complex numbers, homework assignment and assessment.
Practice sheets give room for students to show work.
All answer keys are included.
With this fun and engaging answer pass activity, students will practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers (includes rationalizing the denominator by multiplying by the conjugate). Students use each previous answer to find the next answer when working on the problems in a practice sheet.
There are five practice sheets each containing 10 challenging problems. Practice sheet A is adding complex numbers, Practice sheet B is subtracting, Practice sheet C is multiplying, Practice sheet D is dividing complex numbers and Practice sheet E is performing operations with complex numbers and simplifying complex number expressions.
The activity can be used individually or in groups.
Answer keys are included.
This is a fun and challenging matching game called “Put my Hat on my Head”. It consists of 20 problems in which students practice simplifying expressions with complex numbers. The problems require adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. Seven of the problems require rationalizing the denominator. Nine of the problems require knowledge of powers of imaginary numbers. None of the problems require simplifying radicals.
( The problems are a bit more complicated than ordinary examples! )
Activity Directions: Students are asked to write each of 20 given expressions as a complex number in standard form. They are also given two pictures – one with men heads labeled with the letters of the problems and one with hats on which are written the answers. Students cut out the hats to “put” each hat “on the head” of the man it belongs to (match answers with problems).
This activity can be completed individually or in pairs.
Answer keys are included.
I hope you and your students enjoy!
This is a classwork or practice on operations with complex numbers containing a total of 46 challenging examples. The problems are grouped by the following topics:
adding complex numbers (12 examples)
subtracting complex numbers (12 examples)
multiplying complex numbers (12 examples)
dividing complex numbers (10 problems)
I have also included an engaging homework assignment containing 18 problems.
The product can be used as a classwork, independent practice, practice after teaching a lesson on operations with complex numbers, homework assignment and an assessment.
Practice sheets give room for students to show work.
All answer keys are included.
This is a student friendly themed matching activity on polynomial and rational inequalities. There are 4 slides/pages each containing 5 “similar” problems (zeros of the binomials and/or trinomials involved in the inequalities are the same) but having totally different solutions. The fifth/page slide is a table where solutions of all the inequalities are given in shuffled order. Students have to record in this table the number of the corresponding problem next to its answer (to match the problem with its answer).
This activity can be completed individually or students can work in groups.
Answer key is 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!
This is a challenging lady bug themed practice on operations with fractions and mixed numbers. On slide/page 1 students are given 6 expressions with fractions to evaluate, on slide/page 2 students evaluate 5 expressions with fractions and mixed numbers. The answers are given in a table along with false answers. Students match each problem with its answer recording the letter of each problem in the corresponding empty box. On slide/page 3 students have 6 equations to solve for the variable x. Students record their answers in empty boxes provided.
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!
This is an engaging scarecrow funny themed activity on operations on functions. Students are given 5 slides/pages to work on. Each slide/page contains 9 functions given in a table. Students type their answers in another table where are given 8 problems. 1 slide/page is adding functions, 2 slide/page is subtracting functions, 3 slide/page - multiplying functions, 4 slide/page - dividing functions and 5 slide/page are mixed operations. Functions included are linear, quadratic, cubic, rational, radical and exponential. (Students need to know how to perform operations with polynomials and rational expressions, rationalizing the denominator, dividing exponents, difference of squares formula, adding radicals to handle with the given problems).
This activity can be completed individually or students can work in pairs/groups.
Answer key is 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!
Students will practice solving multi-step inequalities with this duck engaging activity. The problem slides/pages are three as on each slide/page students are given six inequalities. On slide/page 1 students have to determine which of them are equivalent, on slide/page 2 students find which inequalities have no solution and on slide/page 3 students search for inequalities having all real numbers solutions. There is included one slide/page where students can record their answers and the last slide/page is answer key slide/page.
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!
This is a students friendly themed practice/review on logarithms and operations with logarithms. Students 1. evaluate logarithmic expressions (on slide/page 1) 2. check the correctness of given logarithmic equalities (on slide/page 2) 3. expand logarithmic expressions (on slide/page 3) 4. condense logarithmic expressions (on slide/page 4) and 5. determine which statements/logarithmic inequalities are true/false. Students are given a table where to record their answers.
Students can work independenlty, in pairs or in groups of three.
Answer key is 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!
This is an owls themed engaging practice on factoring trinomials. On slide/page first student are given four quadratic trinomials to factor (three are with a=1 and one is with a ≠1) and four rational fractions to simplify. The given trinomials are involved in these fractions. On slide/page 2 students have to find which of given eight quadratic trinomials have a common factor. On slide/page 3 students have to determine which of ten given trinomials can not be factored. The fourth slide/page is extra slide, there are given eight bi quadratic trinomials to be factored. Students can record on the slides/pages their answers and draw ovals around the chosen answers. Students can work independently or in pairs.
