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#3 Connecting Functions To Algebra

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People in intersecting line formation on grass. Caption. Students move outside and then create a human graph.

Provides middle school math teachers with classroom activities to help students understand functions, a skill necessary for algebra. Features a strategy that will help students make the connection from the concrete to the abstract. The activity, Algebra Walk, starts the students in the classroom working with an equation to generate ordered pairs. Students then move outside and create a human graph. The Algebra Walk activity helps students with XY or Cartesian graphs. Explains how to make the manipulatives for this activity.

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    Anonymous (West Hartford, CT)
    July 6th, 2015 at 08:17 AM

    Great review for students to gain an understanding of algebraic concepts.