Rainbow Parabolas

Have you or your students ever wondered how a graphing calculator is programmed? Well in this festive lesson “Rainbow Parabolas” (inspired by amazing work of Ontario educators Lisa Ann Floyd, George Gadanidis, and Jeff Cummings) you’ll code your first graphing calculator and work to apply your own magical transformation knowledge! Idea taken from this Tweet…

How Safe is Safe?

If your students are like ours, they’re hungry to get as many applications of money in math class as possible?  Let’s feed this hunger and help them grow in their financial literacy!  In this lesson, students will explore exponential decay through the lens of inflation and the future value of $1000. P.S. Certainly this is…

The Legend of the Chessboard

Do you want to try a text based coding lesson in your math class?  We’ve found the “Legend of the Chessboard” lesson to be a fun and manageable transition for kids while learning arithmetic and geometry sequences. Project Goal: Students will understand the power of exponential growth and be able to write programs that allow…