📌 Week 6| Choice Board

What is the Choice Board? 

This assignment gives you the freedom to select which activities you want to complete this week to show off your math skills!   

• This Choice Board assignment has a total of 9 activities that you can pick from.  
• Your goal is to complete at least 4 of the 9 activities by the end of the week.   
• Be sure to complete at least one choice with the brain symbol (🧠) and one choice with the muscle symbol (💪) beside it each week.
• On Monday, simply choose the Submit Assignment button, on Tuesday through Thursday, choose Re-Submit Assignment.  

For help submitting Choice Board Assignments, go to the Classroom Expectations and Organization page.

Choices for this Week:

💪Choice #1:  Solving Equations

^{Assignment Standard: A-REI.A
Source: Illustrative Mathematics}

Directions:

Here is a method for solving the equation.

Does the method produce the correct solution to the equation? Explain how you know.

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

🧠Choice #2:  Visual Patterns

^{Source: Visualpatterns.org}

1. 1. How do you see the pattern growing or changing?
   2. What does figure 10 look like?
   3. How many squares are in figure 43?
   4. Write an equation to express this pattern.

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

📌Choice #3:  Solving Equations

^{Assignment Standard: A-REI.B
Source: Illustrative Mathematics}

Directions:

What are the solutions to the equation ?

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

🧠Choice #4:  Solving Equations

^{Assignment Standard: A-REI.4
Source: Illustrative Mathematics}

Directions:

Janice would like to have $40,000 to help pay for college in 8 years. Currently, she has $1,000. What interest rate, when compounded yearly, would help her reach her goal?

1. 1. What type of function would best model this situation? Explain how you know and write the general form of this function.
   2. If y represents the amount of money and x represents the number of years after today, find an equation that models Janice’s financial situation. What interest rate does she need to earn?
   3. Janice’s friend Sarah starts with $7,800 and wants to have $18,400  twenty years from now. What interest rate does she need (compounded yearly)?
   4. Is Janice’s goal or Sarah’s goal more realistic? Justify your response.

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

📌 Choice #5:  Math Mindset

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Directions:

First, watch the video below titled “Strategies for Learning Mathematics".

Next, write about what you heard in the video and describe some of the strategies you use or have learned in math.

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

📌Choice #6:  Solving Equations

^{Assignment Standard: A-REI.3
Source: Illustrative Mathematics}

Directions:

Solve each of the following equations for x.

a. 

b. 

c.

d. 

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

🧠Choice #7:  Trinomials

^{Assignment Standard: A-SSE.A
Source: Illustrative Mathematics}

Directions:

Explain how you could tell whether is a perfect square trinomial.

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

💪Choice #8:  Inverse Functions

^{Assignment Standard: F-BF.4
Source: Illustrative Mathematics}

Directions:

Find the inverse functions.

a. 

b. 

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.  

💪Choice #9:  Triangles

^{Assignment Standard: F-TF.2
Source: EngageNY}

Directions:

The vertices of have coordinates A(0,0), B(4,3), and C(4,0).  The verticies of  are A(0,0), D(3,4), and E(3,0).

Argue that is a right triangle.

Submission: 

You can share your thinking each day by typing a response, taking a picture of your work, or recording yourself.