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!
This is an eskimo girl themed practice/review on exponent rules (bases and exponents are natural numbers). Students are given 5 slides/pages to work on. 1 slide/page is writing expressions as a single power (12 problems), 2 slide/page is finding the unknown x (12 problems), 3 slide/page is evaluating expressions (12 problems), 4 slide/page is proving that an expression can be divided by a given number(6 problems) and 5 slide/page is simplifying an expression and evaluating the expression for the given values of the variables (5 problems). There is included one page where students can record their answers in a table.
Students can work independently or in pairs.
Answer key is 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!
Students will convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals with this duck themed fun practice. Each slide/page contains 15 problems. On the first and second slides/pages students are given decimals to convert them to fractions and on the third and fourth slide/pages students have to convert the fractions given to decimals. There are empty boxes provided for students to record their answers on the sheets.
They can work independently or in pairs.
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!
This is a Christmas lama themed multiple-choice activity on evaluating algebraic expressions involving exponents and operations with rational numbers. The problems slides/pages are four as on each slide/page there are given two numbers/numerical expressions u and v and two algebraic expressions A and B in the two variables u and v. Students calculate u and v and then substitute their values in the expressions A and B to evaluate them. There are given four optional answer choices for A and B. Students use the answers that they have obtained to find out the answers of the questions 1) why does lama love Christmas 2) what is lama doing most at Christmas 3) what is the lama favorite Christmas song and 4) what present does lama want for Christmas.
A slide/page where students can record their answers is included.
An answer key is included.
The resource can be used as an extra Christmas practice.
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!
This is star wars themed activity on finding x – and y – intercepts of linear functions. It takes students through 10 problems of the following types – the linear functions is given in
slope – intercept form (3 examples)
standard form (4 examples)
(x/a) + (y/b) = 1 form (3 examples)
The activity can be possibly used as station or task cards. Student recording sheet is provided. Answer keys are included.
I hope your students will love seeing these great characters on the activity sheet.
This is an engaging and collaborative group activity on infinite geometric series.
It contains a total of 60 problems and consists of 7 sections. In each section each member of a group has his own problem(s) to solve as the problems of the partners are similar.
In the 1st section partners have to write given series in summation notation.
In the 2th section each partner has given three series (two of them are in summation notation) and is asked to find the sum of each.
3th section: Students have to find the common ration of the infinite geometric series with the given sum and first term.
4th section: Students have to find the first term of the infinite geometric series with the given sum and common ratio.
5th section: Each member of a group is given four series (in summation notation) and has to determine which of them converge and to give the value of each convergent series.
6th section: Students have to convert repeating decimals to fractional form.
7th section: Students are given geometry problems to solve by use of a geometric series.
This activity may turn into competition between groups.
The product can be also used as four different forms of independent practice, extra practice, enrichment and homework assignment.
Student recording sheet and answer keys are included.
This is an engaging and collaborative partner activity for sketching graphs of polynomials. There are eight sections as in each section the problems of the partners are similar (problem A1 is similar to problem B1, problem A2 is similar to problem B2, etc). Partners are asked to sketch the graph of each polynomial function given and compare the graphs of each pair corresponding polynomials. They will find out that the shapes of the graphs A1 and B1 are similar, so are the shapes of the graphs A2 and B2 and so on. Partners can be given directions also to factor and compare the factored forms of each two corresponding polynomials and make conclusions. Thus they will verify that the sign of the leading coefficient, the number and multiplicity of the zeros of polynomials are determining for the shape of their graphs.
There are provided coordinates grids where each axis are labeled using an appropriate scale as dictated by the problem so the sketching to become easier.
These are 14 practice pages on geometric sequences. Students will use the explicit formula and the formula for the sum of the first n terms.
➤ Using the explicit formula students will have to find
the nth term (problems Level 1)
the first term (problems Level 1)
the common ratio (Level 1)
the number of terms (Level 1)
the first term and the common ratio solving systems of two equations (Level 2)
➤ Using the formula for the sum of the first nth terms students will have to find
the sum of the first nth terms (problems Level 1)
the first term and Sn (Level 1)
the common ratio and Sn (Level 1)
the number of terms and Sn (Level 1)
➣ When given Sn (problems level 2) students will have to calculate
n and r
the nth term and r
n and nth term
the first term and r
the first and nth terms
n and first term
The practice sheets can be used for independent and extra practice, enrichment, as a group activity( groups of 2, 3 and/or 4), homework and even as an assessment.
Answer keys are included.
Students will use the power, quotient and power rules of exponents to find the value of each of 10 exponential expressions. The problems are challenging and include negative bases of the exponents. Students search for their answers consecutively in a table whose cells contain a numbers and a word to find an aphorism.
Student recording sheet and answer keys are included.